Sunday night again already!

Liverpool buildings

And where did the weekend go?

I went to meet my friend Liz in Liverpool yesterday. We met at the old Lewis' store. It was once the flagship for the Lewis' Group which started trading in 1856, sadly it was the last Lewis' to trade and closed May 2010.
Above the main entrance to the Liverpool store is a statue of a nude man by Sir Jacob Epstein. Its official title is Liverpool Resurgent but is nicknamed locally "Dickie Lewis". It is a well-known local meeting place and was immortalised in the 1962 anthemic song "In My Liverpool Home" by Peter McGovern:

"We speak with an accent exceedingly rare,

Meet under a statue exceedingly bare"

The statue was unveiled for Lewis's Centenary celebrations which came as the blitzed store had finished being rebuilt.

It was a grey old day to start with but the sun did come out. We had a lovely lunch at a small Italian restaurant.
Then we wandered around the Bluecoat.

Then we walked up Bold Street towards St Luke's Church.

Known locally as The Bombed out church.
The foundation stone was laid in 1811.
It was hit by an incendiary device just after midnight on Tuesday May the 6th 1941.

We walked up Leece Street to see if Pepe's was still there. In our 20's when we were students we use to go to Pepe's Italian Restaurant for all our birthdays. It wasn't there any more but we have lots of happy memories.

Do you like the small vase I got from Habitat?
Today was a tidy and sorting day, we got the last of our things out of storage yesterday. So as a treat I got some rhubarb from the garden and made a Rhubarb Sponge, it was lovely with Clotted Cream Ice Cream!