Paul McCartney’s Liverpool

A large, modern hospital complex occupies the site where the original Walton Hospital buildings once stood. On June eighteen, nineteen forty-two, Paul McCartney was born in this hospital. During the nineteen forties, the hospital served…

The Casbah Coffee Club is tucked into the cellar of a Victorian villa at eight Haymans Green, identifiable by its unassuming residential exterior in the West Derby area. While the rest of the world knows the Cavern Club, this basement…

The Cavern Club is a narrow, brick-vaulted underground cellar on Mathew Street, recognizable by the steep staircase leading down from the pavement into its arched rooms. Opened on January sixteenth, nineteen fifty-seven, it was originally…

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts occupies a prominent, restored Georgian-era building that once served as the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. You can identify the site by its historic facade, which now houses a…

The Philharmonic Dining Rooms, known locally as The Phil, stands on the corner of Hope Street and Hardman Street with a facade of exuberant stone carvings and tall, stepped gables. Designed by architect Walter W. Thomas and completed…

Smithdown Place is a junction in South Liverpool that locals frequently identify as the Penny Lane roundabout. The site holds significance as the location referenced in the nineteen sixty-six Beatles song, Penny Lane, which Paul McCartney…

Twenty Forthlin Road is a plain, terraced council house, built in nineteen forty-nine. You can identify it by its modest brick exterior, which looks much like the other homes on this suburban street in the Allerton district of Liverpool.…

St Peter’s Church in Woolton is defined by its massive bell tower, which rises ninety feet and historically stood as the highest point in Liverpool. This red sandstone building, designed by architects Grayson and Ould, opened in eighteen…