Cunard Building
Palazzo-style shipping headquarters carved with allied crests, zodiac signs and a bronze war memorial.
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This guide to the Cunard Building in Liverpool starts at the bronze column on its west side, unveiled by the Earl of Derby in nineteen twenty-one, and at two Latin words cut into it. It follows how a shipping line chose to mourn its own, in the language of the sea. Stand by the memorial at Pier Head, where you can see both the column and the carved walls of the building behind it.
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