Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

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...or 5 bulidings I wish we still had and

without which the city is a lesser place...

1. Overhead Railway.
Structures like these become of great cities, and our one was indeed part of that

vision. An awful loss not to still have it, and with the developments in the pipelines it would have become ever more relevant and ever more iconic. If I

become a billionaire I will rebuild it! As was!!

2. Customs House.
Where that awful Halifax is on the Strand. Again, it was recoverable save for

the historic age-old Liverpool lurgy of self-interested, bent petit-politicos.

3. The Three Ugly Sisters.
Structures like these are the mark of

great cities. I thought they were part of what our city, what our docks were about. Only lack of vision or soul allowed them to blitzed. If they were still

there the redevelopement uses for them would be pretty exciting.

4. The Old St.Johns buildings.
Seen them in pictures. They looked wonderful.

Shame we lost that pile.

5. Gettin rid of the tram network.
Understandable at the time but really a disaster. Ooops!

Waterways, have

you got any more?

[PhilipG]

...or 5 bulidings I wish we still had and without which the city is a lesser

place...


Waterways, have you got any more?

Can only Waterways answer?

[snappel]

I don't think the LOR or tram network really constitute 'buildings', but you've listed five good entities

nonetheless.

Not sure about the power station though - just look at the issues surrounding Battersea, it's a nightmare at the moment. Word on the

street is that the original concrete chimneys are getting replaced with fibreglass replicas... Still, if they'd just kept the chimneys of the Clarence Dock

station that would've remained a distinctive landmark.

It would be nice to see more of the dockside warehouses/goods yards etc still around, but you

can't keep everything, and thankfully we still have Albert and Stanley Docks as good examples of these kinds of sites.

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Can only Waterways answer?

Oh aye. Sorry about that, just that I've been quite enjoying

Wat's postings for a while now. Always seem to learn stuff from our past I never knew.

Got a bit of an obssession with the docks, as were, and the

proper industrial scale buildings and environments which remain there.

Does anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would

be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like that.

[snappel]

Does anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like

that.

I'm doing my best to photograph as many of the remaining ones as possible (Stanley Dock, Royal Liverpool Infirmary, Heap Rice Mill, etc) before

they change and lose their originality (see my website link below), but hopefully the structures will be preserved.

I'm finding it quite hard to find

'period' photos of a lot of places on the web - I think I should really pay a visit to the library and see what I can find there. Still, lots of old photos

are kicking about, such as on the toxteth.net website.

[MissInformed]

......oh, and Liverpool Castle/Tower guys!!

[Kev]

I'm loving this thread, the OHR was a gem.

[PhilipG]

Does

anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like that.

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.

[Kev]

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.

Very soon I

shall have a couple of CDs with these images on free from copyright I believe. Like the ones I've been posting recently, only many many more. Watch this

space.

[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.