AnglOrony

Found myself in a peachy suburb of West Derby, 20 minutes from the city centre on bus(y) Liverpool roads. Back in time, it has been far more of importance before even the Town itself emerged. Worth mentioning, the term 'derby' - in horse racing (races restricted to three-year-olds) - comes from the 12th Earl of Derby , who inaugurated the practice in 1780. He himself, his ancestors and descendants, lived in a nearby Croxteth Hall . Aintree's Grand National is few miles up north. First, I headed to the suggested Roman site on a Castlesite street but there is nothing there apart from a small public park: St Mary CoE church overlooking Castlesite What the little village centre  has to offer  - a short span of a street, named waywardly yet appropriately - West Derby Village -  I was about to find out. More then Wikipedia says.  An obelisque-like building of a church, a primary school: Meadow Lane Primary School Church? Chapel? Victorian wate...

Every now and then Liverpool waterfront fills with fun-fairs. It is a chance to get kids going nuts or infatuate your 'inner child'. A photo-story. Large cruisers at the landing stage regularly bring tourists into the city.

Liverpool Waterfront had served a pivotal role as the gateway to the New World for millions of people at the turn of 19th and 20th century. White Star Line and Cunard Line were based at the port serving mass migration from Europe to America of which the most famous case is Titanic - Liverpool being its registry port. This part of Liverpool is UNESCO's World Heritage Site. The Three Graces Encompassing Liverpool's waterfront, are the three buildings symbolizing the glory and importance which the second city in the British Empire (after London) could easily afford. They are one of the first structures in the world to be built using reinforced concrete; all are cladded in Portland Stone. They offer the most outstanding views and are the most photographed buildings in Liverpool. Royal Liver Building (1911) erected for the Royal Liver Assurance group, remained its head office until 2011. The building was considered of radical design at the time, and even impossi...

Baltic Triangle is a creative development area, near Liverpool city centre, with a number of digital, food and drink and pop culture businesses, street art, and popular hipster venues. The idea started a few years ago as Independent Liverpool , a blog for a bit of fun to promote local ventures. From there, a membership card came with local currency, occasional food and drink festival, and it eventually turned the empty and derelict sites of the Baltic triangle into one of Liverpool’s most visited places.  Baltic Creative on 49 Jamaica Street, established in 2009, is the epicentre for supporting the area to thrive (upper left). Very Local Radio Station (upper right). The name Baltic Triangle most probably comes from Liverpool links as a port to the Baltic countries such as Sweden, Denmark, Poland where from timber was exported and stored here in the vast warehouses , of which remains are now converted into flats. (There is a Scandinavian church while approaching the area al...

The City of London is steeped deep in both, history and modernity. A wondrous entity where trade and money , and money trading , have played a major role in the financial power the city has created over the world.  It is a sovereign district , more like a state within a state , with own jurisdiction, police, rules and rituals dating back to the most ancient times.  Medieval London had two main districts - the City of London , where ordinary busy life had been run, and the City of Westminster , the seat of power - monarchy and government - now also the cultural West End .  Over time the ordinary citizens moved outwards from the City , creating all the adjacent London boroughs. The City has now only a few thousand residents but almost a million people travel here for work in the big financial institutions and services.  The eastern old part of the City is beaming with the " Ye olde " memoirs of the Merry Old England - the legendary medieval period, praised in...