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Join in the fun with Wallace & Gromit at the latest Spaceport exhibition. Visit Wallace’s workshop. Check out their film sets. You can even design your own alien! Take the Mersey from to Spaceport at , Wirral. For more details visit www.spaceport.org.uk or call 0151 330 1566

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Spaceport and Mersey are owned and operated by Supported by CityCentral - the heartbeat of www.citycentralbid.com welcome to liverpool discovers! I’m delighted Liverpool is staging another huge public art programme across the city. It’s a wonderful opportunity for residents and visitors, young and old, to get involved and be inspired by the many fantastic pieces of work Liverpool has been home to many ‘great’ people - enough to adorn every which are on display. street lamp from to . The ‘Greats’ - designed and painted by local artists In previous years, the and Penguin trails really captured and lining two city centre streets - will give you a glimpse of some of these people past and the hearts and minds of the hundreds of thousands of visitors who came present and the diverse nature of their achievements. to the city and I’m positive Liverpool Discovers will do the same. MEL C The fun and informative installations will recreate some WHITECHAPEL WILLIAM BROWN ST of Liverpool’s greatest stories and I’m sure everyone will (1974- ) Musician, ex-Spice Girl GEORGE MELLY uncover some hidden gems about the city they never knew Liverpool Discovers is produced by & actress Jean Alexander before. Wild in Art - world-leaders in public art (1926-2007) Jazz & Blues As voted for by Liverpool ECHO readers (1926- ) Actress & original ‘Curler musician & surrealist Artist: Sarah Ryan Queen’ Liverpool has always been a city of talented musicians, and education projects that promote Artist: Candida Boyes CILLA BLACK Artist: Nicola McGovern great sportsmen and women, world class artists and many creativity, citizenship and conservation; TOM BAKER Bessie Braddock others who have contributed to our rich heritage. Liverpool in association with Liverpool Lantern (1943- ) Chart topping singer & (1934- ) Actor & fourth Doctor Discovers opens the doors to all of this and gives people a Company - an artist-led organisation TV presenter (1899-1970) MP & social reformer Who from 1974-81 magical glimpse into the things that make this city so unique. specialising in thought-provoking, large- Artist: Sarah Jane Richards Artist: Becka Griffin scale, celebratory events. Artist: Jo Daly LIZZIE CHRISTIAN Kitty Wilkinson Lastly, a huge thank you to the artists, sponsors, landowners KEN DODD www.wildinart.co.uk (1898-1977) Local legend and (1785-1860) Wash house & public and others who have made this event happen. www.liverpoollanterncompany.co.uk (1927- ) Record breaking street flower seller for 60 years health pioneer comedian & singer Artist: Sarah Jane Richards Artist: Sarah Ryan Artist: Michael Haselden Bill Shankly Eleanor Rathbone Councillor Joe Anderson WILLY RUSSELL (1913-81) Legendary Liverpool (1872–1946) MP, human rights & Leader, (1947- ) Award winning FC manager from 1959-74 child welfare campaigner playwright & composer Artist: Gill Smith Artist: Linda Cattrall Artist: Sarah Broadfoot Dixie Dean George Stubbs JOHN LENNON (1907-1980) Everton FC’s (1724-1806) Celebrated equine (1940-80) Musician, Beatle & greatest goal scorer artist peace campaigner Artist: Mike Snowdon Artist: Laura Bolton As voted for by Liverpool ECHO readers John Conteh Frank Hornby Artist: Paul McKay (1951- ) World Light (1863-1936) Inventor of Meccano, Heavyweight Champion from Dinky Toys & model railways 1974-78 Artist: Christopher Murray Artist: Anna Ketskemety John Archer Beth Tweddle (1863-1932) Britian’s first black (1985- ) Gymnastics Triple Mayor in 1913 World Champion Artist: Karl Eversley Artist: Anna Ketskemety Arthur Dooley (1929-1994) Ship welder turned acclaimed sculptor Artist: Trevor Skempton William Roscoe (1753-1831) MP, botanist, poet & anti-slavery campaigner Artist: Amanda Oliphant Seth Davy & His In Association with Dancing Doll (-1902) Celebrated West Indian sailor & street entertainer Artist: Gill Smith Music open spaces & Arts & architecture Echoes & Whispers Entertainment mythophones Artist: Andy McKeown SoundING OUT Artists: Dave Young & Dan Music is the heart-beat of Liverpool, LIVERPOOL Fox leading the world in having produced Artist: Matthew Sansom Transport Explore Liverpool’s ‘secret gardens’ and share more No 1 hit singles than any other city (source: Guinness Book of World Records). Giant ‘sound mirrors’ tempt Stephenson’s their unknown secrets, fantastical facts, tall viewers to listen to the city through the Sing-along with the UK’s first ever musical lamp- Destinator tales, myths and poems through a series of artwork, which amplifies the continual flowing posts as this interactive new media sound installation curious metallic ‘Mythophones’. Press a button soundscape of the city and its inhabitants. Artist: Aragorn Horner and listen as unknown stories and facts about transforms Thomas Steers Way into a whispering Making its inaugural journey each sculpture’s unique location are revealed. gallery of facts, words, places, stories, people, songs This artwork invites you to entertain and play, at the Rainhill Trials in 1829, and music that have come to define Liverpool. bounce your own stories, jokes or poems off Locations: Our Lady & St Nicholas the sound mirror, or recite extracts from the George Stephenson’s ‘Rocket’ was the world’s Visit www.echoesandwhispers.com to participate in Churchyard; St James’ Garden; St Luke’s films, books and entertainers of Liverpool, first modern passenger locomotive. It changed this dynamic installation. Garden; Bluecoat Gallery Garden, LJMU Art & whose words are etched on the surrounding the world