Liverpool retains a large part of its Georgian heritage. Althougha considerable amount has been lost this century, many of the remaining buildings have been sensitively restored particularly in the Rodney Street/Canning Street area.

Rodney Street was one of the first of the new residential streets created by Liverpool's wealthy merchants at the end of the eighteenth century. Today, the street still captures the elegance of an earlier Liverpool; the buildings are beautifully preportionedand sit side by sidein harmony, enhanced by subtle differences in door styles, railings and other features. Little wonder that both the University of Liverpool and the John Moores University are based here in the extensive network of streets and squares that run between the dominant features of the city's two cathedrals.