Liverpool, Merseyside, UK. 6th May, 2015. AquaDucks being painted for Riverside Festival. A team of artists is decorating a host of giant ducks, themed on the city's history, in public view at Mann Island Development. The Liverpool Duck Trail, commissioned by AquaDucked, is to be launched on LightNight to showcase the vibrant creativity alive in Liverpool as well as to raise money and awareness for Macmillan Cancer Support. Credit: Cernan Elias/Alamy Live News


Artists have begun decorating giant larger than life ducks in public view at Mann Island, Development on the waterfront. The life ducks are being created as a tourist attraction throughout the city of Liverpool and as a charity fundraiser. The ducks have been painted to commemorate themed on events in history that Liverpool was the first to achieve. Liverpool constructed the first dock in the world, the first lifeboat station, the first school for the deaf, the first rugby club, the first steel ship, the first purpose built football ground, the first hovercraft service, the first cancer research centre, etc.


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