Walking To The Tate Liverpool
After visiting St. George’s Hall, I walked down to the Tate Liverpool, having lunch at Carluccio’s on the way. I took these pictures on the way.
They show how much public art and the number of clocks there are in the city.
I think it is true to say that you could spend a couple of days looking at all the public art in Liverpool.
Tom Murphy
Tom Murphy‘s work is all over Liverpool. but at the present time there is an exhibition in St. George’s Hall.
What surprised me was the range of subjects in his sculpture and paintings, including surprisingly to me, Margaret Thatcher and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Funnily enough, when I arrived in Liverpool, I had had to explain who the people were in his twin statues entitled “Chance Meeting” of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock, to some puzzled Chinese tourists.
Liverpool incidentally has more public works of art, than any other location except Westminster. There is a list here and Tom Murphy has done twelve of them. He is certainly very prolific!
Inside St. George’s Hall
I’ve been inside St. George’s Hall before, but never with the floor revealed.
I had thought that someone I knew at University had seen the floor in the 1960s, when I was there. A guide confirmed that it had been revealed in 1965! So my recollection might have been correct.
But whatever, it truly is a must-see building, and it is sad, that it is only open until the 18th of August.
Note the statue of Sir Paul McCartney by Tom Murphy.
One strange thing, is that there has been no television report on BBC Breakfast. Surely, something as noteworthy as this, deserves a small report, whilst the floor is revealed. There is a report on the BBC website from when it was last revealed in January 2012.
If You Need To Know The Time Ask A Liver Bird
If you walk out of the station and cross the road to St. George’s Hall, you will see the massive clock on the landward side of the Liver Building.
If You Need To Know The Time Ask A Liver Bird
The Liver Building clocks are visible from a large part of the city centre and is there another city, from where a clock can be seen from so many places? The clock faces are after all, larger than those on Big Ben.
A Station With Twin Clocks
Is Liverpool Lime Street station, one of the few where you are greeted two large clocks?
But then Liverpool loves its big clocks and seems to have more than most cities.
I went to the Second City today, to see two unique exhibitions; the revealing of the floor in St. George’s Hall and the Marc Chagall exhibition at the Tate Liverpool.
Does Elizabeth Rizzini Ever Wear The Same On-Screen Outfit Twice?
Elizabeth Rizzini is one of the ladies, who do the weather on BBC London.
She is always well-turned out, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen her wear the same on-screen outfit twice.
Unlike the obviously canny Scots lass, who usually does the weather on BBC Breakfast.
The Anonymous Widower 