Liverpool is just full of hidden treasurers. While wondering
around trying to find our next pub, we wondered into a square containing an
awe-inspiring giant monument in tribute to Queen Victoria. The open dome
features a fourteen-foot statue on a pedestal holding a sceptre. Hiding just
behind the monument on the other side of a very thin line of trees is the Queen
Elizabeth Law Courts; a strange name considering the monument was there first. I
suppose the stern gaze of Victoria causes many modern-day offenders to reflect
on their crimes and compare their sentence to Victorian times and how lightly
they’ve escaped the gallows. It’s also strange that the square was named Derby
Square; surely Castle Square would have been a much more suited name since that
was the site of Liverpool’s castle. Unfortunately my friend wasn’t impressed;
so I didn’t have much time to explore or reflect upon the irony.
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