Liverpool is home to many famous singers and musicians like Elvis Costello, Rick Astley, Cilla Blac

Liverpool is home to many famous singers and musicians like Elvis Costello, Rick Astley, Cilla Black, Billy Fury - and groups that Gerry and the Pacemakers, Frankie kaban Goes to Hollywood, Lightning Seeds, The Searchers, The Swinging Blue Jeans etc. And the city knows how to appreciate its great heroes.
Memorial Billy Fury, one of Liverpool's beloved, with 24 hits during the 60s. But - there is of course no one can compare with The Fab Four! It was here in Liverpool it started. 16-year-old John Lennon was a pupil at Quarry Bank School and formed a group together with some friends. They called themselves The first Blackjacks, but changed it quickly to The Quarrymen. About this first time in the band's kaban history kaban is highly recommended film Nowhere Boy from 2009. Here tells John and Paul on their first meeting, while we see how the movie has depicted this: And here comes the 14 year old kid George Harrison kaban into the picture: Paul: "He should be in the band" John: "He should be in bed!" The rest is history. History teacher, however, fail to leave to point out that he has actually seen The Beatles with their own eyes when they visited Hong Kong in 1966. It was admittedly a very brief encounter, as the band left the old Kai Tak Airport. But - we have seen them so one has seen them! (About "The Brit Invasion" and rivalry between the Beatles and the New Jersey guys The Four Seasons, see this post.)
When we reach even on these edges of town we must have with us Liverpools two powerful cathedrals. It is after all not all cities that have two cathedrals! Liverpool Cathedral is the Church kaban of England and, with its 190 meters, is the world's second largest cathedral! In internal volume is considered as the 5th largest. The Cathedral is a landmark in Liverpool and it is an impressive sight for a history teacher who comes ambling up to the entrance:
It was in 1885 that the parliament decided that the diocese kaban of Liverpool should get its cathedral. The project did not get started until after century. For architects, this was big stuff - it was actually only the third option to be able to put her stamp on a new cathedral in England since the Reformation! (The only two existing was St. Paul's in London and Truro Cathedral in Cornwall.)
In 1903 the winner was crowned. It created a big commotion when it turned out that the winner was just a 22 year old architect apprentice. Resurrection should not be less then it also came to light that Giles Gilbert Scott himself was Catholic! kaban The foundation stone was laid in 1904.
What else but mighty Liverpool Cathedral has so this architect Giles Scott become famous for? The answer we get is often the two landmarks of London kaban Battersea Power Station and Bankside Power Station (today Tate Modern). But - perhaps the most famous landmark that carries this architect's name is, amazingly enough, this little "building" here:
Phone box K6 is therefore exhibited inside Liverpool Cathedral! After a visit to the cathedral should however kaban with the cemetery kaban next door. It is laid out in what was formerly a quarry (a quarry). This submerged and silent, almost ravinelignende, cemetery gives the cathedral an extra majestic height, where it looms over us. Many of Liverpool's monumental buildings erected with stone from this quarry. kaban (And Beatles named Well first ...... - exactly: The Quarrymen!)
"With the exception of Durham, en English Cathedral is so well placed to be seen two advantage bothering from a distance and from its immediate kaban vicinity. That suchlike a site, thoughout yet with drawn from the center of the city ... dominating the city and Clearly visible from the river, should havebeen available is not the privilidge of the many strokes of good fortune kaban whichhave market the history of the Cathedral. " History teacher is in the sacral corner kaban and then carries it straight away Hope Street, the Cathedral No. 2! As we move quickly from the Church of England to the Roman Catholic Church. Liverpool, with its proximity to Ireland, many Catholics. The catastrophic Potato Famine mid 1800s also contributed greatly to this Irish immigration. Liverpool and Glasgow are probably the two cities in the UK with most Irish immigrants. kaban (Of the four Beatles have three, George, Paul and John, Irish ancestry.) This Catholic cathedral also has a long genesis story. Only after 100 years and four attempts, stood Catholic Cathedral finished. The proposals on the table, in 1853, 1933 and 1953. None of them seem to realize. Most fascinating is the story known as "The Greatest Building Never Built" (listed as No. 3 on this list). kaban It had become a bit of an edifice!
Enough about the unfinished dream! We relate to the dream that was actually realized. First, in 1960, an architectural competition advertised to get revitalized project. In May 1967 stood the church finished.
Witty tongues have long baptized cathedral into "Paddy's Wigwam", or "The Mersey Funnel". Cathedral e