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Pembroke Place, LIVERPOOL, L3 5PS

Part of the buildings (architect Alfred Waterhouse) dating from the late 1880s. After being replaced by the modern Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the 1970s, the site was eventually taken over by Liverpool University in the 90s. Seen here from the junction of Daulby St with Pembroke Place.

A mighty palace of concrete. Planned from 1963-65 and opened in 1978. The architects were Holford Associates. This elevation to West Derby Street is a massive regular grid, behind which are the wards. Contrary to appearances the concrete members do not touch the windows but project. On the left is one of two rather sculptural ventilation ducts. The hospital has more than 700 beds, the largest in the area by some distance, and its Emergency Department is supposedly the largest in the country. Unfathomably, not everyone appreciates concrete and a plan to demolish the current buildings is making headway. For the Prescot Street elevation: Image

Built for the University of Liverpool, 1951-57, by Weightman & Bullen. It houses the Faculty of Medicine.

In the foreground, across Ashton Street, is the northern part of the building shown in Image On the right is Cedar House, University of Liverpool's School of Medicine, which opened the November after this photo was taken, and is based in the former Liverpool Royal Infirmary Nurses Home.

Showing the Spiritualist Church and the Roy Castle International Centre for Lung Cancer Research; junction with London Road in the background.

Visible straight ahead, on the corner of Moss Street (left) and Prescot Street (right), is the former Bank of Liverpool. Towards the left is the former Prince of Wales public house; both buildings are grade-II listed. Adjoining the Prince of Wales public house, on the extreme left, is Albert Court (formerly Opal Court), a student accommodation building completed in 2006. It adjoins the Prince of Wales on its opposite side too, and incorporates part of the interior for its uses. Most of the original building, however, is disused and this is very much evident from outside. The fourth road is Daulby Street.

A mighty palace of concrete. Planned from 1963-65 and opened in 1978. The architects were Holford Associates. Behind the long grid are clinical departments, the higher projecting sections behind house teaching blocks. Nearer the camera is a stair tower. The hospital has more than 700 beds, the largest in the area by some distance, and its Emergency Department is supposedly the largest in the country. Unfathomably, not everyone appreciates concrete and a plan to demolish the current buildings is making headway. The other side: Image

On the right is the baroque-influenced Martins Bank, 1905. The gothic building opposite, between London Road and Moss Street, is the former Prince of Wales pub (closed in 1999), now converted into student accommodation behind the facade (thanks to Sue Adair for this information).