So the plot's history goes from - a Church - to Bakery - to a Bar.
IOW: the breaking of bread; to the making of it...and then having a drink?
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I remember it well, the name of the shop was "Kirkland Jennings", my first job in 1954 was on the next block, we used to go there for pies and cakes for lunch. It was a combination bakery, tea shop and store. You could eat there with waitress service. The bakery goods were excellent, about the best you could get.
St. Philip's Church, Hardman St. [1816-1882]
http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/a.../StPhilips.jpg
Jonathan Bennison's map of Liverpool [extract] 1835
[Image removed by request of the owner of www.leverpoole.co.uk]
According to my source, Atlantic House, now Hardman House was built on the site of the church in 1947 the Jewish Synagogue was Chaucers pub in the 1980s.
St Philip's Church was one of three of Cragg's cast-iron churches, and was replaced by St Philip's in Sheil Road (built 1885-90).
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Apologies to www.leverpoole.co.uk for publishing the Jonathan Bennison map 1835 image. I'll see if I can photgraph at the LRO, next visit.
I've redone the St. Philip's [site of] map, as Hardman Street was no wider than Pilgram Street, back in 1835. That would place the Jewish Synagogue site patially over the current road.
The Jewish Synagogue later moved to Hope Place, this in turn closed and the building is now the home of the Unity Theatre.
Ah, O'Connor's. That was probably the first pub in town I got taken to as a green north-ender. A fat bloke was reciting poetry in there, I suspect it was Adrian Henry. I got offered a pound deal in the bogs but didn't know what it was. Such innocence...