Welcome to Liverpool

These are Clarence Dock gates through which 1,300,000 Irish people passed in the years 1845 to 1852 to escape the Famine. Some then caught another boat to New York, others ventured further afield in Britain, but many stayed.

There is a small blue plaque on the wall to the right to commemorate them. I have taken the liberty of enlarging it and moving it into the frame.