Liverpool; Tuesday, 13 April, 2010
Unfortunately, when I got there I discovered that they weren’t taking individual visitors today as they had group bookings, despite their website saying they were open for individual tours! So instead I walked the short distance, thankfully back down hill, to Edge Hill station, through a particularly unpleasant bit of Liverpool.
From Edge Hill I brought a one day ticket and decided, as it was quite sunny, to head out to the coast and have a look at what the Merseyside seaside looked like.
First stop was Southport on the Liverpool side of the Mersey, with its long pier stretching out into what can only be described as mud flats. At no point did I actually see the sea, there was something that could have been sea in the distance, but I wasn’t 100% certain. The pier had seen better days, and it took almost as long to catch the tram up the pier back to the land end as it did to walk down in the first place.
Slightly disappointed with Southport I wandered back to the station to catch the train back into Liverpool. Having arrived back in Liverpool I caught the bus through the Mersey Tunnel to New Brighton on the Wirral side of the Mersey.
I didn’t stay long, if I thought Southport was a little down at heals then it was nothing compared to New Brighton. I think Southport might have had a heyday that it could look back on with rose tinted spectacles. I don’t think New Brighton ever had a heyday.
I caught the train back from New Brighton into town and went for an earlyish dinner down by the Albert Dock, thankful for the first time today that I had made a good decision, as I was the last person who was able to wander into the restaurant and get a seat straight away, before a massive queue started to build up.
After dinner I had a longer wander around the city centre, taking in the key sites around the Cavern club before heading back to the hotel for a good nights sleep.
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