Lost Liverpool Landmarks.
The lost treasures of Liverpool…
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- The original Theatre Royal, Williamson Square
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- The windmills of Hope Street
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- Inside Central station overground on the last day before demolition
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- Inside Central station overground on the last day before demolition
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- Inside Central station overground on the last day before demolition
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- Myrtle Street and it’s orphanage
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- St Silas church
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- The Palais Du Luxe cinema
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- James Street fish market
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- The David Lewis hostel and youth centre
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- A long lost and forgotten toilets in the centre of Victoria Street
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- William Brown Street, site of the World Museum and Central Library in the Cultural Quarter.
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- The former labour exchange building on Lecee Street. Demolished 1995. It would stand as a pit for 20 years
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- South Castle Street in ruins after an air raid by the Germans
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- The opening of the Top Hat record bar
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- The former pediment, which was installed on St George’s hall until the 1950s
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- A ticket to Oxford from Central Station
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- The Great Charlotte Street fruit and veg market
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- This scene was lost to road widening at Byrom Street
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- A shot of Liverpool Central station’s overground platforms
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- Smathdown Road Picture Palace
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- A view of Hope Street before the city reached it
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- Central Station
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- The famous Guinness clock on Lime Street
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- The remains of the buildings destroyed for the Byrom Street road widening scheme
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- Old St Johns market
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- Marks & Spencers on Lime Street, next to the Futurist cinema
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- The tower of Liverpool, a jail
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- Church Street, showing the towers of the Bon Marche, the Compton house hotel, and Compton’s cathedral works – a high class jewelers and manufacturer of ornate metalwork
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- Customs house, lost during the war
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- A view of Islington behind London Road. Families once lived in the vibrant and vital neibourhood
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- The ballroom at the New Brighton tower
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- Myrtle Street children’s hospital
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- Looking down Park Road
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- Clayton Square
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- An old overhead railway coach
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- New Brighton tower – bigger than Blackpool’s
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- Renshaw Street Unitarian curch
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- The neon of St Georges’s place
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- St Johns church, behind St Georges hall
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- The three Adelphi hotels
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- Work to clear Liverpool Central overground
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- More demolition of Central overground
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- The platform of Central Station overground
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- The platform of Central Station overground
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- The old book shop at Liverpool Central station overground
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- Pitt Street church, destroyed by the Luftwaffe in WWII
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- St Georges church, where Church Street gets it’s name from
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- The three Lewis’s department store buildings
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- The old Theatre Royal in Williamson Square
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- The first Theatre Royal at Williamson Square
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- Central station overground – buildings just before demolition
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- St Johns church, which stood behind St Georges hall until 1901
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- The Cathedral works on Church Street.
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- St Georges place, near to Lime Street
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- St Peters Church, Church Street
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- The Futurist cinema, Lime Street
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- Unitarian Chapel, Paradise Street
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- The Compton House hotel, Church Street – now M&S
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- St Georges church, Derby Square
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- The Theatre Royal in Williamson Square being used as a cold storage facility before the end of it’s life
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- John Foster’s facade for Lime Street station, which lasted all of 30 years
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- These buildings made way for the Churchill Way flyover and the widening of Byrom Street
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- The Bon Marche, a John Lewis department store. It made way for George Henry Lees, but was still under the ownership of JL
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- South Castle Street before bombing
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- St Johns church in it’s gardens behind St Georges hall
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- Church Street showing the towers of St Peters church, the cathedral works, and the Compton house hotel
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- This department store stood where the ABC cinema now stands
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- Dingle Station – the terminus for the Liverpool Overhead Railway. It was at the bottom of Park Road in the Dingle
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- Knotts hole is perhaps the biggest loss to us. A place of outstanding natural beauty in Dingle, it was filled in with rubbish in the 20th century. It is now a roundabout.
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- The tower of Liverpool – a place to keep the unruly troublemakers after arrest
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- The Rialto cinema, which was burnt down during the riots of Toxteth in 1982
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- Knotts hole in the Dingle
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- The Peacock inn, Park Road.
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- St Georges church stood in Derby Square
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- Park Road 150 years apart.
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- Old Heymarket, demolished for the Mersey tunnel
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- The Sailers home, demolished during the 70s
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- Demolished for St. Johns shopping centre. The Radio city tower stands here.
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- The Washington hotel at St. Georges place.
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- The Queens theatre, later the Shakespeare.
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- St Georges Church, Derby Square.
