Liverpool Museum 10th February 2013

It was a very bleak and wet day so we decided to go to the Museum of Liverpool. We did get some bird watching and fresh air, though. As well as taking a trip on the Mersey Ferry for lunch, we spotted five Cormorants in Canning Half-Tide Dock. Two of them had quite a lot of white on their heads and necks, perhaps more than the normal adult courship plumage, and we wondered if they were from the continental sub-species marrocanus.  One of the Superlambananas outside the Museum was painted with marine life – is this supposed to be a Common Gull? It has yellow legs, a dark eye and no red spot on its bill.

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Highlights of the Museum were replicas of the carvings from the Calder Stones, casts of early human footprints from Formby shore, dated to 4000 to 6000 years ago,

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… an imagined diorama of the earliest scousers, camping in a woodland clearing in the Woolton area

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… a complete coal fired chip fryer from a chippy in Rice Lane, with hand-painted tiles and copper edging, used from 1925 to 1982, and the model of the Lutyens RC cathedral which was never built.

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