The old Main Bridewell (opened 1859) is currently undergoing conversion to desirable student accommodation, but its past use meant that the occupants wanted to be there for as little time as possible and there were several daring escapes in days gone by. There was considerable embarrassment in 1865 when three men got out on a […]
BRAZIL’S EMPEROR COMES TO LIVERPOOL
With the World Cup about to start in Brazil, that country’s influence in Liverpool is more prevalent than ever before. There are two Brazilian players at Liverpool FC, restaurants such as Fazienda Rodizio, Bem Brasil and Viva Brasil in the city centre, while the annual Brazilica festival is the UK’s biggest Samba carnival. It is […]
VICTORIA’S FORGOTTEN CHURCH
Queen Victoria’s monument in Derby Square has a plaque commemorating the fact that Liverpool’s castle that once stood on the site. However that was demolished nearly 200 years before the monument was unveiled, with a church being there in the intervening period. Even when that closed, there were other plans for the site before it […]
WELLINGTON’S WAIT
Situated at the top of William Brown Street, the memorial to the Duke of Wellington will be 150 years old in 2015. Yet it could have been erected earlier had there not been so many deliberations on design and location, as well as funding and building difficulties. Arthur Wellesley began the Napoleonic Wars as a […]
DINNER SERVED ON LIVER BUILDING CLOCKS
The clocks in the famous Royal Liver Building are the biggest in the United Kingdom, despite being over 100 years old. They also contain some other superlatives, firsts and oddities, including being used as a dining table. With over 6,000 employees, the Royal Liver Assurance Company were in need of larger premises and commissioned the […]
CUNARD’S PALACE
The last of the Three Graces was completed in 1916 when the Cunard Line’s new offices opened between the Liver and Port of Liverpool buildings. The palatial new building, which was a fitting home for the company, contained many subtle features in the detail of the architecture. Cunard’s first sailing from Liverpool to Halifax and […]
NORTH WESTERN SPLENDOUR
Opposite St George’s Hall is the North Western Hall student accommodation, which opened in 1996, was once one of the grandest hotels in Liverpool. Designed in a Renaissance style by eminent Aigburth born architect Alfred Waterhouse, building of the North Western hotel commenced in 1868. It was part of an overall development of Lime Street station […]
MARK TWAIN AT THE INSTITUTE
The Liverpool Institute in Mount Street may be best known as the school where Paul McCartney and George Harrison attended in the 1950s, but eight decades earlier it was the venue for three lectures by American author and humourist Mark Twain, author of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Twain’s real name was Samuel Longhorne Clemens and […]
THE UNOFFICIAL 4TH GRACE
Around the turn of the Millennium the term ‘Three Graces’ was coined by local media to describe Liverpool’s three iconic waterfront buildings, as designs were invited for a fourth one. Various proposals didn’t materialise and the Museum of Liverpool stands there instead, but it could well be argued that the Fourth Grace has already been […]
THE GREAT GEORGE STREET CONGREGATION
Due to it being next to the largest Chinese Arch in Europe the a building dating from the 1840s on the corner of Great George Street and Nelson Street doesn’t quite get as much recognition as it deserves. The first church on the site opened in 1812, and had been built for dynamic young preacher […]
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