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£1 Welcome to Liverpool Heritage Open Month! Determined Heritage Open Days are managed nationally by to build on the Heritage Open Days National Partnership the success and funded by English Heritage. of Heritage Heritage Open Month could never happen Open Days, without the enthusiasm and expertise of local celebrating people. Across England thousands of volunteers England’s will open their properties, organise activities fantastic and events and share their knowledge. To architecture everyone in Liverpool who has contributed and heritage, Liverpool is once to the fantastic 2013 Heritage Open Month again extending its cultural heritage programme we would like to say thank you. programme throughout September. The information contained in this booklet was In 2013 over 100 venues and correct at the time of print but may be subject organisations across the city are to change. involved in this year’s programme and buildings of a variety of architectural Further events may have also been added style and function will open their to the programme. Full details of the doors offering a once-a-year chance to Heritage Open Month programme and discover hidden treasures and enjoy a up to date information can be viewed on wide range of tours, and participate in VisitLiverpool.com/heritageopenmonth events bringing history alive. or call 0151 233 2008. For the national One of the attractions new to 2013 Heritage Open Days programme please is the Albany Building, former cotton go to broker’s meeting place with its stunning www.heritageopendays.org.uk cast iron work, open air staircase. or call 0207 553 9290 There is something to delight everyone during Heritage Open Month with new ways to experience the heritage of Liverpool for all the family. Join us in celebrating Liverpool’s outstanding universal value as a World Heritage Site, ‘a supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain’s greatest global influence’ and use this programme to help you plan your visit and explore the city. 2 CONTENTS World Heritage Site and Map 6 Grand Designs 10 Innovation and Industry 17 Great Outdoors, Tours and Trails 23 Sacred Sites 27 WHY NOT STAY OVER? There is so much to see throughout Liverpool Heritage Open Month that a day is simply not enough. Look on VisitLiverpool.com for a full list of places to stay and don’t forget, it costs less to stay midweek! Venues throughout Liverpool City Region are taking part in Heritage Open Days. Please also see: VisitWirral.com VisitStHelens.com VisitSouthport.com VisitHalton.com VisitLiverpool.com To help you plan your journey during Heritage Open Month contact Traveline Liverpool Heritage Month is brought to you in partnership with 3 Front cover: Liverpool Town Hall Back cover: Central Library Experience the heritage of Liverpool all year round! Although Heritage Open only group of museums in England with national status at World Museum Liverpool and the Walker Art Gallery, Month is Liverpool’s outside London. you can see collections of international importance with annual highlight the city The best place to start any journey of discovery about the ‘finest neoclassical building in the world’; St. George’s is alive with Heritage the city is the Museum of Liverpool, located in a striking Hall, at its heart. every day of the year. modern building at the Pier Head. Visitors can explore Further up the hill you will find the city’s Georgian From the neo-classical how the port, its people, their creative and sporting Quarter starting at Hope Street and Rodney Street with splendour of St. George’s history have shaped the city. the the city’s two cathedrals. Hall to the Tudor magic of Speke Hall through the The Merseyside Maritime Museum, is located a few Behind the Metropolitan Cathedral is the Victoria Georgian terraces of Rodney & Hope Streets, there is minutes’ walk away detailing Liverpool’s rise to the Gallery & Museum housed in an Alfred Waterhouse an outstanding architectural gem from every important second city of the British Empire with the International building from which the term Red Brick University period of British architecture. Liverpool’s tradition of Slavery Galleries detailing the shocking legacy of that is derived. innovation and civic pride has left a cityscape like no period. Slightly off the beaten track there is also the National other, richly deserving of its UNESCO World Heritage For unique subterranean views of Liverpool you can Trust’s ‘The Hardmans’ House’; the former home and Site status with collections of art and artefacts to match explore the fascinating Williamson Tunnels that roam studios of prolific local photographer anything in Europe. beneath the city, visit the remains of Liverpool’s Old E. Chambré Hardman. By far the grandest way to arrive in Liverpool is by the Dock from 1715 and be submerged into industrial In between these two areas lie Ropewalks & Chinatown. world famous Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey’. Set sail on the engineering magnificence with the Mersey Tunnel Tours. Liverpool is home to the oldest Chinese community in hourly River Explorer Cruise which runs every day or The astounding collection of neo-classical civic buildings why not join the popular Manchester Ship Canal Cruise in the St. George’s Quarter is an absolute must-see and, with regular summer and autumn departures. Liverpool is home to the largest group of Grade I listed buildings in the country (at the Albert Dock), the 4 Europe. This is celebrated by the beautiful ornate arch at For heritage discoveries that will surprise and delight, in its gateway, which is the largest of its kind outside China. addition to visiting the publicly open attractions simply Ropewalks is the former rope making district, now take a walk around The Pier Head and Commercial converted into a collection of bars, restaurants creative Districts to find beautiful buildings and spaces such as businesses and independent shops. India Buildings, Oriel Chambers and Exchange flags. When the hub of the city gets too much you can escape With so much on offer in this vibrant city, the only thing to the natural serenity of one of Liverpool’s ten listed to do is come and discoverLiverpool for yourself. parks. Outside the city centre, Liverpool is also home to two contrasting stately homes. Speke Hall, owned by the National Trust is an Elizabethan gem with Croxteth Hall & Country Park, the former home of the Earls of Sefton, an outstanding example of a working Edwardian country estate complete with walled garden and home farm. 5 IT’S LIVERPOOL WORLD HERITAGE CITY Liverpool was made a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2004 as the “supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain’s greatest global influence”. It recognises Liverpool’s outstanding universal value and the impact it has made upon mankind as a whole. Liverpool City Council and its partners are committed to protecting the site yet wish to encourage the city to grow and expand; a careful balance between conservation and regeneration. liverpoolworldheritage.com 6 6 The site consists of six areas: The commercial district centred on CASTLE STREET overlays The PIER HEAD, the point of Liverpool’s seven medieval streets. departure of millions of migrants It is still home to many banks, from Europe to America and the shipping-line headquarters, produce rest of the world in the 19th and exchanges and warehouses, as well 20th centuries. It dates back to the as the city’s Town Hall. Liverpool is 18th century, when the city played built on trade and this is the area a big part in the Transatlantic Slave where business was historically Trade. conducted. WILLIAM BROWN STREET The ALBERT DOCK, and is the historic cultural quarter STANLEY DOCK include vast and was endowed in the 19th warehouses and historic docks. century by Liverpool’s mercantile The scale and the variety of classes. Lime Street Station, an commodities that were stored in early addition to the world’s first them and then shipped throughout passenger railway line became the world, demonstrate the might the major gateway for arrivals. Its of Liverpool’s commercial power. frontage has been restored and a stunning piazza in front of the The original “Old Dock” was station has opened up views of opened in 1715 and marked the St. George’s Hall. rise of the city as a port. Part of it can still be seen as an excavation LOWER DUKE STREET is below the Liverpool ONE retail part of the RopeWalks area, which development. served the historic docks during the 18th century. It is an area of early merchant’s houses and warehouses, laid out on long straight streets, formerly used for the making of rope. 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