Welcome to Titanic Hotel Liverpool’s newspaper, The Navigator, which has been created to guide our guests around the best of what Titanic Hotel, the city of Liverpool, and surrounding areas have to offer.
Liverpool has so much for visitors, and for everyone lucky enough to live here, to see and do. We have all of Liverpool’s culture, events and leisure on our doorstep and want to show
you the varied and vast offering, so that you can make the most of your stay here.
If you want to explore the city centre this summer, it’s our pleasure to give any information we can to help you decide what you’d like to do while you’re in Liverpool.
From Liverpool Biennial 2025 ‘Bedrock’ and the Southport Flower and Air Shows to music festivals,
including Reminisce, there’s something for everyone to enjoy this summer.
Please enjoy this issue of The Navigator, we hope it makes experiencing our beautiful city even more special.
BRIAN CONNOR
WHAT’S ON...
JULY
SOMETHING ABOUT LENNON
July 6 • Epstein Theatre
One of Liverpool’s best loved theatres, the Epstein, is open again with a great programme of shows including this biopic tribute to John Lennon. Starring actor and musician Daniel Taylor in the lead role, it explores every element of Lennon’s genius often controversial life from The Beatles breakup to his death in 1980, featuring songs like Woman, Instant Karma and Imagine as well as Fab Four classics.
LIVERPOOL CRAFT BREW FESTIVAL
July 19 • Invisible Wind Factory
Billed as the UK’s wildest touring craft beer festival, don’t expect a few quiet pints, this is a full-on party. Craft Brew Festival is five hours of bottomless craft beer, cider, wine, non-alcoholic beer, soft drinks and prosecco, with the chance to meet the brewers and sample drinks from 10+ breweries, cideries and wineries all under one roof. There’ll also be acoustic sets, a live band, and pop-up quiz.
DIRTY DANCING –OUTDOOR SCREENING
July 18 • Claremont Farm, Bebington
Moonlight Flicks outdoor cinema screenings return to Claremont Farm in Wirral this summer, with a season running until the end of August. Kicking things off is an all-time film favourite, Dirty Dancing, starring Patrick Swayze as dance teacher Johnny and Jennifer Grey as 17-year-old Baby who falls for his charms on a family vacation. Have the time of your life rewatching all those dance moves!
AN EVENING WITH IRVINE WELSH
July 23 • Everyman Theatre
Author Irvine Welsh, who wrote one of the most influential books of a generation, Trainspotting, comes to the Everyman for an in conversation and signing hosted by The Farm’s Peter Hooton to launch its immediate sequel, Men In Love. Set in the late 1980s and early ’90s against the backdrop of rave culture, it continues the stories of original iconic characters Renton, Spud, Sick Boy and Begbie.
AUG
BEYOND MONET –BEYOND VAN GOGH
Until August 15 • Exhibition Centre Liverpool
After the extended-run success of Beyond Van Gogh last year, this immersive experience returns to showcase some of the artist’s most famous works in a stunning way, projecting them onto walls, ceiling and floor to walk through. New for 2025, the Exhibition Centre is also hosting the UK premiere of Beyond Monet, surrounding visitors with nearly 400 of Monet’s most iconic paintings.
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
August 3 • Calderstones Park
More outdoor theatre – well it is summer – as Art Deco Garden Theatre at Calderstones Mansion hosts a season of al fresco performances. Audiences are invited to bring a chair and enjoy food including freshly-made pizzas as the award-winning Illyria return to Calderstones to celebrate Jane Austen’s 250th birthday with the classic love story of Lizzy Bennet and the loathsome (possibly irresistible) Mr Darcy.
From concerts to comedy tours, Liverpool is home to a bursting selection of events over the next three months.
SEPT
HAMLET
August 1-2 • Shakespeare North Playhouse
Tragedy for an open air performance in the Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden, with live music, audience interaction, comic turns and tragic twists. When his uncle murders his father, marries his mother and takes the crown, what’s a Prince of Denmark do (except maybe feign madness and try to take revenge)?
