Comments on: Lost Liverpool (1)

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:03:08 +0000

Thanks Alwyn, it is sobering to think how magnificent Liverpool could have been (I know it is anyway) had we kept just a few of the lost buildings: the Custom House, Sailors’ Home, Overhead Railway, Goree Piazzas, St John’s Market to name just the obvious. All unnecessarily demolished. How little foresight!

By: Alwyn

Alwyn — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:43:55 +0000

I can’t really put into words how much this site has made me understand just how undervalued our architectural heritage is.

Even now, it comes and goes under our very eyes but records or history like the one above show us a Liverpool that is indeed lost, an ancient Liverpool, that thanks to blogs like this, will be there, at least in photographic form, for generations to come.

Fantastic site, very well done sir.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:36:52 +0000

Many thanks Ann – it is very heartening to know the posts are being well received.

By: Ann

Ann — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 09:56:15 +0000

Thank you so much for posting such amazing pictures and a wealth of interesting info. will be recommending your site to fellow family historians. Well done, keep up the good work.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:53:27 +0000

Hi Robert,
I do have one or two photographs of Lark Hill, which I will post in the future. Lark Hill was one of many mansions lost in the 1950s and 60s (including Lee Park, Broadgreen, Norris Green, Allerton and Childwall Hall). Different reasons for demolition including dry rot, fire or to make way for new housing. I accept not all could be kept – but more should have been.

By: Robert Henderson

Robert Henderson — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:13:38 +0000

I am haunted by memories of Lark Hill mansion house (demolished ~1962). This eighteenth mansion on Queen’s Drive belonged to the Heywoods and used to house Larkhill library up to 1962. The excuse for demolishing seems to have been dry rot, which we now know is treatable, but conservation was not in any case foremost in the Corporation’s mind in those days. Pevsner mourns its loss in his book on Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West (see p403). I am trying to remember more about it, and but there are few photographs.

By: Issac Maez

Issac Maez — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:11:10 +0000

Hey! Awesome site! I will definatley be coming back in the near future =)

By: admin

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:19:31 +0000

I can remember Fritz Spiegl being particularly incensed that Dr Duncan’s Dispensary at the number 1 Upper Parliament Street was demolished to make way for road widening. In a similar vein Kitty Wilkinson’s public washhouse on Upper Frederick Street was also demolished. Perhaps not of great architectural note but of huge significance in the social history of Liverpool. We really do have a poor record in recognising what is important to our heritage.

By: John Turner

John Turner — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:55:05 +0000

When I was young, both sides of Upper Parliament Street had houses all the way up from St James’ Place to it’s junction with Tunnel Road and though some were quite dilapidated after the war, they were still a stunning sight stretching away into the distance as you made your way up the hill. The remaining terrace stretching from Catherine Street to Grove Street gives some idea of just how grand they would look if we still had them today.