Liverpool - Waterfront to Town Hall

To the north of the George Pier Head the traditional trio of harbor buildings can be seen: the Port of Liverpool Building (administration) in Portland stone designed by Arnold Thornley in 1907, the Cunard Building named after the Canadian Samuel Cunard (Cunard opened the first shipping line Liverpool-Halifax-Boston) and the granite Royal Liver Building by W.A. Thomas (administration).

From the Victoria Monument Castle Street leads to the Georgian Town Hall, built in 1754 after plans by John Wood of Bath and extended in 1789. The copper cupola is crowned by a statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of arts and crafts.

Not far to the east of the trio of buildings at George Peir a monument to Queen Victoria was unveiled in 1906, designed by F.M. Simpson, the first professor of architecture at Liverpool University.

Nearby the George Pier the Titanic Memorial commemorates the "Heroes in the Engine Room" of the luxury liner which sank in 1912.