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Examinng the archeology under Queen Victorias Skirt

We looked at the size of the castle and so we divided into small groups and went off to the corner towers of the site to wave at each other, this was diffiult as the site was too big and we were dissapearing behing buildings off Castle Street.

The castle was built by the Ferrars family, local land owners, their power must have been extraordinary as the castle is as big as Harlech which was built much later by King Edward
We walked round the site. Looking at the remaining vantage points of the old peninsular, seen through the Paradise projects baricades down by the law courts. We worked out that the original orientation of the streets was towards the sea entry of the Mersey, whilst the entry to the tidal pool would have been impossible without permission from the castle.

A daily post photographer came to take some pictures of this newsworthy group of picnicers and we went for a warm up coffee and more chat at the MangeTout coffee bar.


Comments and questions

"'Why did the Ferrars family build such a huge castle? the groud plan would have been the biggest in Liverpool until the Anglican cathedral was finished "

"How and where did they get the resources?"

"What must it have been like to live in its shadow outside the castle wall?"

"...the politics of knocking such a building down to build an unstable church..."

"Thankyou I really felt I was at a picnic and I feel like I belong to Liverpool more than before I met you all."

"Keep going!"

"Great introduction to the 'pool project"

"I will come back to the next picnic"

"Great to meet such a bunch of interesting people"

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