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Published December 2005 by Cities500
Hardback (244x210mm) 176 pp
rrp: £15
ISBN: 1-905547-01-3
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Book Forewords (PDF):
Wirral Waterfront:
The jewel in the crown of England's North West
Wirral is a fascinating and unique place and its people are renowned for their warmth, humour and spirit. Surrounded by water on three sides, Wirral's distinctive character is surely influenced by those seaborne connections.
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This book puts the spotlight - through a lavish and panoramic display of photographs - on the fascinating route that traces the waterfront boundaries on this remarkable peninsula - an area with a clearly focused perspective of its own identity, perhaps forged by its own natural environment of outstanding beauty.
That geographical distinction gives it an advantage over other regions that makes it a truly dazzling waterfront location. And those very differing waterfronts are surely the key to Wirral?s idiosyncratic personality and moods.
Flanked by the monochrome reaches of the wide estuary of the river Dee that springs from the wild, rocky mountains of North Wales, it is then washed by the turbulent expanse of the Irish Sea, where Hilbre island and other nuggets of scattered outcrops of land have such ecological importance; and then it juts almost impertinently into the fast, flowing estuary of the river Mersey.
This book is in many ways a celebration of Wirral, although a celebration clearly defined by its constant proximity to water.
In a special foreword and a fitting tribute Lord Hunt of Wirral reveals that his family home was in Hoylake and that his children grew up there. He declares that he can think of nowhere better.