Lost Liverpool

[Colin Wilkinson]

Just a brief post to add some missing images of lost buildings. The photographs supplement the previous posts and give a better idea of why I have included these buildings in my blog. They areCanada Dock hydraulic tower (photographed 1875)Kent Square c1935Goree and Overhead Railway 1947Cotton Exchange 1907

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[Davec]

Really look forward to your posts Colin, one of the highlights of the day.

[pablo42]

Really look forward to your posts Colin, one of the highlights of the day.

I agree with that Davec.

[dazza]

Great images Colin. I have both My Liverpool & Liverpool Charachters and Streets and I'm sure your website will be a valuable resource to everyone.

The Sailor's Home photograph. The building shown to the left of it [on the site of the 4th Custom House] echoes the previous building. It has five prominent arched windows, a scaling up of what was there before, although without the stepped facade.

[Kev]

Thanks Colin, I don't think I've seen the Canada Dock hydraulic tower, what a gem, why did they know down these wonderful buildings!!!!! The Goree shows it from a new angle.

Keep 'em coming!

Kev

[Kev]

Another Goree view: LRO

[Colin Wilkinson]

My ’Lost Liverpool’ has created quite a bit of interest and, in particular, incredulity that so many fine buildings have been demolished over the last sixty years. However, Liverpool has been luckier than most cities. Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow and Bath suffered wholesale destruction (remember T. Dan Smith and the wilful destruction of Eldon Square in Newcastle). Cities [...]

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[hmtmaj]

Fantastic stuff Colin, Thanks

[dazza]

Thanks Colin great images.

I've posted some updates for the 'West Dingle' photograph on your site.

[Colin Wilkinson]

Thanks Dazza - that is really helpful. I have a few lantern slides taken by N. Stephens of this area of the Dingle - along with a few of Matthew Arnold, the poet and essayist, who lived at Dingle Bank (and who died while walking along Dingle Lane in 1888).

[Colin Wilkinson]

Hi hmtmaj. I made a film in 1975 of the Old Swan Community Festival. It did a bit of a tour with the British Council and a copy was donated to Liverpool Record Office. It was a lot of street theatre and activities for children. Might be worth digging out. Who knows - you might be on it.

[dazza]

This might be too narrow a view. Any building or ship, anything out in the elements needs restoration work. Do you think HMS Victory in Portsmouth is the same ship that was launched in 1765? It isn't. Nor is USS Constellation in Boston harbor the same ship that was launched in 1797. Nor are Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's Cathedral the same buildings they were even a hundred years ago, not in the polluted atmosphere of London.Chris

Hi Chris,

What's that saying about Grandpa's old axe? Despite having three new handles and two new heads. It's still Grandpa's axe. The same also with the Athenian Parthenon, there's an ongoing program to replace all the erroded Pentelic marble, in order to protect the rest of the structure. Time is an significant factor in all of this - today we see an illusory finished object, when in reality, the actual fabric and design may have changed many times over it's history? John Donne's "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main" I think, can also be applied to buildings as well. All have a relationship with the patterns of the past. This is what I find fascinating about old buildings.

Cheers,
Daz

[dazza]

Thanks Dazza - that is really helpful. I have a few lantern slides taken by N. Stephens of this area of the Dingle - along with a few of Matthew Arnold, the poet and essayist, who lived at Dingle Bank (and who died while walking along Dingle Lane in 1888).

Hi Colin - new Dingle images, fantastic. I'd love to see those. Are you planning to upload them on to your site at some stage? My 3xgrandfather was a tenant farmer to Joseph Brooks Yates, and lived at Dingle Farm. He was responsible for farming the fields either side of The Dingle.

[ChrisGeorge]

Thanks Dazza - that is really helpful. I have a few lantern slides taken by N. Stephens of this area of the Dingle - along with a few of Matthew Arnold, the poet and essayist, who lived at Dingle Bank (and who died while walking along Dingle Lane in 1888).

That's an interesting bit of trivia about Matthew Arnold dying while walking in Dingle Lane in 1888! His most famous poem is probably "Dover Beach" and it's fascinating to know that his final moments occurred at a place much closer to home! As does Dazza I look forward to seeing those old images. Thanks again.

Chris

[Ged]

Colin/Chris. As far as i'm aware - through the book 'A tram ride to Dingle' Matthew Arnold never lived in Liverpool, but visited his sister Mrs Susan Cropper. Which is the correct version please?