TINA
THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL
August 12-23 • Liverpool Empire
Music legend Tina Turner won an incredible 12 Grammy Awards in a career spanning six decades, now the huge West End musical devoted to her comes to Liverpool on its first ever UK & Ireland tour with Elle Ma-Kinga N’Zuzi and Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy sharing the title role. It’s a celebration packed with hits like The Best, What’s Love Got To Do With It?, and River Deep, Mountain High.
ROB BECKETT - GIRAFFE
September 5-6 • Philharmonic Hall
He’s hardly ever off the TV, with shows like Rob & Romesh Vs and Sky’s Rob Beckett’s Smart TV, but somehow comedian Rob Beckett has managed to squeeze a new world tour, Giraffe, into his schedule. Anyone who’s seen him live will know he’s an absolute master at observational comedy so expect a funny view of everything from family and kids to a love of takeaways and hotel buffets.
DEACON BLUE
September 19 • M&S Arena
Deacon Blue have a long-standing love affair with Liverpool – they’ve openly said it’s their favourite place to play outside their hometown of Glasgow –so gigs here are always special. This year marks an amazing 40 years since the band got together, and they’ll be raising the roof at the Arena with a ‘very best of’ set plus tracks from their new studio album The Great Western Road.
MATTHEW BOURNE’S THE MIDNIGHT BELL
September 16-20 • Playhouse Theatre
Set in 1930s London, Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell is back in Liverpool for a week-long run at the Playhouse. On the foggy streets of Soho, people come out of boarding houses every night to pursue their passions, hopes and dreams in pubs like The Midnight Bell. Here a lonely-hearts club gets together for affairs of the heart and a rollercoaster of longing, frustration, betrayal and redemption.
LIVERPOOL DISCO FESTIVAL
September 20 • The Dome at Grand Central Hall
Liverpool Disco Festival is a penned-in diary date every year now for lovers of glitterball floorfillers and it’s at the Dome for its 11th edition with what’s being touted as the most epic line-up yet. Disco legends Change will headline with Loose Ends live plus Dave Lee, Kirollus, Rich Medina and lots more, from 5pm to 3am, following on from a daytime boat party on the Daffodil at Canning Dock.
10 MINUTES WITH
ROB BECKETT
FOR COMEDIAN ROB BECKETT, PERFORMING TO A LIVE AUDIENCE IS LIKE SHARING A GLIMPSE INSIDE HIS HEAD EVERY NIGHT.
Now one of the most in-demand comedians in the UK, as well as co-presenting chart-topping podcast Parenting Hell with Josh Widdicombe and presenting his own Radio 2 show, he can also be seen on Sky’s Rob And Romesh Vs and fronting Rob Beckett’s Smart TV on Sky Max. He still found time to co-host The Royal Variety Performance and The BAFTA TV Awards with Romesh and host Children in Need and Comic Relief.
The Navigator squeezed into Rob’s packed diary to find out more about his tour, his work ethic and his love of stand-up:
Is there a theme to Giraffe?
I like getting the crowd involved. There’s no theme, the show is always evolving. My job is to read the energy of that room and respond. I’ve basically got an arsenal of stuff that will make them laugh. But it’ll be different stuff depending on if it’s a nice sunny day in Cambridge or a rainy night in Hull. The best comedy is when you don’t actually do your material and you’re jumping off stuff that they’ve said in the crowd.
You work hard and have two young children. How’s your work/life balance?
That’s the biggest problem, but I think I’ve got a really good balance now, where before I was just manic and I wasn’t really in the family. I was almost like an uncle that would come round. I’m home way more now. But leaving the house when you could be all watching Gladiators together, that’s hard. I wish comedy was at 11am at the end of my road. Then I’d gig every day.
Do you talk about your family in Giraffe?
