Comments on: Church Street 1880 http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/221/ A Pictorial History of Liverpool Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:45:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Darren White http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/221/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Darren White Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:00:50 +0000 http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/?p=221#comment-22 The building on the extreme left went on to become the first F.W. Woolworth & Co. 3d & 6d Store in Great Britain. "The 1st UK Store [1909-1923] at 25 & 25a Church Street, Liverpool was already an existing building before F.W.Woolworth & Co. Ltd came to the city. According to Joseph Sharples, author of Liverpool, Pevsner Architectural Guides describes it as: 'the Italianate shop now occupied by Clarkes was designed by Lewis Hornblower, c. 1858, for the art metalworkers and electroplater's Elkington's. The Builder disliked the thin columns to the upper floors, 'which suggest rain-water pipes without being so'." Part extract of a report posted on Yo-Liverpool. Full report, refer to Post#71 on the link below. http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?4377-Woolworths-Liverpool/page8&highlight=woolworths The building on the extreme left went on to become the first F.W. Woolworth & Co. 3d & 6d Store in Great Britain.

“The 1st UK Store [1909-1923] at 25 & 25a Church Street, Liverpool was already an existing building before F.W.Woolworth & Co. Ltd came to the city. According to Joseph Sharples, author of Liverpool, Pevsner Architectural Guides describes it as:

‘the Italianate shop now occupied by Clarkes was designed by Lewis Hornblower, c. 1858, for the art metalworkers and electroplater’s Elkington’s. The Builder disliked the thin columns to the upper floors, ‘which suggest rain-water pipes without being so’.”

Part extract of a report posted on Yo-Liverpool. Full report, refer to Post#71 on the link below.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/showthread.php?4377-Woolworths-Liverpool/page8&highlight=woolworths

]]> By: Nigel Kavanagh http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/221/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Nigel Kavanagh Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:06:56 +0000 http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/?p=221#comment-11 wonderful Pictures, thank you ! wonderful Pictures, thank you !

]]> By: Billy http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/221/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Billy Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:25:26 +0000 http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/?p=221#comment-10 Many thanks for this website, lovely clear photos of the city as it was. The picture of the three scruffy boys brought tears to my eyes, as I remember kids dressed like this - I'd be about the same age as them. What made it worse was that some of them had lost their fathers in the war and this was the best Britain could do for them. The memory of the poverty kids like these endured - yet they can still smile for the camera - still pains me sixty years on. I hope life was kinder to them in later years. Many thanks for this website, lovely clear photos of the city as it was. The picture of the three scruffy boys brought tears to my eyes, as I remember kids dressed like this – I’d be about the same age as them. What made it worse was that some of them had lost their fathers in the war and this was the best Britain could do for them. The memory of the poverty kids like these endured – yet they can still smile for the camera – still pains me sixty years on. I hope life was kinder to them in later years.

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