This bit - street level ? I'd have to be there and see it to work it out.
I'm wondering where you are standing .. behind the fence ? is this where you can look over to the track ?
Hi Linda,
I photographed the area through a hole in the wall with permission to be on the school site of course.
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Have a look at the attachement. Just below the left corner you can see where I have photographed the corner structure behind which, I was standing when I photographed it.
Between Chatsworth bridge, where the arch was, and the tunnel portals was the original Edge Hill station. The steps took people down to the station. The station along with Crown St station was abandoned in 1836 and moved over to the end of the Lime St newly dug tunnel.
The map shows the current Edge Hill stn (1836). Liverpool had abandoned two railway stations before London even had a rail station. Because of the moving of the station, this leaves Broad Green Station as the oldest station in the world.
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?
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?
The Moorish Arch - designed by architect John Foster (jnr) and completed in 1830. The railway itself was opened to the public on 15th September 1830. The then Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington [of battle of Waterloo fame] also attended and would have himself passed through the arch as part of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway inauguration.
The arch served a practical purpose. The column like walls either side of the arch housed the steam engines that provided the power to rope haul the train and carriages from Crown Street station up the embankment. According to Hugh Hollinghurst, John Foster and Sons, Kings of Georgian Liverpool it was demolited in 1860, as part of a track widening programme.
Why a 'Moorish' arch though? H.H. [above] doesn't offer an explanation. And so far to date most of the buildings by John Foster (jnr) were in the Greek Revival style. I would like to think it had something to do with the mystery and exoticism that travel possesses. And in a way the arch was a new gateway to the future. I think it was a kind of postcard advertising access to a rapidily shrinking and still largely unknown world out there.
Courtesy of LRO.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."... ... ... Mark Twain.
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