Yes, but what I’ve noticed is I’ve actually been reflecting less on my kids and more on my parents and the way I was brought up because I can now compare the way they brought me up with the way I’m bringing my kids up. And there’s a thing about how as you get older you become a parent to your own parents. Although I’ve been a parent to my parents since I was about 15. I was always more sensible than them!
“THERE’S NOTHING MORE EXCITING THAN HAVING A THOUGHT AND THEN SAYING IT IN FRONT OF A THOUSAND PEOPLE AND THEY LAUGH,” HE SAYS.
Which means the 38-year-old Londoner must be having a ball, since he’s been on the road with his brand new show Giraffe since November 2024 and it won’t finish until February next year –including two dates in Liverpool this September.
Is part of your success that you’re someone people relate to?
I think the best comedy is honest and truthful and about how you feel. I’ve realised I am an everyman. I do have quite boring life choices. I like having a lie in on a Sunday. I’ll watch TV with the kids, take them to the park, watch the football, have a roast dinner. I love Wagamama’s and Pizza Express and my wife Lou is the same as me. There’s nothing more I want to be doing and luckily for me that’s the same for most of the population that I’m talking to. You see comics that do the hard yards so that they can go off and live in LA, that’s not me.
You have recently moved to the country though … It’s like the first village you get to after Bromley in south London so it’s not far from where I grew up, but it does feel like the middle of nowhere. I wake up in the morning and I can see a field of deer. I’d never seen a badger until we moved.
Your friend Romesh has been called the hardest working man in showbiz, but you’re probably second. What drives you?
We egg each other on to do more stuff. I’ve got loads of energy, and I love doing things and being creative and I love a new challenge. If I won the lottery and never needed to work ever again, I’d still do a tour.
What was it like to host Rob Beckett’s Smart TV? That was the perfect gig. Sky said ‘do you want to host a panel show about TV?’ And when they said the team captains would be Josh and Alison Hammond, I’ve never been in quicker. I love Josh, I love Allison, I love TV. I’ve always loved panel shows, but I always found sometimes the host was a bit too head teachery. So I came at it from a slightly more relaxed angle, like a prefect put in charge of the class and letting people say something rather than be scared.
You had some great guests too ...
David Tennant was amazing because I always feel like with actors, they might be too serious. And David Morrissey, from The Walking Dead. It could be like someone brings their dad to a stag do, but they were bang up for it. I think they saw it as an opportunity
to be really silly. What I like the most about our dynamic, Alison doesn’t give a s**t about winning and Josh is desperate to win so Alison really likes beating him.
You’re in big demand right now, do you ever worry about it ending?
If it does stop something else will start. I’ll run a cafe and it’ll be a really good cafe. I just sort of trust that something will happen. As long as you’re enjoying yourself and you’re working hard, you’ll normally be alright.
Rob Beckett is at the Philharmonic Hall on Friday 5 September & Saturday 6 September.
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
Movie blockbusters like The Batman and Fantastic Beasts, and award-winning TV hits including The Responder, Peaky Blinders and The Crown, couldn’t be more different when it comes to storylines, but they all have one thing in common: Liverpool.
Stanley Dock / Tianic Hotel Liverpool
The Batman (2022) / Warner Bros. Pictures / DC Comics
Sherlock Holmes (2009) / Warner Bros. Pictures
Peaky Blinders ( : BBC)
The city was chosen as a location for these productions and many more, big and small screen, thanks to our status as ‘the ultimate setting.’
Streets and landmarks in the city centre and surrounding suburbs have been transformed from 1920s Birmingham to Washington DC in the Sixties, and not forgetting the fictional Gotham City.
Liverpool boasts some of the UK’s finest architecture, with the most Grade I listed buildings outside of London, and with the support of the Liverpool Film Office we’ve become the second most filmed city in the UK.
Every different production has its own carefully scouted locations, but some are used over and over again including our Stanley Dock. So what are the most popular filming locations across Liverpool?
