Lost Liverpool Buildings Top 5

[PhilipG]

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

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.

[Kev]

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.

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

space.

[Motorhemp]

I always liked the run down church on the corner of

Catherine and Canning streets but its knocked down and flats built there now. Anyone got a photo of that?

[The Teardrop Explodes]

"I always liked the run down church on the corner of Catherine and

Canning streets but its knocked down and flats built there now. Anyone got a photo of that?"


.....haven't but the people to blame for that are

the council and the 'developers' local slumlords Lacy Roofing for that heap of kaka they've bequethed the city with. Slap bang in the middle of the

Georgian quarter too. Thanks lads.

[Motorhemp]

I know there's got to be a balance between new and old and that

nothing lasts forever etc. but that block of flats is so characterless and sticks out like a sore thumb around that area...

[PhilipG]

I always liked the run down church on the corner of Catherine and Canning streets but its knocked

down and flats built there now. Anyone got a photo of that?

October 1986.
Not one of my best pics, but better than nothing!

[Motorhemp]

Cheers - when was that taken? I

remember the building getting more and more delapidated and then a fire did the damage in your shot but when was it?

[PhilipG]

Cheers - when was that taken? I remember the

building getting more and more delapidated and then a fire did the damage in your shot but when was it?

The photo was taken in October 1986,

not long after the fire.
Some gardens in Canning Street have tiles and carved stonework from the church (which was built between 1840 & 1856).
It was

demolished in 1997.

[Motorhemp]

20 years ago - I can hardly believe it!

I was at Hope St. college (City/Central it kept changing names) doing a City and Guilds Photography then - I may have some shots of it stored away in my

loft.

Thanks for the info and photo.

[twiz]

The Sir Edwin Lutyens 'Liverpool Cathedral', it was never built so I'm not sure if it counts, but it was planned to be the biggest cathedral

on the planet with a height of 158m!

[The Teardrop Explodes]

Looks really Moscova to me...

[Waterways]

The Sir Edwin Lutyens 'Liverpool

Cathedral', it was never built so I'm not sure if it counts, but it was planned to be the biggest cathedral on the planet with a height of

158m!

The crypt was built. WW2 got in the way.

[The Teardrop Explodes]

I was a choirboy for

the cathedral and we'd sing a weekly gig in that crypt.

Fridays I think it was..

[MissInformed]

wow,

great pic
you guys are fantastic with your research, I applaud you...

[PhilipG]

The theatre was erected as part of the David Lewis building in 1906 and it was intended

primarily as a music hall for men using the David Lewis Hostel and Club. The architect of the building was J. Francis Doyle. (David Lewis was the founder

of Lewis's stores, and a great philanthropist). It was first licensed (as a music hall) from January 1907, but, as it was a large and quite elaborate

structure, it was felt it would be bad economy to limit its use to just a music hall, so arrangements were made with local amateur dramatic societies to

stage their productions there. The first theatrical licence was issued in October, 1910.
Tuesday night shows were introduced and people from the local

neighbourhood were charged much lower prices than they would pay elsewhere. There were concerts on Sunday evenings - "an hour and a half's good music for

2d". Films were shown as well, the first cinema licence was issued in January 1914. (The management of the soon to be opened St. James' Picturedrome

objected, to no avail). A scheme was also developed for the showing of films to school children. In the 1920s, a licence for boxing was obtained, and in

the 1930s, billiards was introduced.
The theatre could accommodate about 1000 people. In 1936, two sound film projectors were installed. During

the war it was described as the David Lewis Garrison Theatre. In 1960, the floor was levelled and a new stacking system of 296 seats was used. Dancing was

introduced but film shows and theatrical productions continued to be staged. The 470 seats in the balcony remained unaltered.
The David Lewis

Theatre ceased being "a place of public resort" when the certificates expired on 30 November 1977. Demolition of the complex was completed in October,

1980.
The site has been redeveloped.