In Mill Street, Dingle there is a building that is currently empty and had been a factory for a number of decades, which was once a theatre that could hold 1,100 people. The Park Palace was opened in 1893 and designed by J H Havelock-Sutton. Initially opened as a theatre for variety shows, it was […]
ENGLAND’S SMALLEST HOUSE IN A PUB
The Cock & Bottle pub in Wavertree High Street has absorbed into it what was once the smallest house in England. The pub’s address is 93 Wavertree High Street, with the house formerly being 95. The house was built in the middle of the 19th Century in what was a passageway. At 6 feet wide […]
VICTORIAN SELF STORAGE
In recent years large warehouses have been cropping up all over the place allowing people to de-clutter by storing their excess belongings. It’s not such a recent phenomenon though, as in Park Road in Dingle there is a large warehouse which was built in the 19th Century for exactly the same purpose. Coleman’s Depositories were […]
THE TITANIC BANDSMEN
Castle Street is one of Liverpool’s original seven streets and steeped in history, some of it quite noticeable such as the Bank of England and medieval sanctuary stone. The street’s connection with the Titanic though is far more discreet, the building concerned showing no reference to it. 14 Castle Street, now a firm of solicitors, […]
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