STANLEY DOCK / TITANIC HOTEL
The Grade II listed former dock buildings at Stanley Dock, on our doorstep at Titanic Hotel, have been sought-after by films and TV series from both sides of the Atlantic. Its authentic Victorian architecture and ability to double as other locations makes it ideal for film productions. 2011 superhero movie Captain America: The First Avenger saw it stand in for 1940s New York in a major action scene, and it was used to represent London warehouses in another action sequence in the film version of Sherlock Holmes starring Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law. For fans of Peaky Blinders, Stanley Dock played a pivotal part in the season 1 finale, doubling up as the street outside the Garrison Pub for the showdown between the Peaky Blinders and Billy Kimber.
ST GEORGE’S HALL
The Grade I listed St George’s Hall isn’t just the first Liverpool landmark that train travellers see coming
out of Lime Street station, it’s also one of the most impressive examples of neoclassical architecture anywhere in the world. With the hall doubling as Gotham City Hall, St George’s Plateau was used for exterior scenes in The Batman in 2020 and for the spin-off HBO series The Penguin starring Colin Farrell. Almost three decades earlier, interior courtroom and prison cell scenes for In The Name of the Father were shot inside, and in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them fans can spot Frank the Hippogriff (Newt Scamander’s trusted pet) take-off in front of the building! Most recently, car chase scenes for Guy Ritchie’s Fountain of Youth, starring Natalie Portman and John Krasinski, were shot around the plateau and down William Brown Street.
CUNARD BUILDING
One of Liverpool’s world famous Three Graces on the waterfront, the Cunard Building paired up with another megastar in April 2023 when Taylor Swift filmed her music video for I Can See You (Taylor’s Version) there. The Cunard has also been a backdrop for lots of other productions including C4’s It’s a Sin, Cilla with Sheridan Smith, the film Florence Foster Jenkins starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, and it appears in season three of The Crown, filmed in 2018, doubling for 1960s Washington DC.
QUEENSWAY TUNNEL
In addition to its stunning historic buildings and adaptable streets, the Mersey Tunnels are a popular choice for filming – especially fast-paced action scenes! They include a nail-biting one from the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows showing Harry and Hagrid navigating the Queensway Tunnel, narrowly avoiding the oncoming traffic of buses and cars while being hunted by Death Eaters. A thrilling chase sequence in the film Fast & Furious
6 with Vin Diesel was also filmed through the Queensway Tunnel, with the bad guys driving Robot Wars style racing cars that can flip other cars in their way. The ‘Manhattan’ tunnel to which actor Chris Pine’s lead character tracks the real terrorist plot in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is the entrance to our tunnel too.
ROYAL ALBERT DOCK
As one of the city’s most visited - and most beautiful - historic locations, Royal Albert Dock features in millions of photographs and social media posts every year. But it also pops up in its fair share of TV series including most recently Top Boy, Everything I Know About Love and The Gathering. In 2021, one of the most iconic props in British television, the Tardis, landed at the dock for shooting at night with then Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker and actor/comedian John Bishop.
THE ROYAL LIVER BUILDING
Last, but definitely not least, the Royal Liver Building had one of the biggest starring roles of all when Robert Pattinson as The Batman was clearly seen perched high up on the landmark building –doubling as Gotham City Police HQ - just below the famous Liver Birds, for one of the film’s most spectacular stunts.
Royal Albert Dock
Cunard Building
St George’s Hall
Royal Liver Building
Liverpool’s iconic waterfront
Lovingly restored, this historic World Heritage site provides a fitting location to mark the start of your lives as newlyweds. From your marriage ceremony to the evening’s celebrations, we would be honoured to host this wonderful occasion for you.
Titanic Hotel Liverpool can accommodate traditional and multi-cultural weddings up to 500 people. Our wedding venues Rum Warehouse and West Bay can be tailored to create your special day.
Rum Warehouse
Rum Warehouse is an exclusive destination wedding venue that can be transformed into the most extraordinary setting for your special day, overlooking the Stanley Dock. Prices start from £11,500 which includes 100 guests for Wedding Breakfast and 180 guests for Evening buffet.
