1. Friday 10th June Saturday 11th June Sunday 12th June
WATERFRONT “Tours of World Heritage Site buildings” “Tours of World Heritage Site buildings” “Tours of World Heritage Site buildings”
BUILDINGS The Liver Building - inside tours. The Cunard Building - inside tours. Port of Liverpool Building - inside tours.
Meet: 10.30am or 1.00pm, at Pier Head Meet: 10.30am or 1.00pm, at Pier Head Meet: 10.30am or 1.00pm at Pier Head
meeting point. meeting point. meeting point.
CITY “Legacy of the Sea” Stories of “Drunken Sailors & Yellow Submarines” “The Men who built the Docks”
SEAWALKS Shipbuilders, Shipowners, & Seamen. A musical slant on Maritime Liverpool. Steers, Berry & Hartley - pioneers of dock
Meet: 11.30am at Pier Head meeting point. Meet: 11.30am at Queen Square, City Centre. building. Meet: 11.30am, outside
“Ghosts of the Past” Memories of “The Industrial Legacy of the North Docks” Pumphouse, Albert Dock.
Seafarers & others in the 19th century. A detailed look at some hidden qualities of “Arrivals & Departures”
Meet: 2.30pm outside St. James’ Cemetery, the World Heritage Site. Stories of pioneers, travellers & settlers.
Anglican Cathedral. Meet: 2.30pm at Pier Head meeting point. Meet: 2.30pm at St. Nicholas’ churchyard.
OUT OF “The Story of the Battle of the Atlantic” “A different view of the Mersey” “Battles & Bathing Machines”
TOWN Meet: 11.30am outside Bootle Town Hall, Tales of New Ferry. Meet: 11.30am New A discovery walk in Waterloo.
SEAWALKS Oriel Road, Bootle. Ferry Post Office, Wirral. Meet: 11.30am at Waterloo Station.
“Waves, Tides & Rescues” Stories of early “Hale Village-more than a Giant and a “Stories of the Great Liners” From giants
River Navigation. Meet: 2.30pm at Tam Lighthouse” of the deep, to modern luxury.
O’Shanter’s Cottage, Bidston, Wirral Meet: 2.30pm at the War Memorial, Hale Village. Meet: 2.30pm at Pier Head meeting point.
THE ART OF “Ships, Shipowners & the Sea” “Stories of Lord Nelson” in pictures “Water, water, everywhere”
THE SEA Sea pictures and models in the Maritime Discover some sea stories in the Walker Art Sea tales & others in the Lady Lever Art
Museum, Albert Dock. Gallery, William Brown St. Gallery, Port Sunlight. Meet: 3.00pm
Meet: 3.00pm outside Museum. Meet: 3.00pm outside the gallery. outside the Gallery, Port Sunlight Village
MORNING “Runcorn-by-the-Sea” Stories of water “Sea Ports of the Dee” “Hoylake-on-Sea”
SEATOURS BY transport past & present. Myths & tales of Ports of yesteryear. Tales of lighthouses, lifeboats, and more.
COACH Meet: 10.30am at Pier Head, or 11.00am at Meet: 10.45am at Pier Head, or 11.00am at Meet: 10.45am at Pier Head, or 11.00am at
Runcorn Station Woodside Ferry Terminal. Woodside Ferry Terminal.
AFTERNOON “Inside the Port of Liverpool” “Lifeboats & Rescues” “Garston-by-the-Sea”
SEATOURS BY A visit to the modern docks with a Port of A tour of Formby’s maritime past. A tour to Liverpool’s other Port.
COACH Liverpool Guide. Meet: 3.00pm at Pier Head meeting point. Meet: 3.00pm at Pier Head meeting point.
Meet: 3.00pm at Pier Head meeting point.
EVENING “Seaside Delights” A tour which celebrates “The birth of Victorian Southport” “Seabirds & Sea breezes”
SEATOURS BY delights of the past in Victorian Eastham & A journey which traces the growth of this Part two of the story of the Mersey
COACH pre-war New Brighton. popular seaside town. Waterfront Park, (Formby/Southport
Meet: 6.45pm at Pier Head, or 7.00pm at Meet: 6.15pm at Pier Head meeting point section). Meet: 6.30pm at Pier Head, or
Woodside Ferry Terminal. or 7.00pm at Birkdale Station, Southport. 7.00pm at Formby Station.

2. PLEASE NOTE:
Building Tours are courtesy of the Building
Management, and are conducted at their discretion.
Names will be taken prior to tours for security reasons.
Walks last for approximately 1 to 11/2 hours, and may
be linear or circular.
Coach Tours last approximately 2 hours, and will
return passengers to their starting point.
Walks & Tours for the
All walks & tours are free but require tickets for Mersey River Festival 2005
insurance purposes. These can be obtained from the
Festival Office, Albert Dock in the week prior to the
Festival. A Programme of free walks & tours throughout the region for
All events on this programme are led by qualified Blue the 25th Annual Mersey River Festival
& Green Badge Tourist Guides who offer this
10th, 11th & 12th June 2005
opportunity to discover more about the City and
region on behalf of the Liverpool Culture Company.
for more information on Mersey River Festival
visit: www.liverpool08.com
or tel: 0151 233 2008
Tickets for these events are available from
Monday 6th June
from Unit 18, The Colonnades, Albert Dock