57 Parr Street, Liverpool
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57 Parr Street, Liverpool
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 27 Jul 2011
Former warehouse built (behind his house, Image]) for wealthy merchant and slave trader Thomas Parr, c1799. Grade II listed. The listing records that it "may have been used to store iron", and that "Charles Darwin, who encountered him in 1840, described him as 'an old miserly squire'". It is now flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.401101
Longitude
-2.978185