Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

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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...

[PhilipG]

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!

[Motorhemp]

Cheers - when was that taken? I

remember the building getting more and more delapidated and then a fire did the damage in your shot but when was it?

[PhilipG]

Cheers - when was that taken? I remember the

building getting more and more delapidated and then a fire did the damage in your shot but when was it?

The photo was taken in October 1986,

not long after the fire.
Some gardens in Canning Street have tiles and carved stonework from the church (which was built between 1840 & 1856).
It was

demolished in 1997.

[Motorhemp]

20 years ago - I can hardly believe it!

I was at Hope St. college (City/Central it kept changing names) doing a City and Guilds Photography then - I may have some shots of it stored away in my

loft.

Thanks for the info and photo.

[twiz]

The Sir Edwin Lutyens 'Liverpool Cathedral', it was never built so I'm not sure if it counts, but it was planned to be the biggest cathedral

on the planet with a height of 158m!

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Looks really Moscova to me...

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The Sir Edwin Lutyens 'Liverpool

Cathedral', it was never built so I'm not sure if it counts, but it was planned to be the biggest cathedral on the planet with a height of

158m!

The crypt was built. WW2 got in the way.

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I was a choirboy for

the cathedral and we'd sing a weekly gig in that crypt.

Fridays I think it was..

[PhilipG]

Where was that Lewis Hostel

DG?

Great George Street, corner of Nile Street, near Upper Parliament Street.

[lindylou]

I can just about remember the David

Lewis. I have a vague memory of going in there when I was about 13. I seem to recall that there was a cafe and we went in there for a drink and a snack.


Is that right or am I dreaming it ? Was there a restaurant in there ?

Any idea when and why it was demolished ? Was the building in disrepair ?

[ChrisGeorge]

I can just about remember the David Lewis. I have a vague memory of going in there when I was about 13. I seem to recall

that there was a cafe and we went in there for a drink and a snack.
Is that right or am I dreaming it ? Was there a restaurant in there ?

Any

idea when and why it was demolished ? Was the building in disrepair ?

I can remember being taken to see a Shakespeare play there on a school

outing while I was attending the Morrison Secondary Modern in Rose Lane. this would have been circa 1962-1963. I don't recall there being a restaurant in

the building although there might have been and I just didn't see it.

Chris