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    Yep, here it is...

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    ^
    And my comments from that thread where I posted the picture:

    Here's a rare close-up shot of the Customs House after it was bombed in WW2 but before it was demolished. The statue of William Huskisson (by J. Gibson) is outside. It looks like the statue is on top of the air-raid shelter but I imagine it was actually behind it.

    The statue was moved to Princes Avenue in 1954 so the photo is before that date.

    (Credit: Courtauld Institute of Art)

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    Thanks ayjaykay and WW.
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    Updated weekly with old and new pics.

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    Here's the base in Princes Avenue.
    It's interesting that the statue wasn't returned here, but placed out of sight in a "Gated" area.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Here's the base in Princes Avenue.
    It's interesting that the statue wasn't returned here, but placed out of sight in a "Gated" area.
    Probably because, as noted elsewhere, he'd previously been toppled off his perch here by local nitwits, who, knowing less about their history than they'd like to think, took him for a slave trader.

    He was replaced for a while by a 'homemade' affair but this too, judging by your picture, seems to have vanished now.



    While on the Avenue, can anyone remind me what was the name of the similarly-absent chap who used to stand at the other end, what he was noted for and what happened to him? (before coming to the avenue, he used to stand outside the first Philharminc Hall, as may be seen here- http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8716)

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    this looks like it:


    Rev. Hugh Stowell Brown (1)
    Erected in Front of Baptist Church, Myrtle Street

    Copy of a picture by Marsh, 23/11/1921 (Held at the Liverpool Record Office)
    Sculptor: Francis John Williamson
    Statue: Marble (Standing figure)
    Pedestal: Red Granite

    Stowell Brown was a preacher and social reformer. His public lectures and work among the poor brought him great renown. On his death in 1886 a statue was raised outside his chapel facing the Philharmonic Hall across Myrtle Street. When the chapel was demolished in 1954 the statue was moved to the southern end of Princes Avenue. Following the Toxteth riots
    of 1982, it was removed for safe keeping leaving an empty plinth. However the statue now lies broken and open to the elements in Croxteth Hall stable yard. A campaign to restore and re-home the statue is under way. President of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, President of the Liverpool Branch of the Peace Society and Chairman of the Liverpool Seamen's Friendly Society.

    Sources: Wikipedia, Liverpool Heritage Forum
    http://www.liverpoolheritageforum.or...ous.php?id=131
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    http://www.liverpoolmonuments.co.uk/projects/brown.htm
    Alan Maycock © 2007

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    That's the very man.
    Incredible. 'Safe keeping' indeed.
    Thanks very much for the information. I hope the campaign succeeds.

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