Art Deco Liverpool and wider area

[PhilipG]

Here's the plaques from around the Tithebarn St. building. Definitely a connection with the sea...Neptune, fish, ships, Liverbirds and the Coat of Arms.
Considering the links Liverpool has with shipping, very few buildings have plaques/artwork like these.
I thought it might have been offices for a shipping line or something of that nature...but I've no idea.

Joseph Sharples in "Liverpool" says:
It was built 1928-31 as the College of Commerce by the City Surveyor, Albert D. Jenkins.
"Corner crowned with a sculpture of Neptune in a ship's prow.
...reliefs of shipping by Hooper & Webb."
Sharples describes the style of the building as "Classical".