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Due to Personal commitments,My plan to visit Australia has been delayed by 4 weeks, so its gonna be the first week in april.
I plan on visiting Liverpool NSW which is about 30 miles out side of Sydney,maybe stay a week.
BUT THEN!
I plan on visiting Liverpool Shire council about 200 miles from Sidney, This is where the Liverpool Mountain range and plains are.
So There are 2 Communitys called Liverpool in Australia.
I'm really excited to go on this trip as it should mean the end of my quest to visit all the populated Liverpools in the World.
In my opinion the criteria for proof of an established Liverpool community is a "Grave Yard" and an existing governing council this proves habitation over a period of time.
And it saves me visiting all the numerous PLACES called Liverpool,But who know's maybe one day?
Well Finally got the tickets
I'll be in Sunny Liverpool,
5th April till 17th April.2007.
so stay posted for updates.
Phil Bimpson is uniting the Liverpools of the world - if only by his presence.
The English Liverpudlian landed in Liverpool NSW last week to take his world tally to seven ''Liverpools''.
The global odyssey began when a friend asked what Mr Bimpson would do if he won the lottery.
''I told my friend I would go to Liverpool in Australia,'' Mr Bimpson, 51, said. ''At the time I thought it was the only sister city.
''Then I found out there were more, many more. I managed to whittle the number down to about nine which are occupied. There was one in Brazil, but it was basically a stick.
''I'd love to go there, but who wants to see a stick?''
His self-funded journey began last year when he left England for Liverpools in Nova Scotia, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Texas and Pennsylvania.
After two months of touring, he returned home to make enough money for his trip down under.
Mr Bimpson can't get enough of Liverpool history, whether it's his home town or one across the seas.
His first stops here were Liverpool Library, where he intended to spend five minutes but ended up staying four hours, and a quick visit to the Champion office.
''It was so funny,'' Mr Bimpson said. ''I said I was leaving for Oz when I left home but I wouldn't be seeing the wizard. Then I ended up meeting a wonderful woman named Dorothy at the library.''
Mr Bimpson said prominent Liverpool businessman Harry Hunt had been a ''diamond'' and he had been staying at Hunts Motor Inn on the Hume Highway.
On Saturday he collected images and data for a documentary, or ''potted history'', he intends to put together from his travels. And already he is a familiar face at the Corner Pub on Moore Street, where the patron who bought him his first drink walked away with a signature red souvenir ''Liverpool'' hat.
He was treated yesterday to a tour of the city courtesy of Liverpool Council, which he said had provided a wealth of information in ''brilliantly'' collated guides and brochures.
Mr Bimpson leaves us tomorrow for Liverpool Plains Shire Council, which is about 60 kilometres south-west of Tamworth.
But he won't be going straight back home after that. He needs to visit another Liverpool in the US that he discovered after his last trip.
''It's a personal quest for the benefit of all Liverpudlians or Liverpool-ites around the world,'' the self-proclaimed ''No.1 ambassador'' for Liverpool, England said.
''In all the Liverpools, I just rode into town. The people are the same: it's that Liverpool friendliness.
''Of all the Liverpools, this is the most like England's; it's cosmopolitan. I want to see it develop the same pride that we have back home.
''Something very humanitarian is going on here.''
You can see Mr Bimpon's his photo diary and video collection at www.myliverpools.piczo.com.
Happy 800th: Gabrielle Kibble will give several copies of this city's birthday book to Liverpool in England next month. Picture: Angelo Velardo
LIiverpool Council administrator Gabrielle Kibble will take a small dose of our city with her when she visits the English city of Liverpool next month.
The home town of the Beatles, Liverpool will be celebrating its 800th birthday in September.
Mrs Kibble will take with her a recorded video message for the Mayor of the Merseyside city and a NSW Liverpool picture book compiled by the council after the birthday event's organisers requested it.
She said it just happened that she was planning to visit friends in London at the same time as the celebration, so she can squeeze in a four-day stay in Liverpool on the trip, which she is paying for herself.
''They invited all of us to attend,'' Mrs Kibble said, with ''us'' meaning representatives from those places across the world that are called Liverpool.
She says the book is a marvellous way of presenting Liverpool here to the English Liverpool and that it highlights our Liverpool's attributes, such as the diverse heritage, rich multicultural society and retail, commercial and recreation areas.
Mrs Kibble will fly out on Monday, September 3, and will be away for two weeks.
She said she hoped to meet again Phil ''Mr Liverpool'' Bimpson, the Englishman who was here this year as part of his mission to visit and document the Liverpools in the world.
The picture diary of Mr Bimpson diary can be seen at www.myliverpools.piczo.com.
The birthday celebrations of Liverpool in England mark 800 years since King John granted the city's charter.
Our own Liverpool will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2010.
