Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

[snappel]

Originally Posted by The Teardrop

Explodes;23671

Does anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like

that.

I'm doing my best to photograph as many of the remaining ones as possible (Stanley Dock, Royal Liverpool Infirmary, Heap Rice Mill, etc) before

they change and lose their originality (see my website link below), but hopefully the structures will be preserved.

I'm finding it quite hard to find

'period' photos of a lot of places on the web - I think I should really pay a visit to the library and see what I can find there. Still, lots of old photos

are kicking about, such as on the toxteth.net website.

......oh, and Liverpool Castle/Tower guys!!

[Kev]

I'm loving this thread, the OHR was a gem.

Originally Posted by The Teardrop Explodes

Does

anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like that.

I

don't know about a "ready pictorial archive", but I've got a lot of photos of Liverpool.
They all need scanning.
But I'd like to see what other

people have got as well.
Considering that there are a lot of photographers in this group, it would be good to see their photos of demolished buildings.

[Kev]

Originally Posted by PhilipG

I don't know about

a "ready pictorial archive", but I've got a lot of photos of Liverpool.
They all need scanning.
But I'd like to see what other people have got as

well.
Considering that there are a lot of photographers in this group, it would be good to see their photos of demolished buildings.

Very soon I

shall have a couple of CDs with these images on free from copyright I believe. Like the ones I've been posting recently, only many many more. Watch this

space.

[The Teardrop Explodes]

Originally Posted by PhilipG

I

don't know about a "ready pictorial archive", but I've got a lot of photos of Liverpool.
They all need scanning.
But I'd like to see what other

people have got as well.
Considering that there are a lot of photographers in this group, it would be good to see their photos of demolished

buildings.

Where was that Lewis Hostel DG?

I suppose the motivation for threads like this isn't just wishing we these incredible

buildings back with us, (and to be honest I really do wish we had some of them) it's also vital if we as a city come to demand the same high-level

production values from the developers in today's and tomorrow's built environment, as those best-practice examples that went before..

Also, I'm a

huge fan of great modern architecture but I also wish we could talk seriously about actually rebuilding buildings occaisionally when to do so brings back

that which was lost. Like identity. Like history. Like just... wonderful buildings.

I literally would replace-pretty much exactly-the OHR, for

instance.

[Motorhemp]

I always liked the run down church on the corner of

Catherine and Canning streets but its knocked down and flats built there now. Anyone got a photo of that?

[The Teardrop Explodes]

"I always liked the run down church on the corner of Catherine and

Canning streets but its knocked down and flats built there now. Anyone got a photo of that?"


.....haven't but the people to blame for that are

the council and the 'developers' local slumlords Lacy Roofing for that heap of kaka they've bequethed the city with. Slap bang in the middle of the

Georgian quarter too. Thanks lads.

[Motorhemp]

I know there's got to be a balance between new and old and that

nothing lasts forever etc. but that block of flats is so characterless and sticks out like a sore thumb around that area...

Originally Posted by Motorhemp

I always liked the run down church on the corner of Catherine and Canning streets but its knocked

down and flats built there now. Anyone got a photo of that?

October 1986.
Not one of my best pics, but better than nothing!