The Custom House

[Spike]

http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...tom-house.html

Thanks to Ged who spent many hours trailing the archives at the records office to find these fine photos. Many unseen before. I have added a few others along with them.

Enjoy.

What a waste to allow this building to go.

[ChrisGeorge]

http://liverpoolremembrance.weebly.c...tom-house.html

Thanks to Ged who spent many hours trailing the archives at the records office to find these fine photos. Many unseen before. I have added a few others along with them.

Enjoy.

What a waste to allow this building to go.

Excellent photographs, Spike and Ged. Many thanks!

C

[Mark R]

Great Spike & Ged

Another marvellous episode in our great councils history of destroying something worth hanging on to. (Ok I know the Luftwaffe damaged it but it was 7 years after that it was demolished) I don't know why the Germans bothered to bomb our city - our council's have done a good enough job destroying it...

[burkhilly]

Wonderful pictures Spike and Ged. What a shame it's still not there.

[Ged]

Thanks all, a great addition to the site Tony. I believe the file is now out on the open shelves at the temporary LRO.

[ericfaragh]

Wonderful collection of images of a magnificent building. A sad loss to the city.

[Kev]

Some great images on that well done those involved :-)

I've got pics of the cellars from around 2003 if they're of amy use. They are on yo somewhere.....

Sent from the back of Michael Caine's Mini Cooper S, holding on for dear life......

[Spike]

Some great images on that well done those involved :-)

I've got pics of the cellars from around 2003 if they're of amy use. They are on yo somewhere.....
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Yep Please

[gerry_2]

Great pictures.Ged& Spike. The only place now left standing in Canning Place is the Baltic Fleet.

[Spike]

I worked on The Baltic Fleet during the refit in the 1980's

[Johnny Robbo]

This is a print of The Old Custom House, Liverpool, from a painting by the late Malcolm Butts in the Inverbeg Gallery in Scotland.

[Davec]

He has a similar style to John Atkinson Grimshaw...

http://www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org/...oms-House.html

[Johnny Robbo]

He has a similar style to John Atkinson Grimshaw...

http://www.johnatkinsongrimshaw.org/...oms-House.html

Thanks Dave, that's interesting, especially the alternative painting on the site entitled Liverpool Custom House & Wapping in which Grimshaw shows the Custom House from an almost identical position to Butts. Grimshaw did not seem to have much luck with the weather...........
Johnny R

[dazza]

Thanks Dave, that's interesting, especially the alternative painting on the site entitled Liverpool Custom House & Wapping in which Grimshaw shows the Custom House from an almost identical position to Butts. Grimshaw did not seem to have much luck with the weather...........
Johnny R

Thanks Johnny,

Butts painting is more accurate than Grimshaw's. Grimshaw liked to get all his ducks in a row. In Grimshaw's painting - Wapping, the Custom House, and the Strand, all form a neat, straight, streetline, which was never the case. It looked more like Butts staggered arrangement.


Some more Custom House related images. The group of early warehouses shown here are the subject matter for each painting, but shown from different vantage points, and from different periods. (from the LRO):



Left to right.

1. (left) WG Herdman painting titled "Old Dock Sill" dated 1860, from the Custom House looking at the southside of Canning Place. Mersey Street is just off to the left, but out of view. The bollards represent the middle of the Custom House and would lead through the middle arcade of the building. (LRO: Herdman Col. 111d.)

2. (middle) Same view again by WG Herdman, three years earlier, in 1857. This time the corner of Mersey Street can be seen to the left. The corner of the Custom House railings can also be seen. (LRO: Herdman Col. 500)

3. (right) The same view again, but from the north-east Salthouse Dock transit shed stone gable (demolished - the south east end gable still survives) painted later in 1869. (LRO: Herdman Col. 897)

[gerry_2]

The other pub in Canning Place was called The Custom House, it was close to the old shipping pool. But I dont know when that closed down.

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There was also a pub in Canning Place called The Custom House, it was right next to the old seamans pool. I dont know if that was still open in the 80s it was managed by pal of mine Jimmy Mcaliney, Jimmy later went on to manage the Bluebell in Huyton