elcome 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.
We are delighted to be celebrating the hotel’s 10th birthday in July and what a 10 years it has been, including winning Hotel of the Year at Visit England’s 2023 Awards for Excellence, Hotel of the Year in 2021 and 2022 at the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards, and Maya Blue Wellness receiving a 5-bubble rating from the Good Spa Guide. There are a few exciting things planned in the next few years, and we are really looking forward to it.
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 the Bees: A Story Of Survival exhibition at the World Museum, to the Southport Flower Show to In The Park Festival in Sefton Park, it's such an exciting time for the city.
We have all of Liverpool’s culture, events and leisure on our doorstep and want to show you the varied and vast offerings so that you can make the most of your stay.
Please enjoy this anniversary issue of The Navigator, we hope it makes your stay in our beautiful hotel more special.
What's On Your summer event programme
is available to access on your TV)
Waterside Bars Where to soak up the summer sun
Titanic Turns 10 From then to now; a look back at our story so far
10 Film & TV Hits Shot Along the Mersey Lights, camera, action...
WHAT’S ON...
July August
CREAM CLASSICAL
July 13 • Sefton Park
Part of this year’s In The Park Festival line-up, Cream Classical returns to Sefton Park on Saturday with the 50-piece Kaleidoscope Orchestra and a set list of dance anthems curated by K-Klass. DJs include Armand Van Helden, Paul Oakenfold, Roger Sanchez and Judge Jools with live performances from Jocelyn Brown, Inner City, Robin S and Angie Brown from 2pm to 10pm.
BOWIE EXPERIENCE
July 19 • M&S Bank Arena
Direct from the West End, this spectacular concert celebration of David Bowie is an absolute must-see for fans of the legendary singer. The show brings the golden years of Bowie back to the stage featuring all the hits from his incredible career spanning decades, including Life On Mars, Space Oddity, Starman and Rebel Rebel.
BEYOND VAN GOGH
Until July 24 • Exhibition Centre
Already seen by more than five million people across the US and Canada, Liverpool’s Exhibition Centre will be transformed into a stunning immersive Van Gogh art experience. More than 300 masterpieces, with classics such as The Starry Night, Sunflowers and Café Terrace at Night will be brought to life, appearing and disappearing and flowing across ceilings, walls and floors.
PRIDE IN LIVERPOOL
July 27 • Pier Head
Liverpool will be walking on sunshine this summer as Eurovision winner Katrina, of Katrina and the Waves, leads this year’s Pride celebrations. Katrina, who took the Eurovision title in 1997 with Love Shine a Light, will perform on the main stage at the Pier Head in a free concert following the annual March with Pride, which sees thousands walking from St George’s Hall to the waterfront.
METAMORPHOSIS
Until March 2025 • Walker Art Gallery
Comedian Johnny Vegas, who studied art and ceramics before switching to stand-up, has rediscovered his creative talent in a new collaboration with internationally recognised sculptor Emma Rodgers. The exhibition at the Walker, inspired by its historic objects and created in bronze, clay and 3D printing, explores the idea of metamorphosis – a mental or physical transformation.
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
August 3 • Speke Hall
Summer means outdoor theatre season and settings don’t come any more beautiful than the grounds of Speke Hall. Take along a chair or a rug and enjoy an evening production of one of Shakespeare’s classic comedies performed by the critically acclaimed Pantaloons. Expect plenty of silly slapstick, nincompoop behaviour, memorable music and the Bard’s timeless poetry.
From concerts to comedy tours, Liverpool is home to a bursting selection of events over the next three months.
September
TOM JONES
August 17 & 18 • Salt and Tar
Music legend Tom Jones, one of the biggest icons in pop with a career spanning six decades and more than 100 million records sold, is the superstar headliner for the second edition of the Music Weekender at Salt and Tar in Bootle. He’ll take to the stage on Saturday and Sunday night for a hip-swivelling set featuring hits like It’s Not Unusual, She’s a Lady and Delilah.
