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Seamen’s Orphanage, Newsham Park
Peter Ackroyd, the noted biographer, likened walking on London’s pavements to walking on skin. I thought that was a clever way of capturing the human history of a city beneath the stone artefacts left behind. Walking the streets of Liverpool, I can understand the pull of the past – even if Liverpool’s history cannot match [...]
The destruction of Great George Street
Aerial view 1930s Great George Street 1976: showing The Clock public house and Henry Willis’s organ works Great George Street 1976: showing Rushworth & Dreaper’s organ works and the David Lewis Centre Looking at the aerial photograph, it is hard to believe that so little of the area has survived (with the obvious exception of [...]
Manchester Street 1964
Manchester Street is hardly the grand street the region’s second city deserves. Tucked alongside the Tunnel entrance, it is passed by thousands of motorists daily who probably give it only the most cursory glance. Before the tunnel was built, it had a more significant role, linking Victoria Street with Dale Street, but now, thanks to [...]
