Liverpool

Liverpool is a major city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary.

Built across a ridge of hills rising up to a height of around 230 feet (70 metres) above sea-level at Everton Hill, the city’s urban area runs directly into Bootle and Crosby in Sefton to the north, and Huyton and Prescot in Knowsley to the east. It faces Wallasey and Birkenhead across the River Mersey to the west. Liverpool is governed by one of five councils within the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and is one of England’s core cities and its fifth most populous – 441,477 in 2002, with 816,000 in the Liverpool Urban Area, which includes suburbs on the Liverpool side of the Mersey but not those on the Wirral.

Inhabitants of Liverpool are referred to as Liverpudlians and nicknamed “Scousers”, in reference to the local meal known as ’scouse’, a form of stew. The word scouse has also become synonymous with the Liverpool accent and dialect.

Liverpool, now classed as a World Heritage city, is full of culture, excitement and an important maritime history. Famous for its Mersey waterfront, Liverpool has recently redeveloped many areas in central Liverpool with unrivalled architecture, including the trendy Albert Dock, complete with museums, cafés, bars and shops, Stanley Dock, Waterloo, Wapping and the general Liverpool Pier Head area. Now a city of world significance, with an impressive university, Liverpool is also known throughout the world for being the home of the famous rock band, The Beatles, which attractions huge numbers of tourists to Liverpool each year.

The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre located in Trafford in Greater Manchester, England.

It has 118,766 square meters (1.2m square feet) of retail space and attracts 29 million visits annually. It is made up of 4 main areas: Peel Avenue, Regent Crescent, The Dome and The Orient. The centre is owned by the Peel Holdings. The centre was designed so that visitors enter on both of the two main shopping floors in equal numbers. This helps avoid the problem suffered by other centers, such as the Metro Centre, where visitors do not go to upper floors meaning that many big retailers avoid upper floor units.

The Dome
The Dome is in the middle of the centre and is home to more up market stores such as the first Selfridges outside of London.

Regent Crescent
Regent Crescent is the area where most of the high end designer stores are situated like Karen Millen, Jane Norman, Gap and Mexx, it is home to two bookshops as well as Water stones and Borders and it is also home to two department stores BHS and Debenhams which is at the end of Regent Crescent.