Liverpool Cathedral
Vast red sandstone Anglican cathedral with a towering belfry and sweeping rooftop views.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Liverpool Cathedral looks up at its great central tower and asks who paid for it. It follows two sons of a Liverpool provisions merchant, from a teenage trip to Chicago in the eighteen seventies to the cattle country of Argentina, and the appetite of a whole nation for cheap imported meat. Along the way come cold stores, refrigerated ships, a peerage and a tax dispute. Best heard in the nave, where you can look straight up into the tower.
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