West Bay
An exceptional venue reflective of our rich maritime heritage and restored warehouse design, with stone floors, steel pillars and vaulted brick ceilings, a wedding venue like no other! Prices start from £10,320 which includes 80 guests for Wedding Breakfast and 120 guests for Evening buffet
EXPERIENCE - RUM WAREHOUSE
Festive Celebrations
December is a magical time of the year, capture the magic of the festive season with your family and friends in Stanley’s Bar & Grill, Titanic Hotel Liverpool.
Festive Menu
A delicious menu full of festive dishes to warm you up this December in our theatre style restaurant Stanley’s Bar & Grill. Available throughout December
Festive Afternoon Tea
Get into the Christmas spirit with our festive afternoon tea. A decadent selection of festive sweet treats and sandwiches served with tea or coffee. Served daily 12pm – 4pm from £28.50 per person.
Boxing Day
Keep the festive celebrations going and dine with us on Boxing Day with your family and friends. Indulge in a three-course lunch or dinner at Stanley’s Bar and Grill.
Adults: £55
Children over 12: £27.50 (half portion of the adults menu)
Children under 12: £25
NYE on the Dock
Welcome in 2026 and enjoy a delicious dinner from our à la carte menu with your family and friends. After dinner head to Rum Bar for a drink or two and live music to welcome in the New Year.
To secure your booking a non-refundable deposit is required and full payment no later than 28 days prior. Food pre-order is required one week prior.
LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL
ONE OF THE HIGHLIGHTS OF LIVERPOOL’S ARTS CALENDAR, THE BIENNIAL IS BACK FOR 2025 FEATURING WORKS FROM 30 NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AT 18 LOCATIONS AROUND THE CITY.
The UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art has been taking over historic buildings, unconventional spaces and galleries including Open Eye, Walker Art Gallery, FACT and Bluecoat, for more than two decades with its programme of free exhibitions, performances and activities.
The theme of this year’s Liverpool Biennial –BEDROCK – was, says curator Mary-Anne McQuay, “inspired by the physical and social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground us.”
Liverpool Biennial, including 22 newly-commissioned works, runs until to September 14 so here are The Navigator’s picks of what to see and where…
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
Ana Navas has a series of glass collages in the Lady Chapel, drawing inspiration from portraits of women from throughout history. Maria Loizidou’s large-scale hanging tapestry of hand-embroidered migratory birds found on Merseyside explores themes of migration, coexistence and survival.
LIVERPOOL ONE
Alice Rekab’s multi-city billboard project on experiences of race, migration and belonging features co-creations with students from The City of Liverpool College, displayed across Liverpool ONE. The artist also has vinyl artwork Bunchlann/ Buncharraig (translated from Gaelic as bedrock) at Sugar House Steps.
MANN ISLAND
Anna Gonzalez-Noguchi’s sculpture at Mann Island was inspired by the historical import of ‘foreign’ plants into Liverpool. Three towers, made out of metal and reflective materials, incorporate seating, spinning elements and tubular structures engraved with records of the city’s botanical collections.
TATE LIVERPOOL + RIBA NORTH
Artists focus on grounding relationships and places, and the idea of homeland as a place of both comfort and loss. They include Hadassa Ngamba, exhibiting work from her Cerveau series in the UK for the first time, and Mounira Al Solh’s drawing and embroidery series ‘I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous’.
THE ORATORY AT LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
A selection from Petros Moris’ ‘ALONE’ series of mosaic sculptures, referencing an abandoned playground and his parent’s own mosaic studio, will be in the grounds of The Oratory.
ST JOHN’S GARDENS
Behind St George’s Hall, Isabel Nolan’s steel and concrete sculpture was inspired by a drawing of a stained-glass window from St Nicholas’ archive and leadwork in the windows of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral’s Lutyens Crypt.
