title	Pork Pies and Dockside Dereliction, Melton Mowbray and Liverpool - 7th August 2021
intro	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.
imgc7739	Arbuckle's restaurant at Downham Market services
imgc7740	The first wee and Pringles stop near Downham Market
imgp8085	Burton Street car park in Melton Mowbray
imgp8086	A quiet churchyard of St. Mary's in Melton Mowbray
imgp8089	The cobbles of Church Street
imgp8091	Melton Mowbray's market place
imgp8094	The George Hotel on High Street
imgp8095	We walk up Nottingham Street
imgp8096	The Dickinson and Mrs King's pork pie shop
imgp8097	Dead bunny graffiti behind Argos
imgp8098	The back of Argos
imgp8099	The closed-down Leisureland Amusements
imgp8100	Bright plastic things for sale
imgp8101	We head into Dickinson and Morris pork pie shop
imgp8102	Looking down Nottingahm Street to the market
imgp8103	Shelves full of pork pies
imgp8104	Melton Mowbray: rural capital of food
imgp8105	We queue up for some cakes and sundries
imgp8106	Isobel gets some fruit on the market
imgp8107	Striding across Market Place
imgp8109	Back on Church Street
imgp8112	We pause to look at St. Mary's Church
imgp8114	We stop for lunch on a park bench
imgp8115	A swan and cygnets on the River Wreake
imgp8122	The swan and its three cygnets float down river
imgp8124	An empty band stand
imgp8126	An ice-cream shop in the park
imgp8128	Cool spiky blue flowers
imgc7742	Fred's got a bandana on his head as Harry gets a hug
imgc7743	Harry roams around the services near Derby
imgc7744	The boys hang off a barrier
imgc7748	Derby and Burton services on the A50
imgc7749	Outside, there are a load of empty business units
imgc7752	It lashes it down on the M6
imgc7755	The boys are bored
imgc7756	More apocalyptic rain
imgp8129	The derelict Littlewood's building in Liverpool
imgp8131	The large and derelict Littlewood's building
imgp8134	The Littlewood's building on Edge Lane
imgp8135	A close-up of dereliction and graffiti
imgp8137	Part of the building has caught fire recently
imgp8142	The derelict car park and fading sign
imgp8143	More car-park dereliction
imgp8144	The remains of the Littlewood's sign
imgp8146	Bright graffiti
imgp8148	A derelict shop on Devon Street
imgp8149	The subterranean car park of Liverpool One
imgp8150	We queue up for the lift
imgp8151	It's quite stylish for a car park
imgp8152	The large outdoor shopping Mall of Liverpool One
imgp8153	It's raining again
imgp8155	A wet Church Street in Liverpool
imgp8156	Top Shop on Church Street
imgp8157	We stop off in Boots for some sea-sick tablets
imgp8158	Tarleton Street
imgp8160	The boys are excited to find a Lego shop
imgp8162	A giant Lego Chewbacca
imgp8165	Fred looks at a Lego Ghostbusters car
imgp8167	The boys pay for some small packets of Lego
imgp8168	Pink lights in Liverpool One
imgp8169	Isobel roams around
imgp8172	The Liver Building on The Strand
imgp8173	Dereliction on Regent Road
imgp8174	An abandoned Café sign on Regent Road
imgp8175	Derelict warehouses on the old dock road
imgp8176	Standing water and tanks
imgp8177	A large derelict concrete warehouse
imgp8178	Demolition on Regent Road
imgp8181	The car on Regent Road
imgp8182	Discarded tyres, caravans and dereliction
imgp8183	Regent Road in Liverpool's derelict docks
imgp8184	An ancient sign for a Stevedoring business
imgp8185	The derelict Merseyside Food Products building
imgp8187	A derelict beauty training building
imgp8189	Down in Liverpool Port
imgp8190	The stern of our freight ferry
imgp8191	We grab a few things out of the car
imgp8195	Fred heads off the car deck
imgp8197	We cross a gangway on the ferry
imgp8198	Isobel queues to pick up the cabin keys
imgp8199	The corridor to our cabins
imgp8200	We head off for tea past the Dutch royal family
imgp8201	The freight ferry has a reasonable canteen on it
imgp8202	A tanker moored in Liverpool port
imgp8205	Factory buildings by the ferry
imgp8208	A tangle of pipes and tanks
imgp8209	A glow of sodium-lit pipes
imgp8213	The stern of a tanker
imgp8214	Massive concrete silos
imgp8219	Some sort of grain conveyor
imgp8227	Stacked containers at the Port of Liverpool
imgp8228	A curious hut on the dock
imgp8231	Harry looks around
imgp8233	A huge container crane
imgp8235	Isobel and Fred look out over the Mersey
imgp8237	An office/house on the dock
imgp8245	The ferry's vehicle deck
imgp8247	Mobile boarding ramps wait for passing ships
imgp8251	In one of our cabins, ready for bed