LIVERPOOL CELEBRATES
August 23 - 26 • Pier Head
Liverpool Celebrates is paying tribute to the city’s legends, pop icons, the world-famous Mathew Street Festival and The Cavern across a Fab Four days. Friday’s main stage will be dedicated to some muchloved Liverpool music names with Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s charismatic frontman Holly Johnson alongside The Lightning Seeds, Space, China Crisis and Tea Street Band.
LIVERPOOL GOSPEL MUSIC FESTIVAL
September 9 • Stanley Park
Stanley Park in north Liverpool, between the two football grounds, is hosting an all-day outdoor festival of gospel music. The event brings together internationally acclaimed artists like The Kingdom Choir and CalledOut Music with local talent from Liverpool and the North West in a family-friendly, fun day out for gospel music fans from the city and across the country.
AN EVENING WITH GRAHAM NORTON
September 13 • Liverpool Empire
He’s become a national TV treasure as the host of BBC’s Friday night talk show The Graham Norton Show, as well as being the voice of Eurovision and a best-selling author. Now the Irish presenter is doing a UK tour where he’s in the hot seat for a change, sharing tales from his celebrity sofa, discussing his latest book Frankie and taking live questions from an audience.
AZEALIA BANKS
September 21 • Mountford Hall
Controversial US singer and rapper Azealia Banks is never a stranger to making headlines, and this autumn she’s getting back out live and heading to the UK for a tour which comes to Liverpool for one night. She might only have released one album, 2014’s Broke With Expensive Taste, but there’s been plenty of output over the past decade to guarantee a memorable show.
THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE
September 21 - October 12 • Everyman Theatre
From Martin McDonough, the acclaimed writer of In Bruges, The Pillowman and The Banshees of Inisherin, this shocking and sadistically funny production won an Olivier Award for Best Comedy with its West End run starring Poldark actor Aidan Turner. What will happen when ‘mad’ Padraic returns home to Inishmore off the west coast of Ireland with pet revenge on his mind?
turns
At the heart of Liverpool’s historic docks, once the largest and most complex system of docks in the world, Stanley Dock was a masterpiece of design by engineer Jesse Hartley.
Completed in 1854, six years after nearby Bramley Moore (soon to be Everton FC’s new ground), the North and South Warehouses were similar in design to their revolutionary predecessor, the Albert Dock.
Constructed from brick, stone, iron and mortar, these innovative massive warehouse buildings represented the pinnacle of industrial dock architecture of the Victorian period.
The North Warehouse, now home to Titanic Hotel, was once a pivotal part of Liverpool’s success as a global trading hub, storing rum and tobacco imported from the other side of the world.
With the outbreak of World War II, the docks were a key target for German bombing raids and in December 1940 they were hit by a threeday bombardment causing fires and structural damage. The east end of the North Warehouse, damaged in an air raid in 1941, was rebuilt in 1953 as a rum warehouse.
Post-war, the red brick buildings lay empty and decaying, and most of the buildings were placed on the Heritage at Risk Register. Over decades, a succession of developers were put off from taking on its regeneration due to the monumental scale of any potential project.
In 2010, Dublin-based Harcourt Developments bought the historic site – a year after breaking ground on the equally ambitious Titanic Belfast – and were undaunted. They weren’t just aware of the difficulties created by its condition, scale, location and heritage status, they were attracted by what could be achieved once those hurdles were overcome.
A visiting professor to Liverpool in 2012 described Stanley Dock as "the biggest adaptive re-use challenge in Europe" but Harcourt had faith in the enduring appeal and potential of industrial heritage and work began on the Grade-II listed site in January 2013.
With the first phase of the development entirely privately funded, works involved replacing a badly leaking roof, making walls and floors structurally sound, rebuilding the collapsed west parapet and restoring the original character following conservation guidelines.