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- Park Road before and after.
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- The fish market, Great Charlotte Street.
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- The old Post Office building, Victoria Street. Now Met Quarter.
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- St. Georges place.
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- Fire at the first Philharmonic Hall.
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- William Brown Street pottery
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- Skelhorne Street bus station, home to Ribble buses and the National Express services until it’s became the Buzz Club.
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- Coronation Gardens, made on a bomb site on Paradise Street. Later the old bus station would be built here.
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- Diocesan Church House, South John Street. Now the site of the Liverpool ONE Costa Coffee.
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- Byrom Street.
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- Canning Street church in the Georgian Quarter. Destroyed by fire.
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- St James Place, intersection of Great George Street, Parliament Street and Park Road. Featured is the Wedding house and the David Lewis hostel and youth centre.
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- The Chinese church, which was situated on Princes Avenue.
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- Side of the David Lewis hostel off Great George Street.
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- Queens Square.
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- The Theatre Royal in William Square.
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- Coopers Row. Was this where NEXT is now built?
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- The Lord Street arcade.
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- Sefton Park rail station, which was located at the brige on Smithdown Road.
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- Childwall hall.
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- St Pauls church, where St Pauls Square is now. Its a shame this went.
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- Goree Piazza on Strand Street. It stood in the middle of the main street that separates the waterfront area from Liverpool ONE.
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- Sefton General, site of the Smithdown Road ASDA today.
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- An image of the old Philharmonic and the Hope Street Unitarian church
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- An image of St Georges plateu, featuring a horse parade and the original facade of Lime Street rail station.
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- Lord Street bomb damage during WWII.
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- Part of the lost community of Islington
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- Clayton Square
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- Strand Street
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- The Forum Cinema on Lime Street and the department store which came before.
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- Goree Piaza on Strand Street
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- This is St Catherines church on Abercrombie Square, which was demolished for Liverpool University redevelopment
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- St James gardens before Liverpool cathedral was built.
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- Williamson Square before St Johns centre.
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- The penny in the pound building on Lord Street, featuring the Lord Street arcade.
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- Russell’s cathedral works on fire during the May blitz of WWII.
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- The streets beneath Liverpool cathedral before demolition. So unfortunate to have lost these.
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- The old church behind the Adelphi hotel on Hunter Street. On this site was built Reece’s bakery.
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- The Mardi Gras club on Mount Pleasent.
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- Lord Street arcade, as reported on by the Liverpool Echo in 1986.
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- The laying of the foundation stone of the Sailors home by Prince Albert..
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- St Judes Church Hardwick Street, Low Hill, Kensington
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- St Phillips church, corner of Leece Street and Renshaw Street.
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- Park Lane looking towards Liverpool ONE.
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- St James gardens before Liverpool cathedral was built.
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- St Georges Place and Lime Street.
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- Aigburth Road tram sheds.
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- Myrtle Street gymnaisium.
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- The cutting belonging to the city main railway line at Liverpool University during construction of new buildings for the university.
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- Great Charlotte Street fish market.
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- Buildings demolished for the second Lewis’s department store.
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- This building was on Victoria Street and was situated behind the Municiple buildings on Dale Street. It was destroyed by a bombing and is now a street level carpark.
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- The Washington hotel et al at St Georges place.
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- Bunny’s department store vs Forever 21 of today.
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- The Baltic Triangle with lots of housing. Everything in this picture is now gone bar the Cathedral.
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- Park Road showing the old Liverpool overhead railway terminus and now vanished houses.
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- Customs house, Liverpool’s greatest architectural loss – WWII bombings.
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- Great George Street demolition during the 1970s.
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- Lord Street arcade.
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- St Peters church, Church Street.
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- The remaining tower of St Pauls church, Princes Park/Belvidere Road.
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- The Liverpool Savings bank, Park Road.
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- Old Haymarket.
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- Buildings in front of Lime Street station.
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- Fire breaks out at the Shakespeare theatre.
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- Devastation caused by bombings, including South Castle Street.
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- I think this might be the apothacre on the corner of Berry Street/Wood Street.
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- Park Lane.
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- The Liverpool Overhead Railway bridge into the Dingle tunnels.
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- Myrtle Street baptist church.
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- Blacklers department store at Christmas.
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- Strand Street featuring the Goree Piazza.
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- Communion Row. Unfortunately demolished.
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- James Street station, bombed during the May Blitz of WWII.
