Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

[The Teardrop Explodes]

...or 5 bulidings I wish we still had and

without which the city is a lesser place...

1. Overhead Railway.
Structures like these become of great cities, and our one was indeed part of that

vision. An awful loss not to still have it, and with the developments in the pipelines it would have become ever more relevant and ever more iconic. If I

become a billionaire I will rebuild it! As was!!

2. Customs House.
Where that awful Halifax is on the Strand. Again, it was recoverable save for

the historic age-old Liverpool lurgy of self-interested, bent petit-politicos.

3. The Three Ugly Sisters.
Structures like these are the mark of

great cities. I thought they were part of what our city, what our docks were about. Only lack of vision or soul allowed them to blitzed. If they were still

there the redevelopement uses for them would be pretty exciting.

4. The Old St.Johns buildings.
Seen them in pictures. They looked wonderful.

Shame we lost that pile.

5. Gettin rid of the tram network.
Understandable at the time but really a disaster. Ooops!

Waterways, have

you got any more?

Originally Posted by The Teardrop Explodes

...or 5 bulidings I wish we still had and without which the city is a lesser

place...


Waterways, have you got any more?

Can only Waterways answer?

[Waterways]

Originally Posted by The

Teardrop Explodes;23626

...or 5 bulidings I wish we still had and without which the city is a lesser place...

1. Overhead Railway.
Structures like

these become of great cities, and our one was indeed part of that vision. An awful loss not to still have it, and with the developments in the pipelines it

would have become ever more relevant and ever more iconic. If I become a billionaire I will rebuild it! As was!!

A very sad

loss.

2. Customs House.
Where that awful Halifax is on the Strand. Again, it was recoverable save for the historic age-old Liverpool

lurgy of self-interested, bent petit-politicos.

The building was repairable. It was onky burnt out, not bombed. London wante the Customs

in the south, so Liverpool was raped again.

[/quote]
3. The Three Ugly Sisters.
Structures like these are the mark of great cities. I thought

they were part of what our city, what our docks were about. Only lack of vision or soul allowed them to blitzed. If they were still there the redevelopement

uses for them would be pretty exciting.
[/quote]

I'm glad they went. I hated them. The power station was built on Clarence Dock, which still can

be excavated.

4. The Old St.Johns buildings.
Seen them in pictures. They looked wonderful. Shame we lost that pile.

5. Gettin

rid of the tram network.
Understandable at the time but really a disaster. Ooops!

Most of the lines are still there.

- The

round theatre from the 1700s In Williamson Square (Union Cold Storage used it).

- The Dukes Dock Brindley warehouses.

- All the in-filled Docks

in Liverpool and the Wirral.

- The terraced row opposite Lime St station (the Guiness clock neon signs)

- Sailors Home

- The warehouses

and buildings along the Strand near James St.

etc.

[snappel]

I don't think the LOR or tram network really constitute 'buildings', but you've listed five good entities

nonetheless.

Not sure about the power station though - just look at the issues surrounding Battersea, it's a nightmare at the moment. Word on the

street is that the original concrete chimneys are getting replaced with fibreglass replicas... Still, if they'd just kept the chimneys of the Clarence Dock

station that would've remained a distinctive landmark.

It would be nice to see more of the dockside warehouses/goods yards etc still around, but you

can't keep everything, and thankfully we still have Albert and Stanley Docks as good examples of these kinds of sites.

[ChrisGeorge]

Originally Posted by Waterways

A very sad loss.



The

building was repairable. It was onky burnt out, not bombed. London wante the Customs in the south, so Liverpool was raped again.

3. The

Three Ugly Sisters.
Structures like these are the mark of great cities. I thought they were part of what our city, what our docks were about. Only lack of

vision or soul allowed them to blitzed. If they were still there the redevelopement uses for them would be pretty exciting.
[/quote]

I'm glad they

went. I hated them. The power station was built on Clarence Dock, which still can be excavated.



Most of the lines are still there.

-

The round theatre from the 1700s In Williamson Square (Union Cold Storage used it).

- The Dukes Dock Brindley warehouses.

- All the in-filled

Docks in Liverpool and the Wirral.

- The terraced row opposite Lime St station (the Guiness clock neon signs)

- Sailors Home

- The

warehouses and buildings along the Strand near James St.

etc.[/quote]

The Old Hutte at Halewood - a medieval manorhouse of the Ireland family

swept away when the Ford Factory was built

Jericho Farm in Otterspool

[shytalk]

Another historic

building that went was the David Lewis building. With modernisation what a fantastic hotel it could have been.

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Originally Posted by PhilipG

Can only Waterways answer?

Oh aye. Sorry about that, just that I've been quite enjoying

Wat's postings for a while now. Always seem to learn stuff from our past I never knew.

Got a bit of an obssession with the docks, as were, and the

proper industrial scale buildings and environments which remain there.

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.

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Originally Posted by shytalk

Another historic building that went was the David Lewis building. With modernisation what a

fantastic hotel it could have been.

Do you have a pic?

Originally Posted by The Teardrop Explodes

Do you have a pic?

Yes.

Too many cinemas,

churches and schools have gone.
Apart from the buildings already mentioned, here are a few more that shouldn't have gone.
The original frontage of the

Cotton Exchange in Old Hall Street.
Helliwell's Buildings in Castle Street.
Any of the Tram Depots.
Most of the terraced houses were needlessly

demolished (North Liverpool has managed to keep a lot).
The Children's Hospital in Myrtle Street.
The Labour Exchange in Leece Street.
The Owen

Owen Warehouse in St Anne Street (but that was destroyed by fire).

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- The round theatre from the

1700s In Williamson Square (Union Cold Storage used it).

- The Dukes Dock Brindley warehouses.

- All the in-filled Docks in Liverpool and the

Wirral.

- The terraced row opposite Lime St station (the Guiness clock neon signs)

- Sailors Home

- The warehouses and buildings along

the Strand near James St.

etc.[/quote]



I'd love to see to pics of this stuff. I have seen the neon Guiness block and you're

absolutely right, that was a proper city vista.

[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.

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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?

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"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!