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Liverpool in England used to have a bit of an image problem. Back in the 70s and 80s it turned out hard hit by recession and TV series including the Liver Birds and Boys in the Blackstuff showed it gritty, run-down, and disreputable. Go forward to 2008 and Liverpool's reign as European Capital of Culture. Obviously holidays changed. This is now an american city where RIBA - the architects' trade association - runs two architectural tours, Liverpool hotels on the list of Pier Head area plus the other focused on both the cathedrals, and the location where the film and video arts have their very own arts centre in truth. Liverpool is the style of city the spot where you discover lady feeding pigeons at Pier Head, back with her shopping bags accumulated beside her to the bench. Every once in awhile one of the seagulls, lords of most Hotels in Liverpool city centre they survey, rushes in with his sharp beak, putting the pigeons to flight, and rushes out again cramming a complete slice of bread down its gullet. But this really is Liverpool; she's dressed elegantly in black velvet which has a filmy white gauze scarf and patent leather shoes. "Liverpool's really changed," she told me. "It is a nice town now. Go searching here, they've done lots by it. You'll find dog walkers now; you didn't use to discover a great number of Shop insurance dogs, but there are plenty of apartments now so there are actually always people walking their dogs at Pierhead." Not everybody approves in the changes. Inside Baltic Fleet pub, someone informs me the bar once was in the corner. "You had a devil of an time getting served," he says. "Now, it's lost a bit of its character, it isn't want it was once.