Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

[Waterways]

...or 5 bulidings I wish we still had and without which the city is a lesser place...

1. Overhead Railway.
Structures like

these become of great cities, and our one was indeed part of that vision. An awful loss not to still have it, and with the developments in the pipelines it

would have become ever more relevant and ever more iconic. If I become a billionaire I will rebuild it! As was!!

A very sad loss.

2. Customs House.
Where that awful Halifax is on the Strand. Again, it was recoverable save for the historic age-old Liverpool

lurgy of self-interested, bent petit-politicos.

The building was repairable. It was only burnt out, not bombed. London wanted the Customs in the south, so Liverpool was raped again.

3. The Three Ugly Sisters.
Structures like these are the mark of great cities. I thought they were part of what our city, what our docks were about. Only lack of vision or soul allowed them to blitzed. If they were still there the redevelopement uses for them would be pretty exciting.

I'm glad they went. I hated them. The power station was built on Clarence Dock, which still can be excavated.

4. The Old St.Johns buildings.
Seen them in pictures. They looked wonderful. Shame we lost that pile.

5. Gettin rid of the tram network. Understandable at the time but really a disaster. Ooops!

Most of the lines are still there.

- The round theatre from the 1700s In Williamson Square (Union Cold Storage used it).

- The Dukes Dock Brindley warehouses.

- All the in-filled Docks in Liverpool and the Wirral.

- The terraced row opposite Lime St station (the Guiness clock neon signs)

- Sailors Home

- The warehouses and buildings along the Strand near James St.

etc.

[ChrisGeorge]

A very sad loss.



The

building was repairable. It was onky burnt out, not bombed. London wante the Customs in the south, so Liverpool was raped again.

3. The

Three Ugly Sisters.
Structures like these are the mark of great cities. I thought they were part of what our city, what our docks were about. Only lack of

vision or soul allowed them to blitzed. If they were still there the redevelopement uses for them would be pretty exciting.
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I'm glad they

went. I hated them. The power station was built on Clarence Dock, which still can be excavated.



Most of the lines are still there.

-

The round theatre from the 1700s In Williamson Square (Union Cold Storage used it).

- The Dukes Dock Brindley warehouses.

- All the in-filled

Docks in Liverpool and the Wirral.

- The terraced row opposite Lime St station (the Guiness clock neon signs)

- Sailors Home

- The

warehouses and buildings along the Strand near James St.

etc.[/QUOTE]

The Old Hutte at Halewood - a medieval manorhouse of the Ireland family

swept away when the Ford Factory was built

Jericho Farm in Otterspool

[shytalk]

Another historic

building that went was the David Lewis building. With modernisation what a fantastic hotel it could have been.

[The Teardrop Explodes]

Another historic building that went was the David Lewis building. With modernisation what a

fantastic hotel it could have been.

Do you have a pic?

[PhilipG]

Do you have a pic?

Yes.

Too many cinemas,

churches and schools have gone.
Apart from the buildings already mentioned, here are a few more that shouldn't have gone.
The original frontage of the

Cotton Exchange in Old Hall Street.
Helliwell's Buildings in Castle Street.
Any of the Tram Depots.
Most of the terraced houses were needlessly

demolished (North Liverpool has managed to keep a lot).
The Children's Hospital in Myrtle Street.
The Labour Exchange in Leece Street.
The Owen

Owen Warehouse in St Anne Street (but that was destroyed by fire).

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- The round theatre from the

1700s In Williamson Square (Union Cold Storage used it).

- The Dukes Dock Brindley warehouses.

- All the in-filled Docks in Liverpool and the

Wirral.

- The terraced row opposite Lime St station (the Guiness clock neon signs)

- Sailors Home

- The warehouses and buildings along

the Strand near James St.

etc.[/QUOTE]



I'd love to see to pics of this stuff. I have seen the neon Guiness block and you're

absolutely right, that was a proper city vista.

[underworld]

I'd have liked to have seen the row of buildings on Commutaion Row restored where the Court House Pub was. I used to have a pint in there. The licensee was Barbara Dean - The daughter of Dixie Dean. Also te Legs of Man on the other corner was a great building.

[Waterways]

I'd have liked to have seen the row of buildings on Commutaion Row restored where the Court House Pub was. I used to have a pint in there. The licensee was Barbara Dean - The daughter of Dixie Dean. Also te Legs of Man on the other corner was a great building.

The destruction of Commutation Row was a crime - along with 1000s of others. It would like to see a replica - well the frontage.

[Ged]

I remember the Dean's having the clock around the corner on London Road which they renamed Dixies and is now paddys. The courthouse in the 70s/80s was managed by my arl mate and neighbour Dom Wiles who also worked in the legs of man and the lord warden in spells.

[underworld]

I remember the Dean's having the clock around the corner on London Road which they renamed Dixies and is now paddys. The courthouse in the 70s/80s was managed by my arl mate and neighbour Dom Wiles who also worked in the legs of man and the lord warden in spells.

Barbara Dean was there in the late 80s up to when it closed down. She then went to Shotton in North Wales.

[RonnieW]

I remember the Dean's having the clock around the corner on London Road which they renamed Dixies and is now paddys. The courthouse in the 70s/80s was managed by my arl mate and neighbour Dom Wiles who also worked in the legs of man and the lord warden in spells.

I'll bet he would remember my dad, Tony Williams, who worked as a railwayman at Lime Street between 1943 and 1973. He worked as a barman at the Lord Warden, Legs of Man and The Courthouse in the 1960s.Sadie was the manageress at the LoM, and I remember Bob who was married to the manageress at the Lord Warden. He was in the army in WW2 and told us the story of how him and his mate captured a high ranking German officer who turned out to be a Dutch copper.
Another good bloke who drank in the Lord Warden was a veteran of WW1, aJewish tailor, whose son had a boutique under Concord House. His name was also Tony, but I don't recall his surname. No doubt I'll remember it in due course! That's age for you!

[Ged]

It's a small world eh Ronnie.

[dazza]

Underworld's post#147 - Lord St./ Church St. showing "Bunnies"

If you look in the middle of the photo in Church St. you can see the 1st. F.W.Woolworth building to be established in Britain, 1909.

Notice the gable-end of the building, by the chimney, the advertising says:

Woolworth
6d STORES

[underworld]

Yes I see it too. And also the Edinburgh Cafe on the immediate left. By the way, thanks to whoever posted the guidance for zooming in and out on the forum its really usefull. Ctrl and + or Ctrl and - .

[underworld]

Here is another one of Church Street. It may have some buildings of interest. I particularly like the street lamps in this pic. They look Chinese.

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