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The Casbah Coffee Club, officially Casbah Club, was a rock and roll music venue in the West Derby area of Liverpool, England, that operated from 1959 to 1962.Started by Mona Best, mother of early Beatles drummer Pete Best, in the cellar of the family home, [1] the Casbah was planned as a members-only club for her sons Pete and Rory and their friends, to meet and listen to the popular music of ...
Beryl Bainbridge, one of England's greatest contemporary writers, grew up in Liverpool.Many of her stories are set there. A number of notable authors have visited Liverpool including Daniel Defoe, Washington Irving, Thomas De Quincey, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Hugh Walpole all of whom spent extended periods in the city [citation needed].
The sculpture was created for the ArtTransPennine Exhibition in 1998, part of an initiative to create a “corridor of art” through the North of England. [3] Liverpool's contribution, designed by Japanese artist Taro Chiezo, was the Superlambanana, which was unveiled to the city at the reopening of Liverpool's branch of the famous Tate Gallery.
These materials were deposited at the Liverpool Records Office upon his death. [9] D'Andria was a keen photographer, and at some stage the photos taken by D'Andria of the church and the surrounding districts were separated from the main D'Andria Collection and integrated into the Record Office's general collection of photographs of Liverpool. [7]
Ye Cracke is a 19th-century public house in Liverpool, England. It stands on Rice Street, a narrow offshoot of Hope Street, and takes its name from a Liverpudlian word for an alleyway. [1] John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe were regulars here when they studied at the nearby art college, and it was here that Lennon courted his first wife, Cynthia.
Chinatown is an area of Liverpool, England, that is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe. [1] Based in Great George ward in the south of the city centre, Chinatown has many Chinese businesses, restaurants and supermarkets, and facilities for the Chinese community.
Liverpool Pier Head, with the Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building, and the Anglican cathedral in the background Liverpool Pier Head, aerial photograph The Pier Head (properly, George's Pier Head [ 1 ] [ 2 ] ) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool , England.
The Philharmonic Dining Rooms is a public house at the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, and stands diagonally opposite the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. It is commonly known as The Phil. [1] It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. [2]