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The Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool with its two fabled Liver Birds, which watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that if the two birds were to fly away, the city would cease to exist. The Liver Birds are 5.5 m (18 ft) high. Their added height gives the Royal Liver Building an ...
Clark Rampling, architect of the Liverpool Medical Institution (1835–37) Thomas Rickman whose early career as an architect was spent in Liverpool, designed St George's Church, Everton (1813–1815) and St Michael's Church, Aigburth (1814) Thomas Ripley, designed the 2nd Custom House (1717–22), long demolished.
St George's Hall, Liverpool. / 53.4086; -2.9801. St George's Hall is a building on St George's Place, opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England. [1] [2] [3] Opened in 1854, it is a Neoclassical building which contains concert halls and law courts, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a ...
Pier Head. The Pier Head (properly, George's Pier Head [1] [2]) is a riverside location in the city centre of Liverpool, England. It was part of the former Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage Site, which was inscribed in 2004, but revoked in 2021. [3] [4] As well as a collection of landmark buildings, recreational open ...
Littlewoods was a football pools company founded by John Moores in 1923. The company rapidly expanded throughout the 1930s, and the Littlewoods Pools building, opened in 1938, [1] was purpose-built to provide more space for its operations. [2] Designed in the Art Deco style, probably by Scottish architect Gerald de Courcy Fraser, the building ...
Liverpool's skyline has been built up mostly in the last 20 years. The Royal Liver Building held the title of tallest structure in Liverpool for 54 years until Radio City Tower was completed in 1965. Radio City Tower was finally beaten in 2008 by West Tower . / 53.407028°N 2.994853°W / 53.407028; -2.994853.
Liverpool (Liverpool → Liverpool → Merseyside → North West England → England → United Kingdom) Camera location 53° 24′ 22.9″ N, 3° 00′ 12″ W
Grand Central Hall was opened in 1905 as the Central Hall of the Liverpool Wesleyan Mission, replacing Renshaw Street Unitarian Chapel. [citation needed] Built to an Art Nouveau design by Bradshaw and Gass of Bolton, the new building had a capacity of 3,576 people, [citation needed] and was also used from its opening until at least 1944 as the New Century Picture Hall cinema.