Having lived in this building and so i've a certain affection for it, I was surprised to find there was so much LRO information and photos of its construction. After its original use, the Liverpool Corporation used it for their architects department before Stanley Racing took it over as its Liverpool headquarters but it's now up for sale again, just this month.
The Photos below were created by Colonel Stratton Davis - Architect and are courtesy of and located at the LRO (though now out of copyright)
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The finishing touches can be seen getting put to this building in 1934 on the film and photographs showing the Queensway tunnel being opened. Therefore, all in all, it didn't really take that long in being built for a building its size.
The first 4 photos are described as follows:
22/7/33 Workmen asphalting the main staircase area
27/5/33 Manual labour (no, not a Spanish bloke) on the site
27/5/33 Excavation of the Trueman Street side of the site
27/5/33 Excavation of the Fontenoy Street side of the site
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