IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Water Street, LIVERPOOL, L2 8AB
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Water Street, L2 8AB by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (1428 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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"La Princesse" astonishes the crowds in Water Street
The arrival of this enormous mechanical spider in Liverpool, created by François Delarozière of "La Machine", is one of the major events of the European Capital of Culture year.
Image: © Bryan Pready
Taken: 6 Sep 2008
0.01 miles
2
Tower Gardens, Liverpool
Urban canyons: surrounded by high office blocks, looking along Tower Gardens to Water Street.
Image: © Stephen McKay
Taken: 28 Jun 2011
0.02 miles
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Looking along Water Street towards The Liver Building
Image: © Basher Eyre
Taken: 31 Jul 2012
0.02 miles
4
Oriel Chambers, Water Street, Liverpool
An astounding and progressive building which ought to be better known. The architect was Peter Ellis and the year 1864. It must be unlike any other building anywhere in the country of that date, e.g. see the building to the left (actually built thirty years later). In its balance of glass to wall it is quasi-Modernist. The canted oriel windows have cast-iron frames and are separated by narrow pinnacled piers. These decorative touches slightly jar with the rest of the composition. Working in this building must have been a revelation to workers used to dingy darkness. Grade I listed.
Ellis is only known to have designed one other building, round the corner in Cook Street (Image]). Stung by criticism of this building ("a great abortion") he abandoned architecture. How sad that he didn't live to witness the accolades subsequently heaped upon it. Sometimes it takes time for innovation to be appreciated, a lesson we could do with re-learning.
Still offices, partly occupied by barristers' chambers, partly vacant.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.02 miles
5
Drury House, Water Street, Liverpool
Probably 1960s, with a characteristically strong rectilinear facade, and two prominent glazed staircases. The spandrels beneath the windows are perforated like Shreddies.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.02 miles
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Drury House, Water Street
Drury House is a former office block, currently (March 2018) under conversion by property management and lettings company YPP into a residential apartment complex, to be named Gravity Residence.
Image: © Jonathan Hutchins
Taken: 31 Mar 2018
0.02 miles
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Cycle contraflow on Water Street
Water Street is one-way westbound for motor traffic but has a two-way cycle lane on the northern side.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 29 Dec 2017
0.02 miles
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Tower Buildings, Water Street, Liverpool
And tower it does. A formidable Edwardian pile, its skin of glazed terracotta draped over a steel skeleton. With its crenellated towers it is reminiscent of a fortress, and in fact Pevsner remarks that it boasts a "bizarre mix of Baroque and medieval motifs". (Perhaps the architect was conscious of the Stanley family's medieval tower which stood on this site.) It was built 1906-10 to the designs of Walter Aubrey Thomas. Grade II* listed.
It is now flats.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.03 miles