Albert Docks and other Liverpool, United Kingdom Things to Do Tips

Visit the Albert Docks - great for curiosity shops and the beatle story museum. From this end of the docks there's a great view through this arch of the famous liver buildings too. A famous april fools joke was that the liver birds would have to be removed from these buildings due to lower flight paths and that Anfield and Goodison park (Liverpool and Everton football grounds) would each be given a liver bird from the buildings!

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Here's the Beatle Museum entrance in the Albert Dock complex, but for my impressions of it see entry under "Tourist Trap".

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a fun thing to do in the Beatles museum shop is to press a penny and have a beatle, Albert Dock memento imprinted on it...as seen in this pic. Simply insert the penny and a 50p piece and watch it be flattened and imprinted before your eyes. Hey Laura you got one!

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Merseyside Maritime museum in the Albert Dock complex is well worth a few hours of you time. It offers a unique insight into the history of the great port of Liverpool - covers the wars, emigration, slavery and Titanic and Lusitania exhibitions to name a few.

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The floating palaces section of the museum has some wonderful models ...such as the Titanic one shown here.

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Don't forget to explore the outside for the external exhibits of the Maritime Museum - several boats on display. There's also a great view across to the "3 Graces" from the entrance of the museum - although there is a better view from the top floor of the museum (where my page intro pic was taken.

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Part of the external exhibition of the maritime museum is a propeller from the ill-fated merchant ship Lusitania. Much controversy surrounds her cargo and sinking. It is suggested the the British deliberately sent her into danger to provok great outrage in the United States which helped create the climate of public opinion that would later allow America to join the war.

The Lusitania carried a healthy complement of American passengers when she departed New York for Liverpool on May 1, 1915. As the Lusitania neared the end of her crossing, a German U-boat sank three British ships in the waters south of Ireland through which she was about to sail and on May 7, 1915, the Lusitania was too slow in noticing both the periscope and the torpedo of a German submarine to escape her fate. She was just 10 miles from the southern coast of ireland.

The German government apologized for the incident, but claimed its U-boat only fired one torpedo and a second explosion was a result of a secret cargo of heavy munitions on the ship. If this true, Britain was guilty of breaking the rules of warfare by using a civilian ship to carry ammunition. British authorities rejected this charge and claimed that the second explosion was caused by coal dust igniting in the ship's almost empty bunkers.

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On the dock complex the old Piermaster's house can be visited free too. Gives a real insight into the houses and furnishings of that period. When we visited it was around Christmas time and it looked so festive and traditional inside decorated with garlands around the fireplaces.

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Directions: Albert Dock

If you enjoy Modern Art then you should put the Tate gallery on your list of things to see. Note its closed on Mondays and Bank holidays and you will have to pay for the specialist exhibitions on the 2nd floor - otherwise its free.

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Directions: Albert Dock

Personally the art does nothiing for me...I mean what does this say to you?!?!
Oh and btw photography is not allowed inside (even without flash) but I managed to snap this one before I was told ;-)

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