Bohemian Liverpool

In attempting to write an account of all the bohemian enclaves within Britain I never intended to begin with Liverpool. I wanted to focus on small towns and villages such as Stroud, Totnes, Glastonbury, or the myriad of boho villages in western and central Wales. I knew that I wanted to eventually include those oasises of boho culture that were encased in large towns and cities, but Liverpool is not the most obvious large monotonous urban area to begin with, there’s no area in Liverpool that even approximates the Soho of London, the Mission of San Fran, or the French Quarter of New Orleans in their heyday or even now. There’s no warehouse district, no gayasfolk zone or late night coffee house other than the Starbucks that is submerged within the Borders at the Speke Retail Park, but such a café on the Boho scale of things is somewhere to the left of zero. Liverpool is, however, the British city that I am most intimately acquainted with, and so that’s where this blog will begin.