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Where to eat in Liverpool: Culinary pyrotechnics and arresting flavours
Published 11 May 2022
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One of the great port cities of Europe, Liverpool was once at the very crossroads of international commerce, a history reflected in its majestic waterfront architecture. Two famous bronze birds keep watch on top of the Liver Building, relative newcomers at just over a century old, one guarding the city itself, the other its maritime approaches.
The creative ferment of the 1960s projected Liverpool, via the Merseybeat scene, into the vanguard of British musical culture, an unbroken line that runs from Gerry and the Pacemakers to the Coral, via a certain 'four lads who shook the world', memorialised in the Mathew Street wall shrine. Through periods ...
