Wheel of Liverpool
Sixty-metre observation wheel of enclosed glass gondolas, with sweeping views over the river.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Wheel of Liverpool on Keel Wharf looks down from a glass gondola at the River Mersey and its enormous tides. It follows the wheel's own odd relationship with water and its quiet disappearance in twenty twenty, then reaches back to the seventeen-hundreds and William Hutchinson, a former privateer captain who became the port's dockmaster. Best heard as your gondola climbs, with the river in view.
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