""My favourite is always the beer festival," said Deacon Paul Mannings when asked about some of the less conventional events hosted at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King."
""When it first happened, on a Saturday morning, there was a queue around the block. I thought oh, they've heard about my guided tours! When I got there, the queue was for the beer festival.""
""It's fascinating for me to see how shipwrecks that have lain there and been dived for for years and years still have new things to reveal every time people go and dive them," he said."
Historic England added 199 new sites to the National Heritage List in 2025 and upgraded protections for other locations. Listing grants legal protection against certain changes to places of special architectural or historical interest, and anyone can recommend a building for listing. The Pin Wreck, the only known surviving shipwreck of its type, was discovered 35 years ago and identified in 2024 as a naval vessel from the mid-19th to early 20th century. The wreck is named for hundreds of yellow copper bolts and was found 27m under the sea off St Alban's Head. A steam mooring lighter with Victorian equipment and early diving gear is believed lost in 1903 while travelling from Portsmouth to Portland, and paintings suggest the vessel assisted in saving HMS Eurydice off the Isle of Wight in 1878. Long-dived shipwrecks continue to reveal new information with each visit. Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King hosts unconventional events, including a beer festival that once drew a queue around the block on a Saturday morning.
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