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Day 1 Shugborough Estate & Liverpool
Board our executive couch at our designated pick up points. En route to Liverpool we stop for a guided tour at a carefully selected National Trust property such as Shugborough Estate near Stafford, a late 17th century mansion and seat of the Earl of lichfield. We then travel on to Liverpool and check in to the centrally located 4* Britannia Adelphi Hotel where we stay for four nights on bed and breakfast basis. The evening is free to dine in the hotel or in town.

Day 2 Tate Gallery & Walker Gallery
This morning we have a talk introducing us to the collection at the Tate Gallery set in Albert Docks followed by time to enjoy the gallery at your leisure. We then move on to the Walker Gallery. With one of the finest collections of fine and decorative art in Europe, you have time to enjoy works by Rembrandt, Poussin and Degas, 20th century works by artists such as Lucian Freud, David Hockney and Gilbert and George and one of the most important sculpture collections outside London. You make your own way back to the hotel.

Day 3 Port Sunlight Village & Speke Hall
Today we visit Port Sunlight Village built by the Lever family for their workers. The village has over 900 listed and preserved buildings, wide streets and beautiful gardens. On arrival we visit the Lady Lever Art Gallery where we have a guided tour. After lunch we visit the National Trust’s Speke Hall, one of the country’s most famous timbered houses.

Day 4 The Lowry & Whitworth Art Gallery
Today we travel to Manchester. In the morning we have a guided tour of The Lowry. Set in a magnificent waterside location at the heart of the redeveloped Salford Quays, The Lowry is an architectural flagship. The Whitworth Art Gallery is our next stop. Our guided tour introduces us to the Gallery’s impressive range of watercolours, prints, drawings, modern art and sculpture, as well as the largest collection of textiles and wallpapers outside London. We return to Liverpool where the evening is free to dine out.

Day 5 Charlecote Park
En route home we stop at another National Trust property such as the beautiful Tudor estate at Charlecote Park in Warwick where we have time to view the house, the ‘Capability’ Brown deer park and to take refreshments before onward travel to our original pick up points.

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