Quotes:
"...I have never either arrived at or departed from this port of Liverpool. Nor am I sorry, for they have always seemed to me most gloomy docks. The romance of the sea, about which we have always heard and read so much, has to set its opening chapter in some very dismal quarters of this country."
-- English Journey
J.B. Priestley

"Throughout this large-built Town every Brick is cemented to its fellow Brick by the blood and sweat of Negroes."
-- Rev. William Bagshaw Stevens, 1797

"Liverpool and Mexico are great places to make films. They're quite similar, too, in terms of the speed of the crews and the enthusiasm and the availability of grandiose, semi-derelict buildings."
-- British film director Alex Cox