The Liver Birds!
Three weeks of wall to wall sunshine and the morning we go to Liverpool is drizzly and cloudy!
We took the lift to the 10th floor, but after that leg muscles were needed. We all made it to the top – 15th Floor.
Luckily visibility was good and the views from the top were spectacular.
Did you know it was built from 1908 to 1911 for the Royal Liver Assurance Company. It was designed by architect Walter Aubrey Thomas.
It’s made out of reinforced concrete clad with granite, was the tallest building in Europe from 1911 to 1932 and the tallest in Britain until 1960 – the first skyscraper in Europe!
The Liver Birds were designed by German sculptor Carl Bernard Bartels and cost £70 each with an extra £10 per bird to fix them in place! It is 322 feet or 98 metres tall.
The clock faces are 25 feet or 7.6 metres in diameter, bigger than those on Big Ben in London.
In today’s money it cost £58,000,000 to build.
We finished the day with a lunch at Zizzi’s in Liverpool One.