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- Exchange flags, behind Liverpool town hall.
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- Going into the Baltic area
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- Hardman Street.
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- William Brown Street.
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- St James gardens before Liverpool Cathedral – note the oratory is still there.
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- Does anyone know where this is? We have no annotation in our archive.
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- The lunatic assylum, which was there before St Georges hall.
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- Great George Street was part of Chinatown but was torn down in the 1970s.
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- Demolished for St Johns shopping centre.
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- The Liverpool Exhibition, located at Edge Lane.
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- This Waterloo hotel was in Clayton Square
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- Photograph showing the tunnels leading into St James gardens for burial purposes.
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- The Liverpool Exhibition building on Edge Lane.
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- Hope Hall, which was demolished for the Everyman theatre.
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- William Brown Street going into old Islington.
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- Park Road.
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- The Castle of Liverpool.
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- The Paramount cinema standing under the Odeon banner on London Road.
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- The Shakespeare theatre.
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- The Cotton Exchange on Old Hall Street, which was architecturally vandalized in the 1970s.
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- Great Charlotte Street, featuring the old Fruit and Veg market.
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- The Sailors home, which stood where John Lewis now stands in Liverpool ONE.
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- Mann Island.
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- The original Empire Theatre on Lime Street.
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- The Mayfair Cinema on Aigburth Road, which stood where the Home & Bargain store now stands.
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- Old shop frontages in from of Lime Street railway station.
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- Does anyone know about this building? Our records are incomplete on this. CornWallis Street?
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- The original frontage of Lime Street station which lasted 30 years.
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- A church on Park Road that was demolished. It stood next to Coleman’s fireproof depository.
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- St. Thomas’s Church, Park Road.
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- Knotts hole, Dingle. Now replaced with a roundabout. This area was filled in with domestic waste and then built upon.
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- The Southern hospital.
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- The Dingle Picturedrome.
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- Everton, showing the old houses and the famous tower.
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- Picture montage showing aspects of the deterioration of the Futurist cinema before its demolition.
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- The Bibby building on Regents Road (the Dock Road).
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- Gerard Gardens situated behind the Cultural Quarter.
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- Dingle Dell, in which a large stream used to lead its way down to Knotts hole.
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- The Odeon before demolition on London Road.
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- A picture showing the front area of St Georges hall.
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- James Street featuring the old railway station.
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- Princes Park church on Belvidere Road.
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- Upper Parliament Street
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- The area stretched by the old river which flowed along these lines towards Knotts hole
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- The river path of Dingle Dell.
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- Dingle Dell.
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- Some of the old sandstone cliffs still stand at the Knotts hole site, if you know where to look. This section is on Riverside Drive.
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- Another image of Dingle Dell.
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- St Michaels church, (the cast iron church).
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- The Cotton Exchange building, Old Hall Street.
Comments
The Goree Piazzas were not on Strand Street. Strand Street runs from James Street to Canning Place. The road in front of the Piazzas was ‘Goree’ (and still has that name now). The road behind was once the ‘Back Goree’, and is now The Strand.
Hi,
some great photo’s here, but I thought I’d offer some info’, re-identification to a couple!
1) Though the customs house was burnt out by incendiary fire, in WW2, the basic structure remained standing, till demolition, in 1948.
2)The “Queen’s” theatre was in Paradise st. and did not become the “Shakespeare” theatre, which was in Frazer st. off London rd. till burning down in 1975. (no’82)
3) The building in Cornwallis st. was the public swimming baths.(no’192)
4) The building in Coopers row, was off Paradise st. (no’100)
5) The large, corner building in Hardman st. was the former blind school, commemorated by a wall plaque, which is still there. (no’167)
6) The tall pillars, that originally stood in front of St. George’s hall, were used to create the main gates of Sefton park,in Aigburth rd.
Amazing work, what an excellent resource to see what our city used to look like, and to see what the future holds!
Keep it up 🙂
Any information about the Washington Hotel when it was built and when it was demolished
I hope you can help me out. I am looking for information on the N & T Dutton Cabinet Makers and Upholsterers, formerly located on Great George St. Liverpool. They operated in the first quarter of the 19th century and made high quality furniture. We are restoring a bedroom suite with the original paper label. Any info you can find would be of great interest to the owner. Sincerely, Bob Brown and son Scott
Photo 170 is upper parliament street taken from Kingsley road area .
whare is the lost hotel in liverpool