Two men emerge from the throng of shoppers, people on lunch breaks and workmen in dirty boots and fluorescent jackets. The men wear strange clothing and bellow repeatedly at each other. Edward Marsh and James Whitfield, here to do their official duty as decided by the mayor: knocking down Lord Molyneux's bridge.

Suddenly though for Ed and James there is no bridge. Travelling through time but not space they have arrived at the crossroads of Paradise Street and Whitechapel in the present day.

People gather round confused but entertained by our time travelling Liverpool heroes. Stood in Lord Street they talk of a bridge built by their Lord Molyneux, the bridge it seems spanned a tidal 'pool for which this new city is named but which exists now only as a wave beneath our feet. They motion upwards toward the Victoria monument and a missing fortress: these battlements it seems once resided in what we now know as Castle Street.

Edward and James continue the story of the common and the bridge which will change it all, transporting us back in time with them until we begin to understand the terrain of our city as it was then, before the imposition of our concrete and glass structures.

But history and stories have in common a habit of putting themselves back on course, Lord Molyneux's steward has arrived, another time traveller with a mission: to throw Ed and James in jail for a crime they committed in another Liverpool 336 years ago. The fates of our heroes and the future of our city it seems hangs in the balance.

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Relevant links

liverpoolworldheritage.com

liverpoolheritageforum.org.uk