For whatever reason, he wasn't very happy in Liverpool.
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Yes so I gather, Philip. He is one of my favorite poets but I have to admit he didn't have good things to say about the city, though I can imagine that the poverty and misery of the city at that date might have got him down. You might be aware of the poem I wrote, that's here in the creative area,"Gerard Manley Hopkins at St. Katherine's Chapel, Lydiate". Hopkins did visit a house out at Lydiate and wrote there the poem, "Spring and Fall: To a Young Child", on September 7, 1880.
Chris
The tenor (heaviest) bell in the Tower at SFX bearing the inscription:
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
It's daft, but of 90% of the pictures I've posted up, I've never actually been in to the church itself, just the tower!
I'm sure my good lady will never allow me to marry her incase I disappear up the tower to ring for my own wedding :)
Liverpool Church Question: Where can you find the Donnelly?
Kind of hard NOT to take a pic of St Bride's when on the Tower. It looks so good.
Here's a pic of Joyce, Sylvia and Rose who look after the place. Tom and Catherine Murphy live just around the corner from the church, btw
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/stbride/members.jpg
Stretching the "Churches of Liverpool" thread a bit, but I love this pic and it's on the banks of the River Mersey. St Mary's, West Bank, Halton.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.com/stmaryswestbank.jpg
That's the one:PDT_Piratz_26:
http://www.liverpoolmonuments.co.uk/...lysship001.jpg
6 interior shots The first three from SFX and the last three from Our Lady and St Nick's.
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/.../sfxint001.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/.../sfxint002.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/.../sfxint003.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/...icksint001.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/...icksint002.jpg
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/...icksint003.jpg