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!!
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.
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.
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!
...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.
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
I don't think the LOR or tram network really constitute 'buildings', but you've listed five good entities
nonetheless.
Not sure about the power station though - just look at the issues surrounding Battersea, it's a nightmare at the moment. Word on the
street is that the original concrete chimneys are getting replaced with fibreglass replicas... Still, if they'd just kept the chimneys of the Clarence Dock
station that would've remained a distinctive landmark.
It would be nice to see more of the dockside warehouses/goods yards etc still around, but you
can't keep everything, and thankfully we still have Albert and Stanley Docks as good examples of these kinds of sites.
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.
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The Old Hutte at Halewood - a medieval manorhouse of the Ireland family
Does anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like
that.
I'm doing my best to photograph as many of the remaining ones as possible (Stanley Dock, Royal Liverpool Infirmary, Heap Rice Mill, etc) before
they change and lose their originality (see my website link below), but hopefully the structures will be preserved.
I'm finding it quite hard to find
'period' photos of a lot of places on the web - I think I should really pay a visit to the library and see what I can find there. Still, lots of old photos
are kicking about, such as on the toxteth.net website.
anyone have a ready pictorial archive of these former buildings? It would be nice to compile a pictorial top 50 or something like that.
I
don't know about a "ready pictorial archive", but I've got a lot of photos of Liverpool.
They all need scanning.
But I'd like to see what other
people have got as well.
Considering that there are a lot of photographers in this group, it would be good to see their photos of demolished buildings.
a "ready pictorial archive", but I've got a lot of photos of Liverpool.
They all need scanning.
But I'd like to see what other people have got as
well.
Considering that there are a lot of photographers in this group, it would be good to see their photos of demolished buildings.
Very soon I
shall have a couple of CDs with these images on free from copyright I believe. Like the ones I've been posting recently, only many many more. Watch this
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