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Pembroke Gardens, LIVERPOOL, L3 5RR

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine was founded on 12 November 1898 by a donation from Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, a Liverpool shipowner (Elder Dempster Line). The donation of £350 per annum for three years created the first school of its kind in the world from which many expeditions were launched to gather information on the horrendous diseases seen by doctors in the colonies. When I worked there, a collection of original specimens in the museum was a grim reminder of the legacy of some of these diseases, many of which still have no cure. Sir Ronald Ross became the first British winner of a Nobel prize for medicine when, in 1902, he was recognised for his discovery that malaria is carried by the mosquito. Today the school is affiliated to the University of Liverpool and sees over 500 students from over 70countries pass through its doors every year, many of which are post-graduate and research fellowships. In October 2005 Bill Gates donated £28million to the school's research and a new building, which will more than double the size of the school, is near completion.

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.

The building on the left was once part of the Royal Infirmary but is now the "Foresight Centre" with conference room facilities.

The impressive southern gable ends of three arms of the former Liverpool Royal Infirmary, now part of the University.

University of Liverpool campus.

By John Hughes, assistant to Lancelot Keay, the city's Director of Housing, c1935. The block is D-shaped, based on the Horseshoe Estate in Berlin. Grade II listed.

The rear of St.Andrew's Gardens at the top of Copperas Hill, which was nicknamed the "Bull Ring", from its circular shape. These flats have now been turned into student accommodation.

By E. Maxwell Fry, 1958-59. The tower is T-shaped, the stem tapered so that its plan resembles a bow tie. It is home to the University of Liverpool's School of Engineering, hence the roll call of illustrious scientists and engineers emblazoned in concrete across the end wall.