forever, but this revolutionary invention Design Academy Garden Location: Thomas Steers Way, caused deep suspicion for many Victorians. ground. With over 160 shops, bars and restaurants, Liverpool ONE is a What fate might befall them when travelling in Location: St James’ Mount, Anglican Science & must-visit destination in the heart of the city. Liverpool ONE is this new way? Could Stephenson have put their proudly supporting Liverpool Discovers and is hosting the music- Cathedral minds at rest with this fantastical machine? Technology themed art installation, which is sure to be a talking point in a city with such a strong and proud musical heritage. Step inside, crank the handle and allow your Heaven & Earth destiny to be revealed! www.liverpool-one.com Artist: Andy Plant Health: Location: Lime Street Station Sport Gaze into the stars with this X Ray Ted Golf Bug Merseytravel is proudly supporting Liverpool Discovers. humorous interactive sculpture dedicated to the The Runner We have a great network of buses, trains and ferries to get city’s astrophysics genius Jeremiah Horrocks. Artist: Joe Rush you around the Trail. The CityLink network of buses around Artist: Faith Bebbington the City Centre will help you get to many of the artworks. Born in Toxteth in 1617 and living to just 22, Using found objects, For help in planning your journey by public transport, call Jeremiah was the first to record the Transit of Liverpool is renowned globally flash light and recycled Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 or visit Venus in 1639, pioneered astronomy in an age for its football prowess and materials, this artwork combines two of the www.merseytravel.gov.uk of ‘witchcraft and alchemy’ and was hailed as a glorious Grand National. But many medical discoveries of international ‘giant’ by Isaac Newton. Enjoy a short animation did you know that Liverpool held an annual Grand significance carried out in Liverpool. In 1896, through the giant telescope and learn about other Olympic Festival devised by John Hulley and Nobel Prize-winning Charles Barkla was the Social Justice & facets of this incredible man’s achievements. Charles Melly between 1862 to 1867 on which the first to use x-ray photography to reveal a bullet Radicals first modern Olympiad in Athens was based? This Location: Pier Head, the Waterfront in a young boy’s wrist. Another breakthrough precariously balanced sculptural sequence is a event was made in 1902 at Liverpool’s School Mary Bamber – A fitting celebration of the awesome achievements of Revolutionary of Tropical Medicine (the world’s first such Trade & Commerce Liverpool’s past and present Olympiads and puts us school) by Nobel Prize winner Ronald Ross, Woman in fine form for more successes in 2012. Sugar & chain who discovered that malaria is transmitted Artists: Carrie Reichardt & Nick Reynolds Location: King-Park, (car park) Kings Dock Street to humans by mosquitoes. Both of these An informative mosaic figure of suffragette Artist: Andy Hazell ground-breaking discoveries changed the and social revolutionary Mary Bamber - once This bitter-sweet artwork Maritime methods of medical diagnosis forever. described by Sylvia Pankhurst as the ‘finest, references the historical links Fish & Ships Location: Lyceum Place, Bold Street fighting platform speaker in the country’ - reclaims between the city’s sugar industry and its reliance Artist: David Kemp The Decade of Health and Wellbeing is delighted to be the original ‘Speakers’ Corner’ on St George’s on the abominations of the Slave Trade. a sponsor of Liverpool Discovers and support the health Plateau just as she did in the early 1900s. Liverpool was home to 16 ‘sugar houses’, the This eco-friendly sculptural installation as encouraging people to take part in the Trail and learn more about their city will help achieve Draw inspiration from Mary’s achievements, have most famous of these, set up 65 years after the creature encompasses the essence of the - its their 5 ways to wellbeing which are CONNECT, BE your say and discover more about those women abolition of slavery, being the famous Tate and ACTIVE, TAKE NOTICE, KEEP LEARNING AND GIVE! who dedicated their lives to bringing justice and Lyle refinery at Love Lane. incredible sea voyages, departures, migrant arrivals www.2020healthandwellbeing.org.uk. equality to all. and its everyday comings and goings. As one of the When former Liverpool greengrocer Henry Tate UK’s busiest rivers, big ships, ferries and cruise liners Location: St George’s Plateau, Lime Street bought the patent on a method of cutting sugar share their space with fishermen, pleasure crafts and into cubes, he secured his future position as Please note: While every effort has been made to ensure With thanks to: Network Rail, Our Lady now - an increasingly diverse marine life. Watch as one of the world’s ‘Sugar Giants’, and alongside that the information is correct and accurate, Liverpool and St Nicholas Church, Anglican Cathedral, tiny passengers on board this fantastical vessel are his sharp business sense, became a renowned Discovers cannot accept responsibility in respect of errors, Parks and Gardens, The Bluecoat, Liverpool John animated by the wind and wave their greetings and omissions, cancelled events or damaged sculptures. Before Moore’s University, Merseytravel, Hilton Hotel, British patron of the arts. farewells from the portholes. you set off for any event linked to Liverpool Discovers, Waterways, King-Park, Co-operative Bank please check with the relevant organisations Location: Goree Plaza, Location: Coburg Wharf, the Marina liverpool is the home to the grand national, the most famous david yates, the director of the blockbuster harry potter movies ‘the order of steeplechase watched annually by 600 million people worldwide the phoenix’ & ‘harry potter and the half-blood prince’ was born in st.helens

