Ropewalks
Historic grid of long, straight former rope-making streets, now packed with bars, cafes and independent shops.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ropewalks in Liverpool starts with a practical puzzle from the age of sail: how you make, and measure, a rope long enough for a ship before machines could do it. It follows the hand ropemakers who worked these fields into the nineteenth century, with their hemp, their tar and their teams of men, and the Italian instrument makers who later set up shop on Duke Street. Best heard on Bold Street, looking along its length.
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