A major objective was to retain as much of the historic fabric, character and industrial aesthetic as possible so all original window/door openings were used and any changes kept to a minimum.
On July 5th 2014, a little over a year after work started, the once derelict shell had been completely transformed - Titanic Hotel Liverpool and Rum Warehouse opened to the public for the first time.
Heritage consultant John Hinchcliffe, former World Heritage Site officer for Liverpool City Council, said: "This is probably the last major collection of historic waterfront buildings in the UK, if not Europe, to undergo reinvention for the 21st century."
In March 2015, the next piece of the jigsaw was added with the launch of Maya Blue Wellness, with treatment rooms under original exposed brickwork arches making the most of the building’s architectural heritage.
Two years later, a second stunning 180-capacity wedding and events space –West Bay – opened. Again, retaining the Victorian steel pillars, vaulted brick ceilings and stone floors of Jesse Hartley’s original design.
Today, we’re proud to say that the restoration of North Warehouse at Stanley Dock, with Harcourt’s vision for Titanic Hotel at its centre, has been the catalyst for a bold regeneration in this part of the city as it aims to be at the forefront of Liverpool’s dynamic future.
Maya Blue Wellness - Before
Maya Blue Wellness - After
South Elevation of North Warehouse, circa 1920
Tobacco Warehouse, circa 1920
All roads lead to Liverpool for film and TV crews thanks to our incredible architecture, riverfront and ability to double for anywhere from New York to Moscow.
Liverpool Film Office recorded its busiest ever year in 2023, hosting 301 productions and almost 2,000 filming hours in and around the city.
The grade-II listed red brick warehouses of Stanley Dock around Titanic Hotel are one of the most sought-after locations with crews using it as a backdrop to shoot big budget blockbusters and TV series.
Sometimes the buildings are recognisable, sometimes they’re harder to spot – disguised or distorted by the magic of CGI.
Here are 10 movies and TV series filmed along the Mersey…
The 2009 film version of Sherlock, starring Robert Downey Jnr and Jude Law as the detective and his sidekick Dr Watson, used Stanley Dock as the backdrop doubling for London warehouses where some life or death action sequences are set. Fans will recognise Liverpool as the duo chase after the main villain, Lord Henry Blackwood, who sets an explosive trap that engulfs Watson in flames.
The Harry Potter spin-off prequel Fantastic Beasts was set in 1920s New York but much of it was filmed in Liverpool. Not only did St George’s Hall feature heavily, especially at the beginning of the movie as the stage for a chaotic political rally, but the Cunard Building – one of the landmark Three Graces - was also transformed into New York’s flagship department store Macy’s.
St George’s Hall played its part again in 2022’s The Batman, when Robert Pattinson took over the iconic role as the caped crusader in his latest movie outing. But the spectacular scene which grabbed all the attention, and gave Liverpool audiences goosebumps, was the one shot two years earlier on the balcony of the Liver Building aka Gotham City Police Department.
In the early 1980s, before Liverpool was such a magnet for productions, the legendary Barbra Streisand came here to shoot scenes for the epic Yentl which she directed, co-wrote, co-produced and starred in. The film sees Streisand as Yentl, a Jewish woman masquerading as a man so she can learn, setting sail for the USA on what was actually an Isle of Man ferry on the Mersey!
Liverpool was a regular haunt for the Shelby clan, and played a pivotal role in the season one finale –the big showdown with Billy Kimber. Tommy Shelby and his ruthless rival were involved in a shoot out, filmed outside the Tobacco Warehouse at Stanley Dock. The cobbled walkways around the docks doubled as the Birmingham streets outside the Garrison Pub, the Shelbys’ business HQ.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
Big screen, big budget action was at Stanley Dock again for the filming of the Marvel franchise movie Captain America: The First Avenger. More than 500 cast and crew came to Liverpool to transform the city’s docklands into 1940s New York and in the first fight scene, Steve Rodgers (played by Hollywood actor Chris Evans) can be spotted chasing down a Hydra agent through the docks.
