Lime Street

Lime Street will be your first experience of Liverpool is arriving by bus or train as this is where the main train station and National Express coach station is. The train station is a fine building, once the world's largest, dating from 1867. Nearby St. George's Hall, the old concert hall, is also architecturally interesting and has St John's Gardens in front of it.

Perhaps the most interesting thing to visit is the Walker Art Gallery which houses some of Britain's best art outside London and some of England's finest painters such as George Stubbs alongside Impressionists and contemporary British art such as David Hockney.

Walking up Brownlow Hill you reach the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral known affectionately as "Paddy's Wigwam" (you'll know why when you see it). From here it is about 500 yards to the Anglican Liverpool Cathedral, Britain's largest cathedral with the world's tallest Gothic arches and heaviest (and highest) bells.