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
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The tenor (heaviest) bell in the Tower at SFX bearing the inscription:
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
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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
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.
6 interior shots The first three from SFX and the last three from Our Lady and St Nick's.
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