Such a shame!
Yes, a great thread and well worthy of resurrection.
So, just to recap so that none are repeated and some listed here can be looked back at over the previous pages.
The Liverpool overhead railway - due to costly maintenance.
The Customs House - fire damaged only by WWII incendiary bombs.
The three ugly sisters, clarence dock power station. Due to being abolished.
St. Johns Market. For St. Johns precinct.
Liverpool's tram system. Supposed progress of buses instead of as well as.
The Theatre Royal. For road widening at Williamson Square.
Brindley Warehousee at Dukes dock. Due to being abolished/disuse.
Guiness Clock curved row at St. Georges Place. For St. Johns precinct.
Sailors Home. Only because of falling into disuse.
Strand Buildings. For newer buildings.
Old Hutte, Halewood. Abandonment.
Jericho Farm, Otterspool. Fields being bought by the city council for building.
David Lewis Theatre. Only because of falling into disuse.
Cotton Exchange frontage. Another moment of madness, only for a new build.
Helliwells Buildings, Castle Street. ?
Tram Depots. Finally after many years of the abolishment of trams.
Myrtle Street childrens hospital. Falling into disuse - new building.
The Labour Exchange, Leece Street. Failed road widening scheme.
Owen Owen warehouse on St. Anne Street - destroyed by fire.
Liverpool Castle. Fell to bits then replaced after a market by St. Georges. Ch
Liverpool Tower. Dismantled due to lack of need.
Rotunda Theatre. WWII bombed but only finally demolished in the 1960s
Pier Head baths. New lay out of the Pier Head area.
Central Station frontage. Lost to redevelopment.
Emmanuel Church, West Derby road. Failed new road layout.
Hippodrome Theatre. Failed new road layout.
Bootle Hospital. Still standing but abandoned.
Northern Hospital. New Leeds st layout and restructuring of hospitals.
Southern Hospital. New housing development and hospital restructuring.
St. Pauls eye hospital. Amalgamated into the Royal Hospital.
Benns Gardens - Sth Castle st area for new law courts.
Building to the rear of the Municipal buildings - lost through WWII bombing.
Mayfair cinema?
Toxteth congregational church?
Little sisters of the poor convent on Aigburth Road - for new housing.
The Hamlet church?
The Garston Hotel pub. Fell into disrepair.
Mason street housing. Age/disrepair. Mole of Edge hill frontage still up.
St. Chrysostoms Church?
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A good list. Here is another:
Liverpool's destroyed landmarks
The trams? A large system. They were uneconomical and inflexible as the city was expanding. They caused traffic jams and that was in the 1950's with few cars around. The long haul routes could have been kept up the boulevards, however would Menlove Ave have all those wonderful trees now, which are on the old lines? Best cut and cover up the boulevards as they did in Paris and make Merseyrail even bigger and better, using fast, small, light trains, like in London's Docklands.
The best thing for the city is to expand Merseyrail and use the disused tunnels, stations and trackbed. Extending Rapid Transit Merseyrail. Using the tunnels in the inner-city districts makes Merseyrail a proper metro where people use it to get around from district to district, not just commute in from the outskirts.
I'm glad the Ugly sisters went. They were horrible. Look at the Lumieres 1897 film and the Overhead passes the original Clarence Dock - much nicer.
Very historic.
Lumieres Film from the Overhead
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Can someone let me know when the Sailor's Home and the David Lewis Theatre were demolished? I think I remember seeing both at some time in the past. I never saw old Lime Street, but I've seen photos on Ged's site, and there's no comparision to what's there today - that ugly precinct!
and taken from the link Waterway's posted before
Sailors Home - To the great and lasting disgust of many Liverpudlians, this wonderful folly of a building was demolished during the 1970s. Even worse, its site was not even required for new buildings - or even a road scheme.
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But isn't it strange, that no one ever knows who made these decisions! We should have a rogues gallery, of these halfwits, not that it would do any good now!
We should indeed and maybe the caption. ''Will your mugshot be on this next?''
That might put the phillistines off. Better than nothing - if we can find out just who was responsible.
Liverpool City Council have given permission to demolish what is probably the last decent public building in Garston.
This is of course Garston Hospital. It is to be replaced by a derivative tin shell of a structure on the same site. This will involve removal of the hill on which the current hospital still stands. Mount Pleasant will soon be no longer a mount.
Disgraceful, How can they demolish such a beautiful building?
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Even if it were for the dreaded apartments syndrome, it'd be better that it remained standing. It's all about money of course and wanting to use the existing site I bet.
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If you're including 'Structures' in the building's category...as in the 'Docker's Umbella', then surely we should add the Old Dock as well?
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