Actor Jude Law was in Liverpool in a different guise when he filmed the 2004 remake of the Michael Caine classic Alfie. Playing the serial dating Cockney, he shot scenes here including one on the beach where Alfie discusses changing his womanising ways with friend Joe - filmed on Formby beach - and when buys flowers for long-time fling Liz at a flower shop on Brunswick Street.
No surprise that the 2014 film Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit featured some pretty electrifying chase scenes, which is where Liverpool stepped up to star. Jack Ryan, played by actor Chris Pine, shot a nighttime car chase through the streets of what was supposed to be Moscow but was really around the Strand, Water Street and alongside the Three Graces, ending at Canada Boulevard.
Not the original cult classic gangster movie, but the Paramount + TV drama which took its characters back to their younger days. The eight-part series was filmed in Liverpool over six months from autumn 2022, including an opening scene paying homage to the memorable sunbathing one featuring Ray Winstone, which was shot on a rooftop at Stanley Dock, CGI-ed to become London.
TAYLOR SWIFT’S I CAN SEE YOU
It’s not a film or a TV series, but it does feature the biggest musical superstar on the planet. Shooting the video for Taylor Swift’s I Can See You took over part of the Cunard Building back in April 2023. She took time off from her Eras Tour to film down at the Pier Head and nearby on Castle Street for the video which also features actress Joey King and Twilight’s Taylor Lautner.
ALFIE
JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT
SEXY BEAST
PEAKY BLINDERS
ANNIVERSARY
Liverpool is famous all around the world for its spectacular waterfront, and at Titanic Hotel, we’re lucky to have some impressive waterside views of our own.
When the sun’s shining, there’s no better place to order a cocktail and make the most of every moment of summer in the city. Raise a glass to our 10th anniversary with a chilled drink or two at one of these 10 bars and pubs with beautiful waterside views …
In the business district, on the 18th floor above Gino D’Acampo’s restaurant, Sky Bar Terrace is a prime spot to soak up the sunshine. Over 270ft off the ground, it has views over the river and the city, an extensive cocktail list and Champagne by the magnum if you want to go all-out before heading inside to the 360 Sky Bar for late-night DJs.
PANORAMIC 34
Only one thing matches being able to sit by the water with a drink, and that’s getting a stunning view of it from above. As the name suggests, Panoramic 34 towers above the city, 34 floors high, so views from the cocktail lounge are breathtaking. The menu features signature specials, classics and Champagne cocktails alongside international wines.
When you think waterfront, what comes to mind is the iconic Three Graces and few places give a better view than Goodness Gracious roof garden at Oh Me Oh My. Up on the 8th floor of West Africa House, with an entrance on The Strand, it opens for summer weather permitting from Thursday to Sunday for cocktails under an al fresco glitterball!
Even closer to the Three Graces, Matou is the Mersey’s nearest neighbour. At the Pier Head, the glass-fronted restaurant overlooking the water is known for Pan Asian dishes but it’s the outdoor space which has a real wow factor for drinks. Get a picture postcard perspective on the city with a great choice of gins, classics and imaginative in-house cocktails.
THE ONE O'CLOCK GUN
Royal Albert Dock has lots of bars with outdoor seating looking out onto the inner quay, but if it’s the traditional pub experience you prefer then The One O’Clock Gun is the number one choice. It serves locally-brewed beers in cans and bottles plus a signature One O’Clock pale, as well as wines, spirits and cocktails. There’s also regular live music.
Reminders of Liverpool’s maritime heritage are everywhere you look at Titanic Hotel, and especially on our colonnades where you can enjoy cocktails overlooking the waters of the historic Stanley Dock. Try one of the many speciality imported rums in our Rum Bar and experience the exotic flavours of the Caribbean and South America far closer to home.
