The boutique hotel that is 62 Castle Street may be situated in what was the Trials Hotel, but there has never been any court cases or police presence in the building, which was actually used for banking for 120 years. The Grade II listed building at the corner of Castle Street and James Street was […]
WALTON’S ZOO
Today it is just one of many takeaways in the Walton area, but Didi’s in Rice Lane is situated in a building with plenty of history, being the last remaining trace of a zoo which was there in Victorian times. The first zoological gardens in Liverpool were situated off West Derby Road and opened in […]
WHO WAS DICKIE?
The statue above the main entrance to the old Lewis’s department store in Ranelagh Street has been the meeting place for many a courting couple. Affectionately known as “Dickie Lewis’s”, it is also the “statue exceedingly bare” referred to in the song In My Liverpool Home, but what is the real name and origins of […]
LIVERPOOL’S FIRST EQUESTRIAN STATUE
There are four equestrian statues in Liverpool, the oldest of which took quite a while for the plans to come to fruition due to the popularity of the monarch in question. In 1808 a public subscription was announced to raise funds for a statue of King George III to commemorate his 50th anniversary on the […]
THE 1ST CASHPOINT IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND
Nowadays it just looks like any other bank, just like dozens of others in the city centre but the Santander branch at 84 Church Street was the sight of Liverpool’s first cash machine and the first in the North of England. Back in 1967 the building was occupied by Martin’s Bank. It had been in […]
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