Lost Mansions of Liverpool

PhilipG · 07-07-2008

Originally Posted by Cadfael

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-21275005/

Yet another mysterious fire. I wonder if this land is suitiable for houses like Thingwall House and Sandown Hall?

There's a good photo of Liscard Hall in this thread:

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9858

**Davec** · 07-09-2008

Can anyone tell me if they know the number of the house pictured in 'screen 11' of this link?

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.o...d=86&slideNo=1

PhilipG · 07-09-2008

Originally Posted by Davec

Can anyone tell me if they know the number of the house pictured in 'screen 11' of this link?

http://viewfinder.english-heritage.o...d=86&slideNo=1

Orleans House was 7 Aigburth Drive.
Halfway between Belem Tower and Lark Lane.
(The numbers run consecutively, with Belem Tower being #1).
Most of those mansions are still standing, so it might still be there.

**Davec** · 07-09-2008

Thanks for that info Phil. So it should be somewhere around the Alicia Hotel.

PhilipG · 07-09-2008

Originally Posted by Davec

Thanks for that info Phil. So it should be somewhere around the Alicia Hotel.

Further on.
Count Belem Tower flats as #1 and you want the 7th plot as you walk towards Lark Lane.
When the rain stops I'll wander round there myself.

**taffy** · 07-09-2008

I think this property has been demolished

**Davec** · 07-09-2008

Thanks Phil and Taff.

Demolished !! That would be about right.
What perplexed me about that pic was the apparent length of the front lawn, didn't half seem long to me - unless it was one of those optical illusions you can get in photographs sometimes.

**taffy** · 07-09-2008

Now no longer. See Hale web site

http://www.halevillageonline.co.uk

PhilipG · 07-11-2008

Orleans House has been demolished and this is now on the site.
(An old people's home, I think).
The site goes back to Linnet Lane, and was the biggest on that stretch of road.
Numbers 1 to 6 and 8 survive
3 is the Alicia Hotel, originally called Broadmead.

Sorry this photo is bad, but the sun was against me.

**Kev** · 07-11-2008

Thanks Phil, I wonder everyday as I pass this building what it replaced as its SO out of place!

**gregs dad** · 07-11-2008

32-34 Wellington Road New Brighton proving you don`t have to demolish a good old building to spoil it, just add modern bricks to it as on the right of this building.
Notice the cluster of 12 chimneys and the bracing to make sure they stay there. This is split into flats now.
Anybody know what it used to be?

PhilipG · 07-12-2008

[QUOTE=gregs dad;139757
32-34 Wellington Road New Brighton proving you don`t have to demolish a good old building to spoil it, just add modern bricks to it as on the right of this building.
Notice the cluster of 12 chimneys and the bracing to make sure they stay there. This is split into flats now.
[B]Anybody know what it used to be?[/[/B]QUOTE]

These pages have been scanned from "Sandstone and Mortar - More of Old Wallasey" by Noel E Smith (1992).

**Kev** · 10-05-2008

Larkhill Mansion 1961, Muirhead Avenue/ Queens Drive: LRO

**Ged** · 10-06-2008

Is that still there, don't recall ever seeing it, if not - why not and what's there now - bladdy hell, nearly more questions than hobblebobble there

**gregs dad** · 01-14-2009

This is Hollybank in St Michaels Road, built and lived in by John Cragg,the owner of the Mersey Iron Foundry.in the early 19th century. the windows and doorframes were made of cast iron.There has been some alterations,by
the second window you can see the archway which led to the stables.
Mr Cragg was a friend of Thomas Rickman the architect of the two "cast iron" churches,St Georges in Everton and St Michaels,hence the exstensive use of cast iron in the building of them.