Cities / Liverpool
United Kingdom
Liverpool: Docks, empire, the slave trade, the Irish, the Blitz and four musicians.
Liverpool made its money on water and a historian starts there: the docks that made it the second port of the empire, the trade in enslaved people that made the first fortunes, the Irish who arrived in the 1840s, the bunker that ran the Battle of the Atlantic, and the streets the Beatles grew up in.
The timeline the walk follows
King John founds a port for Ireland.
Liverpool ships carry more enslaved Africans than any other British port.
The first enclosed non combustible dock; the port at its peak.
The May Blitz; the Battle of the Atlantic is run from Derby House.
Lennon meets McCartney at a church fete in Woolton.
Themes
Choose one, or name your own.
Two hours covers one theme well. Three hours links two.
- Port and empire: the docks
- Liverpool and the transatlantic slave trade
- The Irish city and the sectarian century
- Battle of the Atlantic and the Blitz
- The Beatles’ Liverpool
- Two cathedrals, one street
Private walk
Your group only, your questions, your pace.
Group walk
Schools, companies, cruise and coach groups. Larger groups split.
Your theme
A period, a person, a family story. We find the historian who knows it.
Led by
A historian from Liverpool, from LocalBini’s vetted network
Meeting point
Central, confirmed in your booking email
Not included
Entry tickets to monuments and museums
Questions
About Liverpool.
Is this the Beatles tour?
It can be. We also run walks with no Beatles at all; say which.
Museums on the walk?
The Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum are free; a walk can end inside.
Cancellation?
Free cancellation up to 7 days before the walk. Within 7 days the walk is non refundable, since the historian has reserved the time. We reschedule for severe weather at no cost.
Walk Liverpool with a historian.
Date, time, length and theme. We reply within a day and confirm your historian within two to three.