Liverpool: Eulogy For The Lost by Frank Cottrell Boyce

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Source: Liverpool City Council

Catholic writer Frank Cottrell Boyce gave this powerful eulogy yesterday at St George's Hall, Liverpool, to mark the first anniversary of the Covid-19 pandemic:

We're coming to you from the concert room at St. George's Hall.

This is the first building in the world to have air conditioning.

A labyrinth of Victorian cast iron brings warm air in and takes stale air away.

This building breathes

When Dickens performed here, he called it the most perfect room in the World.

When he read here or Lesley Garret sang here or lovers exchanged their vows here it literally took their breath away.

And now the singing and the laughter have stopped

Even Liverpool has had to learn to walk alone.....

To read the full text and see Frank Frank Cottrell Boyce give his eulogy, click HERE