51-57 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead
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51-57 Hamilton Square, Birkenhead
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 20 Aug 2014
This remarkably grand and complete Georgian composition is like an alien intrusion into the cityscape. Take one step outside in pretty much any direction and one is brought down to earth with a bump. The rest of William Laird's scheme never got off the ground. The square was laid out by James Gillespie Graham and construction took almost twenty years. The south end of the east side, pictured here, was the last section to be completed, in around 1844. The town hall divides the two halves of this side. Grade I listed.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.392793
Longitude
-3.014988