Arbuckle's restaurant at Downham Market services
Pork Pies and Dockside Dereliction, Melton Mowbray and Liverpool - 7th August 2021
We're on the way to Ireland via the overnight freight ferry from Liverpool. Because it's mostly unaccompanied freight, it's not that busy with only around eight cars and a few HGV drivers, which makes for a nice quiet crossing in the relative comfort of our two cabins. There's even dinner and breakfast, courtesy of a pretty decent on-board canteen. To break up the journey, we stop off at Melton Mowbray - the home of pork pies - and do a spot of exploring around Liverpool One, a large partly-covered shopping mall built on top of existing streets, not far from the waterfront in Liverpool. There's also a bit more of a chance to explore some of the epic dereliction along the old dock road on the way to the ferry.
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The first wee and Pringles stop near Downham Market
Burton Street car park in Melton Mowbray
A quiet churchyard of St. Mary's in Melton Mowbray
The cobbles of Church Street
Melton Mowbray's market place
The George Hotel on High Street
We walk up Nottingham Street
The Dickinson and Mrs King's pork pie shop
Dead bunny graffiti behind Argos
The back of Argos
The closed-down Leisureland Amusements
Bright plastic things for sale
We head into Dickinson and Morris pork pie shop
Looking down Nottingahm Street to the market
Shelves full of pork pies
Melton Mowbray: rural capital of food
We queue up for some cakes and sundries
Isobel gets some fruit on the market
Striding across Market Place
Back on Church Street
We pause to look at St. Mary's Church
We stop for lunch on a park bench
A swan and cygnets on the River Wreake
The swan and its three cygnets float down river
An empty band stand
An ice-cream shop in the park
Cool spiky blue flowers
Fred's got a bandana on his head as Harry gets a hug
Harry roams around the services near Derby
The boys hang off a barrier
Derby and Burton services on the A50
Outside, there are a load of empty business units
It lashes it down on the M6
The boys are bored
More apocalyptic rain
The derelict Littlewood's building in Liverpool
The large and derelict Littlewood's building
The Littlewood's building on Edge Lane
A close-up of dereliction and graffiti
Part of the building has caught fire recently
The derelict car park and fading sign
More car-park dereliction
The remains of the Littlewood's sign
Bright graffiti
A derelict shop on Devon Street
The subterranean car park of Liverpool One
We queue up for the lift
It's quite stylish for a car park
The large outdoor shopping Mall of Liverpool One
It's raining again
A wet Church Street in Liverpool
Top Shop on Church Street
We stop off in Boots for some sea-sick tablets
Tarleton Street
The boys are excited to find a Lego shop
A giant Lego Chewbacca
Fred looks at a Lego Ghostbusters car
The boys pay for some small packets of Lego
Pink lights in Liverpool One
Isobel roams around
The Liver Building on The Strand
Dereliction on Regent Road
An abandoned Café sign on Regent Road
Derelict warehouses on the old dock road
Standing water and tanks
A large derelict concrete warehouse
Demolition on Regent Road
The car on Regent Road
Discarded tyres, caravans and dereliction
Regent Road in Liverpool's derelict docks
An ancient sign for a Stevedoring business
The derelict Merseyside Food Products building
A derelict beauty training building
Down in Liverpool Port
The stern of our freight ferry
We grab a few things out of the car
Fred heads off the car deck
We cross a gangway on the ferry
Isobel queues to pick up the cabin keys
The corridor to our cabins
We head off for tea past the Dutch royal family
The freight ferry has a reasonable canteen on it
A tanker moored in Liverpool port
Factory buildings by the ferry
A tangle of pipes and tanks
A glow of sodium-lit pipes
The stern of a tanker
Massive concrete silos
Some sort of grain conveyor
Stacked containers at the Port of Liverpool
A curious hut on the dock
Harry looks around
A huge container crane
Isobel and Fred look out over the Mersey
An office/house on the dock
The ferry's vehicle deck
Mobile boarding ramps wait for passing ships
In one of our cabins, ready for bed
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Arbuckle's restaurant at Downham Market services
Arbuckle's restaurant at Downham Market services
The first wee and Pringles stop near Downham Market
Burton Street car park in Melton Mowbray
A quiet churchyard of St. Mary's in Melton Mowbray
The cobbles of Church Street
Melton Mowbray's market place
The George Hotel on High Street
We walk up Nottingham Street
The Dickinson and Mrs King's pork pie shop
Dead bunny graffiti behind Argos
The back of Argos
The closed-down Leisureland Amusements
Bright plastic things for sale
We head into Dickinson and Morris pork pie shop
Looking down Nottingahm Street to the market
Shelves full of pork pies
Melton Mowbray: rural capital of food
We queue up for some cakes and sundries
Isobel gets some fruit on the market
Striding across Market Place
Back on Church Street
We pause to look at St. Mary's Church
We stop for lunch on a park bench
A swan and cygnets on the River Wreake
The swan and its three cygnets float down river
An empty band stand
An ice-cream shop in the park
Cool spiky blue flowers
Fred's got a bandana on his head as Harry gets a hug
Harry roams around the services near Derby
The boys hang off a barrier
Derby and Burton services on the A50
Outside, there are a load of empty business units
It lashes it down on the M6
The boys are bored
More apocalyptic rain
The derelict Littlewood's building in Liverpool
The large and derelict Littlewood's building
The Littlewood's building on Edge Lane
A close-up of dereliction and graffiti
Part of the building has caught fire recently
The derelict car park and fading sign
More car-park dereliction
The remains of the Littlewood's sign
Bright graffiti
A derelict shop on Devon Street
The subterranean car park of Liverpool One
We queue up for the lift
It's quite stylish for a car park
The large outdoor shopping Mall of Liverpool One
It's raining again
A wet Church Street in Liverpool
Top Shop on Church Street
We stop off in Boots for some sea-sick tablets
Tarleton Street
The boys are excited to find a Lego shop
A giant Lego Chewbacca
Fred looks at a Lego Ghostbusters car
The boys pay for some small packets of Lego
Pink lights in Liverpool One
Isobel roams around
The Liver Building on The Strand
Dereliction on Regent Road
An abandoned Café sign on Regent Road
Derelict warehouses on the old dock road
Standing water and tanks
A large derelict concrete warehouse
Demolition on Regent Road
The car on Regent Road
Discarded tyres, caravans and dereliction
Regent Road in Liverpool's derelict docks
An ancient sign for a Stevedoring business
The derelict Merseyside Food Products building
A derelict beauty training building
Down in Liverpool Port
The stern of our freight ferry
We grab a few things out of the car
Fred heads off the car deck
We cross a gangway on the ferry
Isobel queues to pick up the cabin keys
The corridor to our cabins
We head off for tea past the Dutch royal family
The freight ferry has a reasonable canteen on it
A tanker moored in Liverpool port
Factory buildings by the ferry
A tangle of pipes and tanks
A glow of sodium-lit pipes
The stern of a tanker
Massive concrete silos
Some sort of grain conveyor
Stacked containers at the Port of Liverpool
A curious hut on the dock
Harry looks around
A huge container crane
Isobel and Fred look out over the Mersey
An office/house on the dock
The ferry's vehicle deck
Mobile boarding ramps wait for passing ships
In one of our cabins, ready for bed