Identifier: liverpool00scot (find matches)
Title: Liverpool
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Scott, Dixon, 1881-1915 Hay, J. Hamilton, ill
Subjects: Liverpool (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black

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t himas he goes. And even when he passes THE RIVER 21 through the heart of the City and into thesuburbs beyond, and through the belt ofthese into the open country that stretchestowards the east, the sting of the brinewill from time to time assault him, andhe will hear the endless crying of sea-birds, and he will watch the grey, in-numerable gulls as they rise and fallabove the red wake of the plough. CHAPTER II THE DOCKS As Liverpool lies deployed upon theSouth Lancashire landscape, she falls intothe shape of an all but fully unfurled fan.The root bone-work of that fan, its un-webbed handle-part, is formed by thecommercial apparatus of the place, themunicipal apparatus, and—pleasantlyconjoined to these hard masculine con-cerns—the more feminine region of thegreat shops, the flowers, the carriages,the shopping women. All this has beencompactly tugged down towards itscentral wharves by that inevitable ar-biter the River; it forms the area, busybut uninhabited, which the traveller 22
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THE DOCKS 23 enters the moment he steps ashore. Init are the streets of offices, the banks,the various Exchanges—Cotton, Corn,Produce, Stock—and occasional densemasses of warehouses ; all about these—a pattern of dull jewels, say, on the greyessential framework—there lie the greatofficial buildings—the Town Hall, theMunicipal Offices, St. Georges Hall,the Art Gallery, and so forth—with hereand there, more vigorously flashing, theglassy bulbs that tip the railways ; andthere, finally—a series of decorativeflourishes—curve the bright ways of theemporia. Next, to right and left of thisclean-picked fabric, appear, like twoswart brush-strokes, the twin quags ofthe slums—their position, too, explicitlydefined by the River; and beyond these,again, drooping down V-wise towardsthe handle in the centre, but for therest holding consistently aloof, spreadthe vast, indeterminate plumes of thesuburbs, curving round from the river-side at Seaforth, away through the open 24 LIVERPOO

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