"Liverpool excited her." Rachel in Greenbanks takes a tram from the "begrimed terracotta buildings of the University" (now cleaned and very red) down to the docks where "there were great American liners...Lascars lounging on the quayside, and a great Biblical cloud in the sky that looked as if God ought to be sitting on it". Today, this view of the Three Graces (the Royal Liver Building, Cunard Building, Port of Liverpool Building plus the Mersey Ferry) seen here in a 1930s photo by JH Williams still excites.