Old Merseyside buildings

[lindylou]

The Olympia is a very nice building.

[burkhilly]

Brougham Terrace........The building was closed up and then left for I'm not sure how long. The decision was made to open up the building and use the space and City Council started to move in staff. My department moved in there and apart from one other team, we were there only people in the building for ages. The building is fantastic with its wall and floor tiles; massive big wooden fire surrounds; wooden staircases. I was there two years, and loved the building. The house next door are not owned by City Council, and have been this way for years (at the very least 12). I think that the first house was rented to City Council during the time when the registry offices were there. Anyways when we first moved in there was access to the first house and it was like going back in time. The staircases were intact (wrought iron) the fire places/surrounds intact; the cornises and ceiling roses all intact. The basement was were the first Mosque is - it's just a wooden ceiling very small and is contained with an old stationery storeroom.

[Ged]

My dad was the Council Foreman in Brougham Terrace in 1976/77. I got to see lots of off bounds places around the back. There are passageways with victorian lean to/conservatory type roofs which link the buildings.

[gregs dad]

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Entrance to Kensington Library

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Top of Kensington Library

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Rear view of Kensington library

[gregs dad]

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The hoardings posters around the Central library are now complete. They denote the various events in Liverpool`s history from the 1200`s to the present day.
I think well worth a visit by school parties with good clear graphics and words

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Demolishing of the libraryfrom Churchill Way

[Ged]

I got very similar pics on Saturday of the Central library Joe, well done. That back part my bro tells me was what they called the Clayton Stack when he worked there in the 70s. Of course, Clayton Street then ran down the back of it and he said there was a grassed area at the back where some of the livlier staff on Sunday duties would play football at dinner time.

[gregs dad]

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Cedar House on Pemboke Place and Ashton Sreet which became the school of medical education in 2004

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The old Royal Liverpoool Infirmary now part of the University campus

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Plaque to Robert P Noonan who as Robert Tressell wrote "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists"

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The School of Tropical Medicine old and new on Pembroke place

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Galkoff`s old shop with some history of the Liverpool Jewish community on the hoardings

[gregs dad]

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All the people who put their empties cans, bottles and rubbish through the grills on the bottom of Nelsons monument this is where it goes. the grills were used as ventilation shafts for the tobacco that was stored below the Flags many years ago.

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This is 1956 when they were making the underground car parks

[lindylou]

Very interesting pics GD.

[ChrisGeorge]

In The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 12, No. 338, Saturday, November 1, 1828, available on Project Gutenberg, this early engraving of Nelson's Monument. This was before they invented Coke cans.

Chris

[gregs dad]

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"The White House" in William Brown St

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Who remembers the "Sea Circle" work of art by Charlotte Mayer in 1984,by Brownlow Hill it`s still there

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Frieze on the walls of the Walker Art Gallery

[gregs dad]

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The old Great Western Hotel on Lime Street

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The Cenotaph

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View down Lime St to Renshaw St

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Sculpture outside the side entrance of St George`s Hall

[Kev]

[GeorgePorgie]

Bit of a barrel distortion there on the Cenotaph and the Sculpture ones,Joseph....prolly down to you being too close to the columns and sculpture?

[gregs dad]

It`s called lense curvature Georgie,usally more pronounced on wide angle lens.