Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this bust of Caligula.
Once again, housed in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Birkenhead.
The Emperor Caracalla - Lady Lever art Gallery, Birkenhead.
RV Sarsia, East Float Dock, Birkenhead.
The remains of the Fisheries research vessel RV Sarsia can be found in the East Float Dock. The boat was built for the National Marine Biological Association in 1953, and then privately owned from the late 1980s. She sank in 1998 (unclear why) and is slowly disintegrating.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits: taken at Birkenhead Docks, in the pump house.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: this portrait bust of Hadrian.
You can see it in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Birkenhead.
In place of a poem, here's a piece about Wilfred Owen - whose WWI poetry needs no introduction.
Owen spent part of his childhood in Birkenhead.
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the Large Basin (East Float) at Birkenhead Docks, taken from the Tower Road bridge.
The buildings visible are the East Float Quay - now apartments and commercial units.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits shows the RV Sarsia (fisheries research vessel), which sank at its mooring in Birkenhead’s East Float Dock.
Source: Flickr / damiavos
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits - this bust of Emperor Hadrian. You can see him at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Port Sunlight, Birkenhead, Wirral.
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen - a man from Birkenhead...
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells; And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes Shall shine the holy glimmers of good-byes. The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds, And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits is not in Renaissance Italy - it’s the dock pumping station, in Birkenhead!
Today’s Flickr photo with the most hits shows a bit of our industrial heritage: the Egerton Lifting Bridge at Birkenhead Docks.
Here’s a surprising but fun poll topper.
The Flickr photo with most hits today is this snap taken at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in Birkenhead - some examples of children’s work from Wallasey School
Today’s Flickr Pic - a quick shot after take off from Liverpool John Lennon airport.
Birkenhead and Liverpool, and the Mersey.