this unique public art trail is directly inspired by the city’s residents who we asked to submit stories and facts in a bid to uncover the lesser known but often internationally significant events, achievements and people associated with liverpool. artists have turned these stories into works of art, some are fun, some interactive, all are thought-provoking and informative. as a guide, here is liverpool’s first illustrative tourism map offering interesting facts as you travel from one artwork to another.

this is just a glimpse of this wonderful city - there is so much more to discover, and we hope you take advantage of the broader cultural attractions on offer as you follow the trail.

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toilets parking hospital taxi rank shopmobility national rail disabled parking world heritage site nhs walk-in centre tourist information liverpool one information cruise liner terminal terminal bus & stations liverpool discovers trail

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ropewalks waterfront hope street liverpool one baltic triangle cavern quarter cultural quarter

MORE ATTRACTIONS albert dock echo arena & convention centre beatles story bluecoat cains brewery tours spaceport 19, 23 - 27 feb OTHER ATTRACTIONS 6 miles ness gardens hilbre island 5 miles 4 - 6 march wirral country park port sunlight FOLLOW THE STARS TO brimstage hall craft centre west kirby marine lake museum & 1 2 - 13 march garden village UNLOCK THE HIDDEN STORIES fort perch rock OF THIS HISTORIC BOROUGH new brighton floral pavilion 4 miles 18 - 19 march u boat story birkenhead park 25 - 27 march church farm, thurstaston 2 - 3 april lady lever art gallery 9 - 10 april

ST.HELENS NORTH WIRRAL COASTAL PARK CENTRAL

TOWN CENTRE ATTRACTIONS mash gallery theatre royal darkstar laser 4 miles the world of glass BOROUGH ATTRACTIONS the citadel arts centre ‘dream’ godfrey pilkington art gallery haydock park north west museum of road transport inglenook lavender farm kelda’s trail of discovery will (open weekends only) take her to some of wirral’s top fir tree farm st helens discovers trail & signpost attractions, check the stars above for dates!

