We used to call it the Davie Loo - used to sit on the steps after walking part way home from town. The Shanghai club (the shangy) was just up the street round the back of it - but that's another story!
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We used to call it the Davie Loo - used to sit on the steps after walking part way home from town. The Shanghai club (the shangy) was just up the street round the back of it - but that's another story!
The David Lewis is on the right. A superb building. I doubt it would be demolished today.
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Below: 1976 when it was still used.
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Side view down Nile St 1966.
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Waterways, have you got any more images of the triangular Place where the Guiness ad was? Was it St. Johns/ St.Georges Place? Whatever, that looked like a handsomely laid out space, car-park or no car-park. Wish that was still there.
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Originally Posted by Waterways
It's depressing when you realise that out of those three photos only the cathedral and the bank remain.
Everything else has gone.
Love the colour one.
Waterways. Fantastic pictures ! I only had a vague memory of the place so it's great to be able to see the pics. :)
Jees, wasn't Liverpool beautiful? :disgust:
Just further up Gt George St passed the Davie Loo was Henry Willis the Organ makers. They built the largest organ in the world in the cathedral - they just had to carry it over in bits. A scruffy looking green building with peeling paint.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterways
My cousins lived in Rathbone St, in a basement, the street off to the right. I was the cleanest house in the world - literally. Rathbone was prominent in the anti slave trade movement.Quote:
Slightly OT, but has anyone got a copy of Seaport: Architecture and Townscape in Liverpool by Quentin Hughes? It was published in 1964 and has many photos of buildings that are probably gone now. I've finally tracked down a copy of this through Abebooks online, I've wanted this book for a long time (I used to check it out from the library fairly often, but it's no longer there). Just fantastic photographs, really worth seeking out.
Yes, I've got a copy, but not for sale, unfortunately.Quote:
Originally Posted by nancy o.
It was reprinted in 1993 (by The Bluecoat Press) with an up-to-date postcript, so it should still be available.
Beautiful B & W photography.
what was that great old pile down from the Post Office at the bottom of Hardman St (opposite St.Lukes)? It had a sort of red brick, unusual concave frontage. Got razed in about 1990?
Was a bit shocked by that decision. Any idea why it had to go?
http://www.yoliverpool.com/images/do.../c%20house.jpg
I've posted my thoughts on the Custom Building plus the Old Dock here. :disgust::rolleyes::PDT_Xtremez_12: Shame.
It was the Labour Exchange.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Teardrop Explodes
It had been built in 1904 as a block of shops and offices.
Very early on it was a car showroom called Argyll's.
At one stage there was talk of a new road in that area which was why there was some demolition round the corner in Renshaw Street.
It was a good Edwardian building and was demolished in 1995.
The old Cotton Exchange in Old Hall Street was a lovely building.
Scanned this pic from a book called Liverpool Then & Now ISBN 1872568033
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/cotton.jpg
:mad: :mad: :mad: oh my god.....this all makes me so so so so angry!!!
This is why the likes of the Florence Institute has to be saved.
We are seeing the same today with the destruction of the dock system. Not only that, inappropriate developments such as the Kings Dock stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by MissInformed
You see why these groups emerge to prevent further butchering and amateurish inappropriate planning and architecture.
Yikes! I remember that building well. A shame it is gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
Chris
My top building would have to be the old Central station, with it's big arched roof & splendid cast iron vaulting. Had it not been for that sh*te, Dr Beeching, with his BR rationalisation axe, would probably still be around). The building at the front of the station (the CLC's old offices) was nice too & complimented both Lewis' on the LHS & the Lyceum on the RHS. A sad loss to Ranelagh St IMHO.
Central Station.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scouseinmanc
Old postcard.
Please don't tell me this is gone??? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by scouserdave
Yes, the Cotton Exchange was, I believe, one of Liverpool's casualties during the Blitz of 1941.Quote:
Originally Posted by XL391
Chris
The Cotton Exchange escaped the war intact, but not the 1960s modernisers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge
The front was pulled down in 1967 and rebuilt in a "modern" style.
The rest of the building is still there.
what an utter shame.
Like so many other buildings on this thread.
It amazes me how or who makes the decisions to demolish these things.
Like the Cavern...
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Originally Posted by PhilipG
Thanks for correcting my misconception that the Cotton Exchange was a Blitz victim. I am glad to get the corrected information.
Chris
yes, they put a bland and boring frontage on it. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
How's about Emmanuel - Everton. Demolished in 1972/3 for a supposed road widening scheme and to this day, the footprint of the church is still empty!!
The only consolation was that the bells were taken out and are now housed in Christ Church - Bootle.
Is that the church that was West Derby rd ( by the Grafton?)
My great grandparents were married there.
That's the one, a real shame it was pulled down. We have the council to thank for that one. (no surprise there!)
That was also the reason given for demolishing the Hippodrome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
And all they ever did with the site was use it as a Builders' Supply yard!
The Liverpool City Council or whoever made the decision to demolish all of those wonderful buildings should be brought to task, that is vandalism of the worst kind; losing the Sailor’s Home was bad enough but still they continue destroying any vestige of the industry that made Liverpool known around the world, the maritime industry … That is your heritage, Britain has young men and women, in foreign lands, putting their lives on the line in the name of democracy while at home the same democracy is being denied the people … a main tenet of democracy is "the will of the majority", I doubt the decision to demolish was not put to the citizens of Liverpool?
This photo is from "Liverpool: This Is My City" (1972) by Richard Whittington-Egan.
The Nautical Catering College, on the left, was built in 1965-6 and was demolished for the Paradise Street Project.
The Sailor's Home was opened in 1850 and was demolished in 1976.
The site then remained unused for 30 years.
The new John Lewis store is nearing completion on the site of these two buildings.
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one of my fave Liverpool books Philip
I was only looking at that yesterday! thanks for posting..
A bit late reading this. Thanks for the info about the Emmanuel John. We lived across the road from there close to the Olympia Pub. This is where the church once stood. You can just make out the Thomas Bowden Drinking Fountain in the background.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jona76
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/emmanuel.jpg
My great grandparents were married at that church. It's sad to see just a space where it once stood.
It is shocking to see how many of Liverpool's great buildings where lost in WW2 or pointlesly demolished. We can only imagine what Liverpool would have been like if none of this took place. This is why we must cherish what we still have and protect it at all costs.
Too much character has already been lost, we can't afford to lose anymore.
What was lost in the War was only a drop in the ocean compared to what has been demolished since.
Once you leave the city centre, just look around and imagine that wherever you are would have once been completely covered with buildings.
The 60's and 70's where a particularly bad time for demolitions. One example is the site in front of the grosvenor casino on West Derby road. This used to be the site of a fantastic looking church which was demolished in the 70's. I'm not quite sure why it was demolished. I think it's bell is housed somewhere in Birkenhead.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG
That was Emmanuel.Quote:
Originally Posted by AK1
It has been mentioned.
The reason given was 'road-widening' which never reached that part of West Derby Road.
How they ever got away with that is shocking, especially with such a great building.Quote:
Originally Posted by PhilipG