Favourite Merseyside Architecture - buildings and monuments

[davek]

crazy how most young people now don’t even know they excised especially with how many there was , myrtle gardens etc

They're part of Liverpool history. I know they must have existed in other cities but there just seemed to be a hell of a lot more in Liverpool.

 

[davek]

Looks like a Pink Floyd album cover.

Yeah, defo Storm Thorgeson stye.

 

[Ferguson1878]

They're part of Liverpool history. I know they must have existed in other cities but there just seemed to be a hell of a lot more in Liverpool.

would have loved to have seen that overhead railway

 

[davek]

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Not my favourite, but it was iconic for me.

The smell of josticks and the narky counter staff are my abiding memory....especially that 'kin Nprman feller who DJ'd at Erics.

Defo an iconic building.

 

[davek]

would have loved to have seen that overhead railway

Must have been amazing. Like New York or something.

 

[vagablonde - kopite]

Croxteth Hall, spent many a happy summer Sunday playing here in the 80s as a kid.

 

[ClausThomsen]

St.Marys / Lowe House Church on North Rd in St.Helens....

Just over the road from the YMCA and one of the less salubrious housing estates in the locale supplying a rich cast of wandering alcoholics, bagheads & other colourful characters lending a more grounded contrast to it's gothic inspired grandeur.

 

[Papa Shango]

Loads of them.

St Paul's church - Stoneycroft. Just a massive imposing building.

Liverpool Collegiate - Came very close to living here until I remembered the area itself is a bit dodgy.

Newsham Park Hospital. Another monster of a building.

As I said there are loads, many that people probably don't even notice in their day to day stuff.

 

[davek]

This must have been amazing before it was partly destroyed in the blitz and then knocked down in 1948. It'd have stood opposite where the Albert Dock is.

A fair chunk of global world trade would have gone through that building in it's heyday.

 

[the golden visionary]

Always a better. Sefton Park glasshouse


Worked in here when I was an apprentice. Interesting place, we went into one of the sub levels and pryed open and old steel door, which led to a dark room with a hole in the wall, we threw a stone thru and hit water, there was also an old ladder and a hole in the floor but no one had the balls/ stupidity to go down it, turned out it was where they unloaded the 'cargo' back in the day

 

[davek]

St.Marys / Lowe House Church on North Rd in St.Helens....

Just over the road from the YMCA and one of the less salubrious housing estates in the locale supplying a rich cast of wandering alcoholics, bagheads & other colourful characters lending a more grounded contrast to it's gothic inspired grandeur.

Looks big enough to be a cathedral.

 

[davek]

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Worked in here when I was an apprentice. Interesting place, we went into one of the sub levels and pryed open and old steel door, which led to a dark room with a hole in the wall, we threw a stone thru and hit water, there was also an old ladder and a hole in the floor but no one had the balls/ stupidity to go down it, turned out it was where they unloaded the 'cargo' back in the day

Trade in slaves defo took place on that site - the old George Dock which that stands on.

 

[Papa Shango]

I quite enjoy St Hillary's in Wallasey with its double tower deal.

There is loads of boss architecture on the dark side. Some of the houses up by Oxton are ridiculous. And of course Bidston Windmill.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

Looking further afield but still Merseyside, the Dream in St Helens looks impressive.

Never been to it like.

A tribute to @chicoazul ???

 

[davek]

Picton Reading Room...