My first visit to Liverpool afforded me enough time to visit the two cathedrals. I liked “Paddy’s Wigwam” much more than I expected to. I can imagine that on a day with the sun streaming through the coloured windows, it would be particularly beautiful. The Anglican Cathedral is a more traditional design and a magnificent building of immense proportions.
The Walker Art Gallery houses a wonderful collection, including some famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings and other gems such as William Frederick Yeames’s picture of a Royalist child being interrogated by a soldier, And When Did You Last See Your Father? A young boy dressed in sky-blue silk stands alone in the centre of the canvas in a circle of light, dwarfed by a hostile, helmeted soldier who menaces him with an upraised arm but who, along with his cohort, is sunk in shadow.