THE BLACK-E
The arts and community centre hosts Turner Prizewinning artist Elizabeth Price who presents a major
single channel film, supported by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), centering on the architectural history of Catholic Modernist churches in post-war Britain.
BERRY STREET AND CHINATOWN
Anna Gonzalez-Noguchi will be exhibiting at Eurochemist on Berry Street, and Karen Tam 譚嘉文 has a multimedia installation, Scent of Thunderbolts, at Pine Court in Chinatown, integrating reimagined elements from Cantonese opera including props, stage settings, backdrops and furniture.
20 JORDAN STREET
Istanbul artist Cevdet Erek presents a new large-scale sculptural and sound installation that replicates the atmosphere, aesthetics and layout of football stadia, incorporating musical rhythms to explore division and belonging through the lens of football.
SEVENSTORE, NORFOLK STREET,
Liverpool has a trainer obsession, so SEVENSTORE in the Baltic Triangle is the perfect venue for awardwinning visual artist Odur Ronald’s No Hurry which uses aluminium printing plates to recreate a pair of battered trainers, on display among the shop’s new stock.
Explore the UK’s largest contemporary free art festival with Liverpool Biennial from 7 June - 14 September.
Cevdet Erek, inside ‘Larger Daw without Rings’, 2023, Photography by Barış Özçetin.
Alice Rekab, ‘Bunchlann/Buncharraig’, 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at Liverpool ONE. Photography by Rob Battersby.
ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHY HOTSPOTS
Millions of photos are taken in Liverpool each year by visitors and proud locals, capturing its beauty. Known for stunning architecture and a world-famous waterfront, the city offers countless iconic photo spots. While everyone has their favourite angles, here are six top picks from The Navigator, showcased by local professional photographer, Geoff Drake.
ROYAL LIVER BUILDING
The Royal Liver Building is an iconic Liverpool landmark. If you want a unqiue shot, stand outside the Town Hall and shoot down Water Street, or head to Royal Albert Dock (by The Botanist) and you’ll have the dock, the angular RIBA North and Museum of Liverpool in the foreground, or take a trip on the Mersey Ferries and celebrate two icons together.
LIVERPOOL CATHEDRAL
Liverpool Cathedral’s towering Gothic arches are awe-inspiring, and modern art like Tracey Emin’s pink neon ‘I felt you and I knew you loved me’ adds a striking contrast. If you’ve got a head for heights, take the Cathedral Tower Experience and you’ll have a breathtaking 360˚ view from the rooftop – 500ft above sea level.
THE CHINESE ARCH
The Imperial Arch, standing at 44ft tall, spans Nelson Street at the entrance to Chinatown. It’s impressive from afar, but up close reveals intricate carvings, including 200 dragons - symbolising good fortuneand five ornate roofs.
THE BEATLES STATUE AT THE PIER HEAD
According to Visit Liverpool, the statue by Andrew Edwards is the city’s most popular selfie spot. Head there at sunset and you’ll have a great silhouette of all four band members, or focus on quirky details like an L8 on the bottom of Ringo’s shoe.
STANLEY DOCK – TITANIC HOTEL
We don’t want to brag, but we’re lucky enough to
be located at one of the most historic maritime sites in Liverpool. The Grade-II listed former warehouse buildings at Stanley Dock are an architectural gem, giving a glimpse into the city’s past alongside its thriving present.
If you’re interested in photography, why not book a Photography Walk with Wirral-based professional photographer Geoff Drake? He’ll take you to some of the places featured in his books and show you tricks of the trade to get you started or take your skills to the next level.
All photography by Geoff Drake Follow Geoff on Instagram geoffdrake_images
WAREHOUSE LIVERPOOL
A NEW SHOW APARTMENT AT STANLEY DOCK’S LANDMARK TOBACCO WAREHOUSE
CELEBRATES LOCAL HERITAGE AND CONTEMPORARY STYLE
Located opposite the Titanic Hotel, the new waterfront neighbourhood of 550 New York warehouse-style homes is at the heart of Liverpool Docks’ waterfront regeneration.
