The recent Liverpool Echo article about the plan to develop the old Cain's brewery as a tourist attraction bodes well for this historic building.
Cain's is a magnificent building and it would be great to see something useful become of it instead of it being swept away as, unfortunately, has happened with other local historic buildings.
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It strikes me that this might provide an opening for a Toxteth Heritage trail that might include Cain's along with the
Florence Institute -- a similar red terracotta building to Cain's and of similar vintage --
St. James Church, St. Patrick's RC Church, Park Road, the
Princes Road Synagogue, Princes, Otterspool, and Sefton Parks, the Brook House, Ringo's former houses, the
Ancient Chapel of Toxteth, St. Michael's-in-the-Hamlet, etc.
Historic or Heritage Trails are very big here in the United States. Beginning in the 1990's, where I live in Maryland, my friend Robert Reyes and I lobbied local politicians and government agencies to establish a
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail to celebrate the events of 1813-1814 that led to the writing of the Star-Spangled Banner. We managed to catch the attention of politicians and the trail was signed into law by President George W. Bush. I have no doubt whatsoever that similar could be done for Toxteth, with an interested history-minded advocates and a public that would like to visit these historically and culturally interesting sites.
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