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    Myrtle Gardens

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    Bob Edwards
    , 05-16-2015 at 12:48 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    Myrtle Gardens

    During the 1930s large blocks of tenements were built in Liverpool under the direction of Lancelot Keay, Director of Housing from 1925 and later City Architect. One of the surviving examples is Myrtle Gardens, now Minster Court.

    Liverpool had already built some large multi-storey schemes of more conventional design in the suburbs in the later 1920s. The broader ambition of the Corporation and its architects was seen fully in the schemes which followed.
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