Lime Street, Liverpool.
St George’s Hall turned Liverpool from a provincial north of England town, to the second city of Empire.
Its nearness to the station is of great significance. It was Liverpool’s message to the world.
If you looked out of St George’s Hall on the day of opening, you would have seen thousands of houses. They couldn’t leave it "stuck out there like a sore thumb" as one person said, they had to connect it to the old town. William Brown Street was that connection.
The library and museum of the 1860s; the Walker Art Gallery, now refurbished, of the 1870s; the good old Empire Theatre, of another name in 1871, then under its modern name in 1925 and the North Western Hotel - all of these buildings turned Lime Street into a dramatic quarter.
An arrival place for those people coming from all over the country and indeed, all over the world. The plateau has been the scene for some of the most dramatic events in our history:
Crowds gathered there after the death of Gladstone, the death of Queen Victoria and the assassination of John Lennon.
Lime Street, Liverpool.
St George’s Hall turned Liverpool from a provincial north of England town, to the second city of Empire.
Its nearness to the station is of great significance. It was Liverpool’s message to the world.
If you looked out of St George’s Hall on the day of opening, you would have seen thousands of houses. They couldn’t leave it "stuck out there like a sore thumb" as one person said, they had to connect it to the old town. William Brown Street was that connection.
The library and museum of the 1860s; the Walker Art Gallery, now refurbished, of the 1870s; the good old Empire Theatre, of another name in 1871, then under its modern name in 1925 and the North Western Hotel - all of these buildings turned Lime Street into a dramatic quarter.
An arrival place for those people coming from all over the country and indeed, all over the world. The plateau has been the scene for some of the most dramatic events in our history:
Crowds gathered there after the death of Gladstone, the death of Queen Victoria and the assassination of John Lennon.