THE LAKE HOUSE
Along the river towards Crosby, The Lake House at Waterloo takes full advantage of its water’s edge location with a lawned area, outdoor seating and wooden chalets so you can get protection from the odd summer shower. It has live acoustic performances in the daytime on Saturdays and Sundays, so you can combine cocktails, music and sunsets.
Beyond Royal Albert Dock, heading south along the Mersey, Liverpool’s Marina has a newly revamped bar which gives Riviera vibes thanks to all the beautiful boats moored there. The Anchor has a fairy-lit outdoor terrace which offers a front-row yacht scene so you can sit back with a drink and relax to the sound of masts gently clanking.
On Crosby Beach, overlooking the shoreline and Antony Gormley’s famous Iron Men statues, you’ll find one of the most unusual waterside bars – a converted open-top double-decker bus that’s familyfriendly and an award-winner for Liverpool’s besthidden gem. It even does a frozen Aperol.
Liverpool’s side of the river is the most famous, but cross to Wirral and the views are pretty impressive there too. Head to Parkgate – known for its homemade ice cream – and discover The Ship, a 19th century coastal inn on the banks of the Dee estuary, popular for local cask ales on tap, best enjoyed on the wraparound terrace.
summer on the docks
Step outside the city this summer and treat yourself to a midweek night away at the Titanic Hotel Liverpool.
Enjoy an overnight stay, wine in your room on arrival and a delicious full English breakfast the next morning, from £125 per couple.
During your stay treat yourself to a light lunch or dinner from our new summer menu in Stanley’s Bar & Grill, relax in the Maya Blue Wellness or explore what attractions this vibrant city has to offer including Bees: A Story Of Survival exhibition at the World Museum*.
Book your Titanic break today, call 0151 559 1444 or visit titanichotelliverpool.com.
*Dinner, treatments / thermal access and attractions must be pre-booked and are subject to availability.
559 1444
summer at stanley’s
Titanic Hotel’s theatre style restaurant Stanley’s Bar and Grill has unveiled its new spectacular summer menu, with the delicious dishes expertly created around seasonal produce and summer flavours.
Scrumptious starters include Caprese salad with buffalo mozzarella, heritage tomato, fresh basil, aged balsamic or garlic king prawns with roasted red pepper and tomato ragu, herb crostini or even chickpea hummus and flatbread.
When it comes to the main course there’s plenty on offer. Why not try crispy belly pork with sautéed potato, bean fricassee, grain mustard Café au Lait or pan roasted sea bass fillet with saffron potato, green beans, burst cherry tomato, salsa verde, candied lime.
Although the summer menu has a selection of unique dishes, British classics, homemade pasta and a plant based selection is also present, along with a delicious dessert section.
Sounds too good to miss, pop down to book a table call 714 from your room, 0151 482 5783 or email stans.hostess@titanichotelliverpool.co.uk
CAPTAIN’S FAREWELL
In order to celebrate the hotel’s 10th Anniversary, our team of mixologists at the Rum Bar have created a special Rum cocktail to celebrate the occasion.
Ingredients
• Don Papa
• Cointreau
• Lime Juice
• Gomme
• 2 Dashes Angostura Bitters
• Apple Juice
Method
• Chill a rocks glass with ice
• Shake ingredients with the cubed ice
• Strain over cubed ice into a rocks glass
• Garnish with a mint sprig and an orange twist
Pop down to Rum Bar and try one for yourself for just £10.
A NEW SHOW APARTMENT AT STANLEY DOCK’S LANDMARK
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 £500m Everton Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is taking shape.
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 openplan kitchen and dining area framed theatrically by floor-to-ceiling black pillars on its upper floor. Down the elegant stairway, lined by a metal-spindled 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 vintagestyle 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 £265,000. For more information and to arrange a viewing visit tobaccowarehouse.co.uk or call Logic Estates on 0151 920 2404.
