The Casbah Coffee Club was a rock and roll music venue in the West Derby area of Liverpool, England, that operated from 1959 to 1962. Started by Mona Best in the cellar of the family home,[1] the Casbah was planned as a members-only club for her sons Pete and Rory and their friends, to meet …
The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Anglican parish church of Liverpool. The site is said to have been a place of worship since at least 1257. The church is situated close to the River Mersey near the Pier Head. The Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas is the Anglican parish …
The Georgian House (grid reference ST581728) is a historic building at 7 Great George Street, Bristol, England. It was originally built around 1790 for a wealthy sugar merchant and is now furnished and displayed as a typical late 18th century town house. The period house museum includes a drawing room, eating room, study, kitchen, laundry …
Percy Bysshe Shelley (/b??/ (About this soundlisten) BISH; 4 August 1792 ? 8 July 1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets, who is regarded by some as among the finest lyric and philosophical poets in the English language, and one of the most influential. A radical in his poetry as well as in …
This magnificent 235 acre park is a Grade 1 historic park in the Sefton Park district of Liverpool. It is a Green Flag and Green Heritage awarded site with beautiful features and monuments. An angling permit is required if fishing in the boating lake. The site of the park was once within the boundaries of …
Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Built in 1824 and much modified in the 1880s, it is now a museum and art gallery which contains the collection of George Holt, a shipping-line owner and former resident, in its original setting. Sudley House is a historic house in Aigburth, Liverpool, England. Built …
Tickets for Magical Mystery Tour & Cavern Club Visit the childhood homes of The Beatles Visit Strawberry Fields Penny Lane The Cavern Club and lots of other Beatles destinations This is a great tour for any The Beatles fans. You can see their childhood homes, Strawberry Fields, Penny and The Cavern Club. For full ticket …
Tickets for Shakespeare’s Globe: Guided Tour. One of our BESTSELLERS. What’s Included Admission to the Shakespeare’s Globe Globe Theatre Guided Tour Shakespeare’s Globe is a world-renowned performing arts centre. Given it’s history, its also a cultural attraction and education centre. Shakespeare’s Globe is home to the Globe Theatre and Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. It was founded …
The Former Everard’s Printing Works (grid reference ST588730) is at 37-38 Broad Street in Bristol, England. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. It was built in 1900 by Henry Williams, with the Pre-Raphaelite art nouveau style facade by William Neatby, who was the chief designer for Doulton and Co.,as the main …
Woodhenge is an atmospheric Neolithic site close to Stonehenge. With suggestions that it was built about 2300 BC, it was originally believed to be the remains of a large burial mound, surrounded by a bank and ditch almost completely destroyed by ploughing. Aerial photography detected rings of dark spots in a crop of wheat, and …
Cottage. 1812. By John Nash and George Repton. For JS Harford. Random rubble, brick lateral stacks and a stone tile hipped roof. Single-depth plan. Picturesque style. Single-storey and attic; 1-window range. The front has a tall gabled open porch with a pointed-arched doorway to a plank door, right-hand service block and a left-hand pent over …
The Williamson Tunnels are a series of extensive subterranean excavations, of unknown purpose, in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England. They were created under the direction of tobacco merchant, landowner and philanthropist Joseph Williamson between 1810 and 1840. The Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre provides an insight into the fascinating underground world created by Joseph …
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, officially known as the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, is the seat of the Archbishop of Liverpool and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool in Liverpool, England.The Grade II* Metropolitan Cathedral is one of Liverpool’s many listed buildings. The cathedral’s architect, Frederick Gibberd, was the winner of …
St Paul’s Cross (alternative spellings ? “Powles Crosse”) was a preaching cross and open-air pulpit in the grounds of Old St Paul’s Cathedral, City of London. It was the most important public pulpit in Tudor and early Stuart England, and many of the most important statements on the political and religious changes brought by the …
Radio City Tower is a radio and observation tower in Liverpool, England, built in 1969 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II. It was designed by James A. Roberts Associates in Birmingham. It is 138 metres tall, and is the second tallest free-standing building in Liverpool and the 32nd tallest in the United Kingdom. Near the …
After more than a hundred years of searching by archaeologists, London’s Roman Amphitheatre was finally rediscovered in 1988 hidden beneath Guildhall Yard. It was a quite surprising discovery as the amphitheatre was found within the old Roman city walls, whereas the majority of ancient amphitheatres were located on the outside. It was built around AD70 …
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London. One of the United Kingdom’s most treasured and distinctive buildings, it is a registered charity held in trust for the nation, as it receives no public or government funding. It can seat 5,267. Since the hall’s opening by Queen …
Princes Road Synagogue, located in Toxteth, Liverpool in England, is the home of the Liverpool Old Hebrew Congregation. It was founded in the late 1860s, designed by William James Audsley and George Ashdown Audsley and consecrated on 2 September 1874. It is widely regarded as the finest example of the Moorish Revival style of synagogue …
Apsley House is the London townhouse of the Dukes of Wellington. It stands alone at Hyde Park Corner, on the south-east corner of Hyde Park, facing south towards the busy traffic roundabout in the centre of which stands the Wellington Arch. It is a Grade I listed building. It is sometimes referred to as the?Wellington …
The Merseyside Maritime Museum is a museum based in the city of Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK. It is part of National Museums Liverpool and an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. It opened for a trial season in 1980 before fully opening in 1984 and expanding in 1986. The museum occupies …
Tickets for The Beatles Story. What’s Included Entry to the Beatles Story (Exhibition, Discovery Zone, Fab4 Store, Fab4 Cafe) Audio guide in 11 languages Visiting the UNESCO World Heritage Site at the Albert Dock, where you can learn all about the Fab Four’s journey from their hometown of Liverpool to global stardom! You will see …
The Royal Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses in Liverpool, England. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick, it was opened in 1846, and was the first structure in Britain to be built from cast iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. At the time of its construction the Albert …
Birkenhead Priory is in Priory Street, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England. It is the oldest standing building on Merseyside. The remains of the priory are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and it is a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The Priory was founded about 1150 by Hamon de Masci, …
180 Ebury Street in the Belgravia district of London was the home of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family from 5 August 1764 to 24 September 1764 during the Mozart family’s grand tour of Europe. The house was built in the early to mid-18th century as part of a terrace. Mozart composed his …
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