st.helens magic are all wrapped up in three giant kaleidoscopes. See the faces of the town’s wirral Kelda, a young Viking girl that is giant in Where Stars are Made 19, 23 - 27 Feb notable sons and daughters, from George stature tours Wirral’s top visitor attractions. 4 - 6 March kelda DISCOVERS the Wirral Artists: Mike Pattison & Arts Desire Groves who invented sound for Hollywood Join her and discover with child-like wonder 11 -13 March Celebrating the town’s little-known silver- films to Harry Potter director, David Yates. Artists: Thingumajig Theatre the cultural and historical gems of this beautiful 18 - 19 March screen successes, glitz, movement and part of the region. Location: Church Square, St.Helens 25 - 27 March 1 - 3 April 9 -10 April Liverpool Heritage Audio Trail The Sporting Life - Cemetery Heritage expert Loyd Grossman takes you on Find out more about the many prominent an MP3 tour through the city’s eight centuries of individuals from sport, entertainment, politics history. and others of a certain notoriety buried at this www.modernhistory.co.uk historic cemetery. www.liverpool.gov.uk The following are independent events. Please check websites FOR Pete Wylie’s MP3 Music Tour availability AND further information. St James CemetEry Gardens Tour Pete Wylie from the Mighty Wah! takes you on an MP3 tour of Liverpool, official Capital of Pop. Tour some of Liverpool’s most haunted locations www.liverpool08.com/downloads/ under the guidance of a swashbuckling highway 2011 city of radicals Rid The World man, or terrifying vampire. It’s terribly good fun! A year-long programme of exhibitions, debates A stage play by Rob Johnson brings the events of Inside DNA, www.liverpool.gov.uk and events looking at radical Liverpool - past, 100 years ago stunningly back to life. This fascinating exhibition will help you get present and future. Visit the new banner on www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk Liverpool MP3 Museum to Museum to grips with genetics by looking at its role in Dale Street created by artist David Jacques, in Walk -THROUGHOUT- identity, health and evolution. celebration of one of the 20th century’s greatest www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk This MP3 trail provides a route through the socialist figures, Robert Tressell who inspired Liverpool Architours historical centre of Liverpool, suggesting points generations with his novel ‘The Ragged Trousered Liverpool Science Places Audio Tour of interest to stop off at along the way. Philanthropists’. He is buried in a paupers’ grave Explore the city’s finest architecture from William www.modernhistory.co.uk at what is now Rice Lane City Farm. Brown Street to the Pier Head. Discover the people, innovations and inventions that make up Liverpool’s incredible scientific www.cityofradicals.co.uk www.liverpoolarchitecture.com/tours/ Art in Revolution: Liverpool 1911 contribution to the world. Hidden Gallery www.scienceplaces.org/liverpool An exploration of a ground-breaking exhibition -FEBRUARY- Award-winning photographer Paul Berriff presents in 1911, which displayed International Post- his unique collection of unseen and candid The Mersey Tunnel Tour Impressionist artworks alongside local avant- GREAT VICTORIANS OF SEFTON PARK PART portraits of the Fab Four. garde artists. Go behind the scenes and learn how the 1 & 2 www.beatlesstory.com www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/ immense ventilation shafts work and how the Fascinating tour full of tales surrounding Victorian Tunnel itself was constructed. Visit the Tunnels The Yellow Duck Marine Maritime greats connected with Sefton Park. Part 2 www.merseytunnels.co.uk continues in March. Marvel at the famous “double tunnel” and relax Tour www.liverpool.gov.uk in the café under one of Williamson’s famous Liverpool Firsts - Downloadable A unique 1 hour amphibious city sightseeing arches. Trail tour of Liverpool’s historic waterfront, city & Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral www.williamsontunnels.com Hear about the international and national docks. Experience the ‘Whispering Arch’, free family ‘firsts’ in construction and allied fields of human www.theyellowduckmarine.co.uk The Beatles Childhood Homes activities and special child ‘Great Space’ audio endeavour associated with Liverpool. tours free with every adult. Visit the childhood homes of music legends John www.modernhistory.co.uk www.liverpoolcathedral.org Lennon and Paul McCartney. www.nationaltrust.org.uk/beatles Horror at St George’s Hall An unmissable one hour guided journey through -march- Tours of Liverpool’s Old Dock Have a heart for art! the dark, eerie cells and courtroom of the Should a piece art appear See the world’s first commercial enclosed wet awesome St George’s Hall. damaged or broken, please Memories of Gladstone dock for the first time in centuries. www.shiverpool.co.uk report it to our caring “touch-up” www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/maritime/visit/ An in depth insight into the life of William team at Liverpool Direct on Gladstone and the Isla Gladstone Conservatory. History & Nature Trail 0151 233 2008 laurence westgaph’s Slavery www.liverpool.gov.uk Explore the fascinating historic cemetery at Rice quoting its location. Remembrance Tour Lane City Farm including the Titanic Grave, The Hidden Pathways of Sefton Park Discover more about Liverpool’s role in the Slave Pirates Grave and St.Peters Stones. Discover some of the less frequented & more Trade and its Abolition. www.ricelanecityfarm.co.uk naturalised areas of Sefton Park. www.liverpool08.com/downloads/ www.liverpool.gov.uk Map by Claire Stringer, Kirsti Davies Chris Murray Holly Langley & James Munro Layout design by James Munro