TITANIC HOTEL GUESTS GAZING OUT ACROSS THE STILL WATERS OF STANLEY DOCK CAN’T FAIL TO BE AWESTRUCK BY ANOTHER LANDMARK BUILDING, THE MAGNIFICENT TOBACCO WAREHOUSE.
One of the most important buildings on Liverpool’s historic docks, its extraordinary architecture and quayside spot puts it at the heart of the city’s £14 billion regeneration boom, in which the historic docklands have a key role.
When it was built at the turn of the 20th century, as a tobacco warehouse and store for goods shipped from across the globe, Tobacco Warehouse became the largest brick building in the world, at an aweinspiring 14 storeys and with a floor area of more than 1.6 million sq. ft. Now meticulously restored and boldly reimagined, the iconic Grade II Listed building is being transformed into Liverpool’s hottest address, in a scheme of 550 warehouse-style duplex apartments and penthouses.
The homes’ interiors are a carefully balanced blend of Victorian industrial hallmarks such as bare-faced brickwork, huge multi-paned windows and cast-iron floor to ceiling columns with inspirational open-plan layouts and sleek luxurious contemporary kitchens and bathrooms.
Tobacco Warehouse’s residents have been witness to the exciting regeneration of this Merseyside hot spot and the wider city beyond, making it one of Europe’s most dynamic and exciting places to live, a true centre of cultural life, with Liverpool Biennial, the UK’s largest free festival of contemporary visual art, taking up a
six month residency last summer in the dock side commercial space.
Next door, the Ten Streets creative district is set to see historic industrial buildings transformed into eateries, bars and venues (joining existing residents like the Ten Streets Social and Invisible Wind Factory), and on the ever-evolving Liverpool skyline, the £750m Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is complete for the start of the 2025/26 season.
There’s always a stir, then, when a new show apartment is unveiled at Tobacco Warehouse, and the latest – interior designed by home-grown talent Natalie Holden, Founder of Natalie Holden Interiors –has even had a global showcase: it was handpicked by BBC producers as the backdrop for some of last year’s Eurovision contestants’ interviews.
The two-bedroom, two-bathroom 1,650 sq. ft. duplex, which offers striking views across the Stanley Dock to the Grade II* Listed Titanic Hotel, features an open-plan kitchen and dining area framed theatrically by floor-to-ceiling black pillars on its upper floor. Down the elegant stairway, lined by a metalspindled balustrade, a dramatic double-height space allows for living and entertaining on a grand scale; a huge bank of metal-framed windows allows light to pour in.
When it came to dreaming up the interiors scheme, Holden was inspired by both the building’s jawdropping Victorian architecture, its rich colours, textures and detailing, and her own childhood in the city.
“As a Liverpool local, I have driven past Tobacco Warehouse countless times, and dreamed of having the chance to design a home within it,” she says. “My team and I have paired industrial design inspiration with eclectic, contemporary furnishings and accessories, with a colour palette reflective of the building’s materials and surroundings. We’ve used a mix of heritage and earthy matt tones with finishes such as rust, ochre and teal. Luxurious materials adorn the spaces, including travertine, wood, bold velvets and textured bouclé.”
Holden has styled the upper floor to have two seating areas, with dark wood and leather vintage-style furniture, and has introduced towering modular shelving downstairs to display books, paintings and ceramics. Abstract art on the walls and huge house plants provide pops of colour and organic elements.
This multi-layered apartment has appealed to both home-hunters at Tobacco Warehouse and existing residents, who have sought Holden’s advice on how to style their own properties. It’s a testament to her success in showcasing an inviting and comfortable space for living, working, relaxing and socialising in this destination waterfront address.
The show apartment is for sale for £430,000, excluding furniture with a range of further apartments available from £275,000. For more information and to arrange a viewing visit tobaccowarehouse.co.uk or call Entwistle Green on 0151 321 0027.
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