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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Everton Beacon

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post
    Everton Beacon, the small round tower, was built as a Bridewell or lock-up in 1787, however, the original beacon built to guide ships using the Mersey estuary stood over half a mile north of the round tower. It was built by Ranuf, Earl of Chester, in around 1230. The building was a plain square two storey building and housed a kitchen on its ground floor and a guardroom upstairs, it is said to have blown down during a storm in 1802.

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