The first Juvenile Court in Britain opened in Liverpool in 1925, situated in a former chapel that is now student accommodation. The Victoria Chapel, a Welsh Calvanistic chapel opened in 1880, being built to replace one in Pall Mall that was demolished to allow Exchange Station to be extended.It was in use for forty years […]
BRITAIN’S FIRST MOSQUE
Brougham Terrace may be synonymous with many Liverpudlians of a certain age as the place where non church weddings took place, but it also goes down in history as the site of Britain’s first mosque, which opened in 1889. Twelve Georgian terraces were built at the top of West Derby Road in 1830 and named […]
DOCTOR BORN IN A NIGHTCLUB
One of Liverpool’s most famous nightclubs is situated in a building that was the birthplace of a man who became the first Medical Officer for Health, saving thousands of lives with his analysis of where problems occurred. William Henry Duncan was born to Scottish parents at what is now the Blue Angel nightclub in Seel […]
GLORIOUS PAST OF FUTURIST
One of the buildings most desperately in need of renovation in Liverpool city centre is the old Futurist cinema in Lime Street, which has been derelict since the 1980s after being one of the top entertainment venues in town. The cinema was the first in Liverpool city centre, opening its doors on 16th September 1912 […]
LIVERPOOL CITY CENTRE’S LAST PUBLIC HANGING
Although public executions were a common event outside Kirkdale gaol after it opened in 1819 until they were stopped in 1864, there were very few in the centre of Liverpool. This was because capital crimes were tried in Lancaster, with any necessary executions taking place there. There were occasional exceptions though. In 1715 several Jacobite […]
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