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    Quote Originally Posted by lindylou View Post
    This bit - street level ? I'd have to be there and see it to work it out.

    I'm wondering where you are standing .. behind the fence ? is this where you can look over to the track ?
    Hi Linda,

    I photographed the area through a hole in the wall with permission to be on the school site of course.

    Have a look at the attachement. Just below the left corner you can see where I have photographed the corner structure behind which, I was standing when I photographed it.
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    Between Chatsworth bridge, where the arch was, and the tunnel portals was the original Edge Hill station. The steps took people down to the station. The station along with Crown St station was abandoned in 1836 and moved over to the end of the Lime St newly dug tunnel.

    The map shows the current Edge Hill stn (1836). Liverpool had abandoned two railway stations before London even had a rail station. Because of the moving of the station, this leaves Broad Green Station as the oldest station in the world.
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    Excellent pic Kev!

    A few more can be found here:

    http://michael-delamar.fotoblog.co.uk/c855157_1.html

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    Taken from the archives of the Pearsons of Liverpool book:

    That part of Smithdown Lane was once taken over as a secure compound for Pearsons!




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    Inspecting the Railway 1930: LRO
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    I never found out why the steps were knocked away. There was no erosion I'm sure.
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    The Moorish Arch - designed by architect John Foster (jnr) and completed in 1830. The railway itself was opened to the public on 15th September 1830. The then Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington [of battle of Waterloo fame] also attended and would have himself passed through the arch as part of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway inauguration.

    The arch served a practical purpose. The column like walls either side of the arch housed the steam engines that provided the power to rope haul the train and carriages from Crown Street station up the embankment. According to Hugh Hollinghurst, John Foster and Sons, Kings of Georgian Liverpool it was demolited in 1860, as part of a track widening programme.

    Why a 'Moorish' arch though? H.H. [above] doesn't offer an explanation. And so far to date most of the buildings by John Foster (jnr) were in the Greek Revival style. I would like to think it had something to do with the mystery and exoticism that travel possesses. And in a way the arch was a new gateway to the future. I think it was a kind of postcard advertising access to a rapidily shrinking and still largely unknown world out there.


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    Fascinating thread with lots of great images.

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