It was still dark outside when the first mourners flocked to Liverpool Lime Street to make the trip down to London this morning.
As the station's advertising boards paid tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II ahead of today's State Funeral, plenty of people from Merseyside felt compelled to head to the capital to soak up the atmosphere and be part of history. The funeral will start at 11am today, at Westminster Abbey, following four days of the Queen lying in state, where hundreds of thousands of people queued for hours to see the the monarch's coffin.
Dot Lloyd and her daughter, Jenny, were among those boarding the 7am train down to London. Dot, 70, told the ECHO: “I’ve loved the Queen all my life and my daughter’s always said if anything ever happened to the Queen she’d take me to London. What other person works for 70 years?”
