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 Liverpool at Night
A maritime city, full of character and characters, Liverpool is famed as the vibrant home of the legendary band The Beatles.
If ever a city were the sum of its parts then Liverpool is it. A colourful and animated city brought to life by the effervescent character of its locals, just sample some ‘Scouse’ humour and you’ll see for yourself.
 Penny Lane
As the major port for transatlantic trade and immigration, Liverpool thrived from the 17th to the 19th Centuries. Many of those passing through from places like the Caribbean and Ireland settled in Liverpool establishing the strong communities of today’s Liverpudlians. During WWII Liverpool was the first port of call for over one million American GIs, who brought with them the musical tastes that were to later inspire the Beatles . In more recent years fortune hasn’t favoured Liverpool, being one of the hardest hit of Britain’s proud working class cities during the 1980s. Though within the last decade or so Liverpool has come out of the shadows and is in the midst of urban development programmes, most notably along the Albert Dock and Paradise Street areas and a cultural reawakening with its celebration as the European City of Culture for 2008.
 Walker Art Gallery
The emergence in the 1960s of four musicians with bad hair cuts immortalised Liverpool. The Beatles: John, Paul, George and Ringo are undoubtedly the Liverpool’s most famous sons and people come from all over the world to the city which bore them and inspired their songs. Beatles fans will have heard of Mathew Street and the famous Cavern Club in which the band played their first gigs. The Beatles Story exhibition outlines the rise of the Fab Four and the Magical Mystery Tour is an unmissable bus trip around all the Beatles related sites including Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields.
Other important cultural sites of Liverpool include the Museum of Liverpool Life, the Merseyside Maritime Museum and Liverpool’s excellent art galleries include the Tate Gallery housing one of the best contemporary art collections outside London and the fabulous Walker Art Gallery with its world renowned collection of Pre-Raphaelite art.
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