The Royal Liver Building, the Cunard Building, and the Port Of Liverpool Building are part of the World Heritage Site at the Liverpool Waterfront or Pier Head where we tied up on July 4 of this year while Queen Mary 2 continued her celebrations of her 175th anniversary. From decks 6 and 7 we were able to snap photos of the stately buildings, cutting out the unfortunate acrobatics and cheap circus acts going on pier side and in the Mersey River beneath us. The buildings in the near distance not far from the dock gave me an idea what Liverpool must have been like 100 years ago and more when the heroine of my WW1 novel was supposed to dock there on the last voyage of the Lusitania (one hundred years ago this year). In those days Liverpool was more prosperous before Southampton took its place as the cruise port of Great Britain. These buildings certainly reflect that era.