Been away over Christmas, in the UK this time, and on Boxing Day me and Mrs Ref spent some time in Liverpool, lovely day as we walked along the Mersey river front. I have often wondered why Liverpool has retained so many of it's magnificent buildings in the city centre, whereas Hull lost so many beautiful structures during WW2. Liverpool was a major port, albeit on the western side of the country, and some of those buildings are huge structures, it's sad from a Hull lads perspective that Hull suffered as it did.
Liverpool was bombed. 3 times as many people were killed in Liverpool than in Hull. There were still bomb sites with scruffy urchins playing on them when there were film crews swarming all over Liverpool in the early 1960s because of Beatlemania. Maybe they were luckier regarding which buildings were hit or rebuilt better.
Watched a bit of 'A Hard's Day Night' the other day. Of its time of course, but a decent film. I bet Wilfred Bramble would have relished working so close to the Fab 4
I wasn't over impressed with the Liverpool waterfront to be honest, Albert Dock isn't that great, maritime museum was OK, the Mersey itself is ridiculously narrow, and I'm not keen on the ****ing Beatles.
And yet they get more visitors than us for some reason. Despite us having two world famous rugby clubs and Johnny Pat and The Aces.
You forgot to add that we have the best run football club in the country, unlike their two struggling teams.
I wasn't comparing Liverpool to us, I just commented on their waterfront area, I was more interested in what went on across the street to the Cavern in Eric's, more interested in the birth of casual culture on the Ani Road end than YNWA and the Kop, more Toxteth and the Scotty Road than Dicky Lewis and Bread, more to Liverpool than the tourist traps.
A while since I was in Liverpool but there is more going on around their waterfront area. They have improved it vastly. Still don't like the place though.
It probably was. Apart from bomb damage to the docks there was massive devastation caused by a munitions ship exploding during a raid. There will be pictures on the internet. All over Europe far more badly damaged cities were rebuilt. And a lot better and more quickly. Went to Hamburg in 1963. 50,000 killed in one raid, 80% of the city destroyed, destroyed not damaged, 750,000 made homeless. No sign of there being a war. Same in Bremen, another city that was flattened. They had painstakingly rebuilt old buildings in the centre using old tapestries and pictures to reassemble them like a giant jigsaw. Went to Liverpool the year before and there were bomb ites and rubble all over, though some was caused by slum clearances, and still signs of damage and empty spaces in Hull. You can be lucky with bomb damage. Look at Cologne. Flattened in the first 1,000 bomber raid, but the massive cathedral was unscathed as a bomb hit it but didn't explode, whilst every other building round it, along with the whole of the city cehtre and railway station were reduced to rubble.
It's all you ever talk about. This place is better than Hull, that place is better than Hull, the bridge isn't in Hull it's in the East Riding...ad nauseam... As I said your'e obsessed, a scratched record?
As opposed to myopic folk who constantly go on about how better Hull is than other places and how crap they are?
Funny you should mention that, they had, not sure about now, a yellow amphibious bus, and yes you could go on a tour of Liverpool in it and then float in one of the docks. The Queen actually took that journey a while back, not sure how long ago, and just after her visit one of the yellow amphibian vehicles sank in the dock, no one was hurt I think, and no I didn't bother. But as Originalminority stated there is a lot more to Liverpool than the Mersey sound, important as it is in the music history, I've always like architecture and as I've got older even more so. In Liverpool there is a space ship like Cathedral which I went to on a previous visit, no service was in progress so you were allowed in, modern it may be the inside was magnificent. Pictures of the said bus and Cathedral.
I wasn't talking about "other folk", I was pointing out your obsession with slating Hull. Day in, day out. It's very nearly all you ever say on here and it's bloody ridiculous. What the ****???
