AnglOrony

This walk takes around one hour. So if you have only a wee hour, this is what we would recommend - for the city centre essential tour and a very quick walk. Starting and finishing point - Liverpool Lime Street Station . Lime Street Station  is the place where the greatest revolution in transport took place, and it is the oldest railway station still in use in the world. Opened in 1836, a year before Queen Victoria started her long rule, it served first railway passengers ever. The line linked Liverpool and Manchester, the first industrial city in the world. First post mail in the world was sent by train from Lime Street. Its vast iron and glass arched roof and massive red columns are the characteristics of the station and mark the unique construction methods developed at the start of the Industrial Revolution . One of the first locomotives to be used at that time, the Lion , is on display in the Museum of Liverpool . Next to the station is the grand building of a Victoria

The Fabric District area near Liverpool Lime Street Station is on the totally contrary path to the tourists' destinations. Mind you, many Liverpooldians are oblivious to the existence of this part of the city centre as well, and ignorant to the idea that the biggest maker of the Police and Royal Navy hats  in the UK is located here, still a family-owned business, Try & Lilly - along with the dressmaker studio, Thelma Madine, who participated her works in the TV show - My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. There has been a major regeneration going on for some years now, the area gets busier and it's worth a visit. You need to take right and behind Lime Street Station instead of going left or ahead as the crowds do. A truly local spirit of Liverpool past lives there. Going through London Road first, towards the Monument Place Market it is where local residents, students, Royal Hospital workers tend to make their day-to-day shopping and living. Instantly you will submerge yourself in a