Look around Liverpool

John Minnion wandering around the city, pointing and clicking...

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Winter light in the city centre

 ...and in the leafy suburbs (Calderstones Park)

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Winter light and cold brutalism

A lone figure, photographing the winter afternoon light against the cold brutalist stone of the Cathedral. And me photographing him.

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Lone busker on the Lyceum steps. A rare gap in the Bold Street pedestrian procession. This building was England’s first ‘gentlemen’s subscription library’ – forerunner of the public library but rather more exclusive. Now it sits awaiting repairs before someone comes along and makes a classy restaurant of it.

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Oasis. The garden at the Bluecoat Centre, right in the middle of town.

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Rathbone and Radio Tower

William Rathbone Vi, the most philanthropic of the philanthropist family Rathbone.

Benjamin Disraeli

A Tory grandee on the steps of St George’s Hall, reminding us what a Tory bastion this city used to be back then.

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Old Dock, new fountains

These fountains mark the edge of the Old Dock, the world’s first commercial dry dock.

Here, dockmaster William Hutchinson measured the the time and height of each high tide, along with the weather, wind direction, wind speed, temperature and air pressure. His meticulous 18th-century measurements provide a base from which rising sea levels can be measured today.

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We had such a slow-burning Autumn last year. These pictures of Calderstones Park were taken on Hallowe’en.

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The cobbles of Liverpool. There’s a load of cobbles about the city. Not good for cyclists, but they make for great patterns and textures.

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Tickle the Ivories: billed as ‘the world’s only official street piano busking festival’ comprises six pianos placed around the Liverpool One shopping centre throughout the summer, and we are invited to book a playing slot. The range of styles is a reminder of what a versatile instrument the piano is. Oh don’t we all wish our child selves hadn’t given up on those piano lessons?

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In the heart of the city... budleia and sleaze just off Hanover Street

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On the art trail in Liverpool. Contemplation in the Walker Gallery and Biennial ambiance in a derelict cinema (8.8.2016)

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Doorway at the Bluecoat Centre

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The Case History sculpture by John King (1998). I think this is my favourite sculpture in Liverpool. I like the match of colours to the stone of the surrounding buildings. It’s on Hope Street, which was awarded 'The Great Street Award', making it officially the best street in the country in 2012.

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The Red Planet. Planet Liverpool was the Last Manned Light Ship on the Mersey Bar and the last Manned Light Vessel on the English Channel.  Now a tourist attraction moored in Canning dock.

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St George’s Precinct on a grey Sunday morning. There’s a lot of ghosts here: it’s where generations of Scousers have gathered en masse at times of shared joy, anger or despair. The 1911 Transport Strike... the return of the victorious red team from Istanbul 2005... the publication of the Hillsborough Inquiry in 2016.

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Establishment and institution on view from from the top of the new library. Beyond the neoclassical dome of the Reading Room you can see the Empire, the Cathedral and the Duke of Wellington.

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Acrobats at the new library. Celebrating the opening of Liverpool’s new Central Library, September 2013 ...at a time when smaller libraries are closing everywhere.