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St Mary's School, Woolton
The original school building in St Mary’s Street, Woolton was opened in 1869 by Father John Placid O’Brien. The children brought in pennies to pay for their schooling and parents supplied slates and books. The building is now Woolton Day Nursery.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 10 Feb 2009
0.03 miles
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Plaque on Woolton Picture House
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 14 Feb 2007
0.03 miles
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The Woolton Picture House
The Woolton Picture House was a landmark and the last remaining independent cinema in Liverpool. Designed by the Architect Lionel A.G. Pritchard it first opened to the public on Boxing Day 1927 and closed on September 3rd 2006 following the untimely death of its patron David Wood, the grandson of Liverpool cinema pioneer John Frederick Wood, who bought the cinema in 1992. It was the only remaining single-screen cinema in the city and was popular with cinema enthusiasts because of its comfortable, armchair-like seating, old-fashioned atmosphere and the fact that films were shown with an interval halfway through, during which usherettes sold ice-cream.
In February 2007 it was announced that a group of local businessmen had bought the cinema, and it re-opened on 26th March of the same year.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 14 Feb 2007
0.03 miles
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Mechanics? Institution, St. Mary?s Street
The Mechanics Institute erected in 1848 in St. Mary's Street, was built of Woolton sandstone with a bell turret. Established primarily by the Rev. Dr. Shepherd, Minister of Gateacre Unitarian Chapel, it comprised of one larger upper room and two smaller ones downstairs. The premises were purchased by Liverpool Education Committee in 1921 for a manual instruction and domestic science centre. It is now privately owned.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 10 Feb 2009
0.05 miles
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2-8 Quarry Street, Liverpool
Early C19th houses built for quarrymen and carters using the material they handled all day. There was no escape. Grade II listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 16 Aug 2016
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2-8 Church Road, Liverpool
A five-house terrace running perpendicular to the street, one house with a gable end facing the street. Mid C19th. Grade II listed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 16 Aug 2016
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The Grapes, Woolton
The Grapes at the junction of Allerton Road with Quarry Street, Woolton.
Image: © Sue Adair
Taken: 10 Feb 2009
0.06 miles
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29 Allerton Road, Liverpool
Built as a branch of the Bank of Liverpool in 1901-02 by Willink & Thicknesse. "Quiter than most" (e.g. compare with
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At the time it was still a branch of Barclays, but unsurprisingly it has since closed.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 16 Aug 2016
0.07 miles
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Woolton Grange Care Home
A church converted to a care home, a more appropriate use than some I've seen
Image: © Ian Greig
Taken: 28 Nov 2014
0.07 miles
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Eleanor Rigby headstone at St Peter's Church, Church Road, Woolton
Among the gravestones at St Peter's Church, Woolton stands a headstone above a plot in which a certain 'Eleanor Rigby' was buried. Although Paul McCartney denies this has any link with the song, can it be just a coincidence that it was at a Garden Fête in a field behind this church that Paul McCartney first saw a certain John Lennon performing with his group 'The Quarry Men' on 6 July 1957?
Image: © Peter Tarleton
Taken: 12 May 2002
0.08 miles