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St George’s Church, Everton, Liverpool

This 2022 tour, a follow-up programm an earlier 2011 Liverpool’s Heritage tour, offered a high-level view of the city from the Radio City Tower and a below-ground exploration on the Old Dock Tour, followed by a tour of the Williamson Tunnels at Edge Hill.

A cinema that’s now a riding school, the Park Palace Ponies, a swimming baths that’s now a pet shop and The Florrie, a celebrated Victorian boys’ club that gave the late Gerry Marsden a start in his music career were among the unlikely buildings visited.

The itinerary included the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth, built by Puritans in the early-seventeenth century, and the two remaining iron churches designed by Thomas Rickman for John Cragge of the Mersey Iron Foundry – St George’s, Everton and St Michael-in-the-Hamlet, Aigburth – and a spectacular Victorian church by George Frederick Bodley, St John the Baptist, Tuebrook.

The 64-page handbook describes all these sites, setting them in the context of the city and its docks for guests who hadn’t joined the original tour.

For further information about these buildings and numerous other Liverpool sites, please click here.

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