Liverpool Waterfront
Riverside promenade of historic docks, museums and ferry piers along the broad Mersey estuary.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Liverpool Waterfront follows one weekend in April 2012, when the French street theatre company Royal de Luxe brought its giant marionettes to the city for the Titanic centenary. It traces the show back to a real letter written by a ten-year-old girl in 1912, and to the crew of puppeteers who made wood and steel walk. Best heard near the river, looking south towards the docks.
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