ONE of Liverpool’s biggest tourist attractions remained shut to visitors today after modernisation works overran for a second time.
The tower of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral attracts 30,000 visitors a year but has been shut for around five weeks to install new lifts.
The attraction was expected to re-open at the end of February.
After works overran a new opening date was set for yesterday, but that deadline was also missed.
A Cathedral spokesman was last night unable to confirm when it would reopen.
The attraction is a major source of revenue for the diocese, with adult tickets costing £5.
It is understood that visitors flouting the rules on the number of people in the lifts – a maximum of three for the upper tier – had contributed to the lifts breaking down.
They are to be replaced with bespoke lifts with a larger capacity, which should hold six people.
The new lifts are costing £80,000.
