- Instead of rushing on I decided to check out if there was anything else to see so I went into town to check if there were any special events happening. Wow what a surprise National Heritage weekend has already begun .. so I dashed around going to free events

- 1pm I was on a tour of the Conservation Centre located in a historic railway warehouse.

- 2.15pm I dashed down the road and joined a walking tour where a Geologist explained about the stones used to build Liverpools heritage buildings and roads

- see the new marble diva on top of the Liverpool Art museum, which incidentally they mentioned at the Conservation Centre as they had just finished this job. The 100 year old original had be made of soft Italian marble which had decayed badly due to the weather and pollution so the conservation centre had used their scanner system to build a computerised model which fed a robot which then carved a block of cheaper harder Beijing marble, which has now been placed on the museum roof.

- The geologist is explaing the sones of Liverpool's "Nelson's Column", which is actually Wellington. He explained mixing stones causes problems : the higher stones are porous sandstone so where they meet the lower granite water can't travel down any further and pools so decaying the sandstone.

- After that I popped into National Museum to see if they were anymore tours and they said they had free tickets for the planetarium. I managed to fit in a quick visit to the Georges Hall Heritage Centre before rushing back to the 4pm planetarium show which was good, but only 15 minutes long.

- I did some more research on weekend activities in Liverpool and went up to Hope Street to get details of their Festival, but it turned out that all the listings magazines had got the dates wrong. So I decided that Saturday I would move onto to Manchester to catch it's heritage events. I needed to check the internet to find out what was happening there, but the university PC room was locked by the time I got there so I continued on a walking tour of the area.

- I walked around the Anglican Cathedral which looks like a normal gothic church magnified 5 times. On the tour of the conservation centre an interesting story had come up. They had a model of the Catholic cathedral, but is wan't the modern drum shape it was a huge huge stern complex with a dome in the centre like the Aya Sofia in Instambul. It turns out that before the war the Catholic administration had started work on this mega-church, but it was very controversial.. Firstly it would have dwarfed the nearby Anglican Cathedral and Liverpool residents had always been protestant whereas it was the immigrants like the Irish who formed the catholic congregation. Secondly this dome would have been bigger that Rome's St Peter's aswell. Anyway the war intervened and although they tried to continue the project after the money ran out so 30 years later the new smaller drum RC cathedral was built over the top of what had been built so that it's crypt is actually from the prewar building.

- I continued onto a couple of local arts venues LIPA, FACT and the Bluecoat, but nothing doing so I came back to Stevies to check the internet at his place.