Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

[Waterways]

If you're including 'Structures' in the building's category...as in the 'Docker's Umbella', then surely we should add the Old Dock as well?

Liverpool has Herculaneum, Harrington, Toxteth, Union. Part of Dukes, Kings, Victoria, most of Trafalgar, parts of Sandon, Parts of....etc..docks, that are filled in as well. Then there is the Dingle Oil Jetty. Various dock accumulator towers as well. Then there is New Brighton Tower.

[dazza]

Liverpool has Herculaneum, Harrington, Toxteth, Union. Part of Dukes, Kings, Victoria, most of Trafalgar, parts of Sandon, Parts of....etc..docks, that are filled in as well. Then there is the Dingle Oil Jetty. Various dock accumulator towers as well. Then there is New Brighton Tower.

We could do with a list, and then just debate on the order?

[Quentin_Sharples]

Yes, a great thread and well worthy of resurrection.

So, just to recap so that none are repeated and some listed here can be looked back at over the previous pages.

The Liverpool overhead railway - due to costly maintenance.
The Customs House - fire damaged only by WWII incendiary bombs.
The three ugly sisters, clarence dock power station. Due to being abolished.
St. Johns Market. For St. Johns precinct.
Liverpool's tram system. Supposed progress of buses instead of as well as.
The Theatre Royal. For road widening at Williamson Square.
Brindley Warehousee at Dukes dock. Due to being abolished/disuse.
Guiness Clock curved row at St. Georges Place. For St. Johns precinct.
Sailors Home. Only because of falling into disuse.
Strand Buildings. For newer buildings.
Old Hutte, Halewood. Abandonment.
Jericho Farm, Otterspool. Fields being bought by the city council for building.
David Lewis Theatre. Only because of falling into disuse.
Cotton Exchange frontage. Another moment of madness, only for a new build.
Helliwells Buildings, Castle Street. ?
Tram Depots. Finally after many years of the abolishment of trams.
Myrtle Street childrens hospital. Falling into disuse - new building.
The Labour Exchange, Leece Street. Failed road widening scheme.
Owen Owen warehouse on St. Anne Street - destroyed by fire.
Liverpool Castle. Fell to bits then replaced after a market by St. Georges. Ch
Liverpool Tower. Dismantled due to lack of need.
Rotunda Theatre. WWII bombed but only finally demolished in the 1960s
Pier Head baths. New lay out of the Pier Head area.
Central Station frontage. Lost to redevelopment.
Emmanuel Church, West Derby road. Failed new road layout.
Hippodrome Theatre. Failed new road layout.
Bootle Hospital. Still standing but abandoned.
Northern Hospital. New Leeds st layout and restructuring of hospitals.
Southern Hospital. New housing development and hospital restructuring.
St. Pauls eye hospital. Amalgamated into the Royal Hospital.
Benns Gardens - Sth Castle st area for new law courts.
Building to the rear of the Municipal buildings - lost through WWII bombing.
Mayfair cinema?
Toxteth congregational church?
Little sisters of the poor convent on Aigburth Road - for new housing.
The Hamlet church?
The Garston Hotel pub. Fell into disrepair.
Mason street housing. Age/disrepair. Mole of Edge hill frontage still up.
St. Chrysostoms Church?




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Mayfair cinema? Replaced by a new Kwik-Save.
Toxteth congregational church? Demolished by the church themselves. They moved to a house round the corner.
Little sisters of the poor convent on Aigburth Road - for new housing.
Which never happened.
The Hamlet church? Demolished by the church itself, who kept part of the premises for services. Sheltered accommodation at the front.

[wsteve55]

Hi QS,welcome to Yo! (p.s.do you do any discounts?)

[Quentin_Sharples]

Can someone let me know when the Sailor's Home and the David Lewis Theatre were demolished? I think I remember seeing both at some time in the past. I never saw old Lime Street, but I've seen photos on Ged's site, and there's no comparision to what's there today - that ugly precinct!

The Sailors' Home was demolished in 1976, and the David Lewis went in 1980.

Thanks, wsteve55.

[Waterways]

Look at this:
Liverpool' Destroyed Landmarks

[underworld]

I'd have liked to have seen the row of buildings on Commutaion Row restored where the Court House Pub was. I used to have a pint in there. The licensee was Barbara Dean - The daughter of Dixie Dean. Also te Legs of Man on the other corner was a great building.

[Waterways]

I'd have liked to have seen the row of buildings on Commutaion Row restored where the Court House Pub was. I used to have a pint in there. The licensee was Barbara Dean - The daughter of Dixie Dean. Also te Legs of Man on the other corner was a great building.

The destruction of Commutation Row was a crime - along with 1000s of others. It would like to see a replica - well the frontage.

[Ged]

I remember the Dean's having the clock around the corner on London Road which they renamed Dixies and is now paddys. The courthouse in the 70s/80s was managed by my arl mate and neighbour Dom Wiles who also worked in the legs of man and the lord warden in spells.

[underworld]

[underworld]

I remember the Dean's having the clock around the corner on London Road which they renamed Dixies and is now paddys. The courthouse in the 70s/80s was managed by my arl mate and neighbour Dom Wiles who also worked in the legs of man and the lord warden in spells.

Barbara Dean was there in the late 80s up to when it closed down. She then went to Shotton in North Wales.

[Ged]

There's an actual pic of it on my site, donated by a contributor. A great looking building.

[underworld]

Customs House

[pablo42]

Nice one UW.

[underworld]

Or the old Pier Head building



This is from a postcard I have.