Hi all
I have passed this house many times in Grafton Street, L8. It's number 313, and I just wonder if anyone knows anything about it?
It is so out of place on that street!
Hi all
I have passed this house many times in Grafton Street, L8. It's number 313, and I just wonder if anyone knows anything about it?
It is so out of place on that street!
hiya philip
Thanks for that.
I always thought the house had something to do with maybe the church, i.e a priests house, just because of the architecture and the way it looks.
i wonder if the people who live in the house know....
I was round there today, and was trying to figure out the address when somebody came out of the building next door.
This building is 91 Mount Pleasant (the man came out of 89).
Both 89 & 91 are the Aachen Hotel.
91 has that great (cast-iron?) window.
Apart from saying they were originally built as houses (c1800), I don't know much else, but if they were windows at the very top it may have been something like an artist's studio.
Checking street directories would provide more clues.
For instance, in 1936 the building was listed as "Thomas Evans, apartments".
83, 85, 87 & 89 were all "Temperance Hotels".
Last edited by PhilipG; 12-29-2006 at 06:11 PM. Reason: More info.
Not exactly Rodney Street.
I took one of the Phil gates.
I was mostly in Hope Place/Hope Street, then Mount Pleasant.
Spookily enough, somebody walked past me, & the thought flashed through my mind that it might be Carrie?
And to think it probably was?
I've no idea what you look like!
Last edited by PhilipG; 12-29-2006 at 06:23 PM.
spooky indeed!
I was in the car when I saw someone taking pics of some engravings above a door in Rodney street...and when I saw you had been around there today...
My pic is in the gallery on this site...for my sins!
did you have a beige jacket on?
i saw someone taking pictures and joked to carrie that it might be you!
hi nancy
i dont think its the same building that i was looking at before
i think you may have been on st james st or jamaica st.
i dont know if its still there im afraid
http://www.toxteth.net/maps/liverpool/lpool1a.htm
I think it's Jamaica Street going away from town, but I'm confused by the sign to "Docks 1-10".
I'm not really up on docks, but I thought all the south docks had been closed by the 1980s.
Anyway, if it is Jamaica Street, I think that building is what remained of the African Oil Mills.
As Bunf says, it's not the Guinness building that was in his photo (Essex House - the one opposite the Swedish Church).
Whether it's still there, I couldn't say.
It's about time I went round that area again.
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