Liverpool caught our eye this week, mostly because for a split second we were trying to understand a 1950s photograph of the Mersey as the Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong.

So let's read an extract from Helen Forrester's Twopence to Cross the Mersey, set in the 1930s.

This piece is about the theft of milk, and the response of a young policeman to the incident.

Your responses, please.

Then check out what Helen Forrester books are in the library.

Look and listen to Liverpool.

Think about how Liverpool and Hong Kong are really not so very far apart! And let's put it on the list of must-visit places in the UK.

Please note, my dear children, I am absolutely terrified about going there. No-one can say anything bad about the place (unless you live there). And you certainly can't say it looks like the last tribal land of England. Except Cornwall. That looks a bit tribal too. And Norfolk. Maybe Somerset. Newcastle? Ahem. Discuss.