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Telephone exchange, Old Leeds Street, Liverpool
It's surprising how many post-war telephone exchanges were built in very assertive styles. This is a case in point. Hammered concrete with windows recessed in chamfered surrounds.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
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Liverpool: view of Plaza Hotel and Mersey mouth
Looking out from the top of the Anglican cathedral tower, we see beyond the modern city-centre Plaza hotel towards the coast at New Brighton at the tip of the Wirral peninsula where the Mersey meets the sea. A small lighthouse can just be discerned and will be found here:
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Image: © Chris Downer
Taken: 21 Apr 2011
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100 Old Hall Street, Liverpool
Behind its narrow frontage is an unusually long office block, difficult to photograph properly as it is hemmed in by other buildings. It stands on pillars encompassing the height of the three bottom floors. Built for Littlewoods by its own Department of Architecture and Planning in 1962.
In recent years it has been refurbished by Mancunian property developers, Bruntwood, and re-christened "The Plaza". It retains its 1960s look, however.
Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
0.05 miles
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Lancaster House, Old Hall Street, Liverpool
Built as a telephone exchange and training facility for telephone engineers in 1936, complete with period curves. Brick with vertical black fins. Behind lies a later concrete extension (
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Image: © Stephen Richards
Taken: 26 Jul 2011
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Liverpool, not NYC
One of many new skyscrapers appearing along the Liverpool waterfront.
Image: © Mike Pennington
Taken: 27 Jul 2007
0.06 miles
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The Passport Office
The Passport office at 101, Old Hall Street, Liverpool.
Image: © Peter Mackenzie
Taken: 16 Mar 2017
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Liverpool Exchange No.2 Signalbox ? 1967
Taken from a departing steam hauled train to Preston.
Following the closure and demolition of Exchange station, the site is currently (2021) a car park.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 21 Jan 1967
0.06 miles
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West Tower, Brook Street, Liverpool
As viewed from Seacombe promenade. Not quite a skyscraper, not a Saturn V, either, though the black & white hints at it. An interesting highrise, nonetheless.
Image: © El Pollock
Taken: 19 Jul 2009
0.06 miles
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Ready for departure, Liverpool Exchange Station ? 1968
Stanier 'Black 5' 4-6-0 45212 at the head of a through train to Glasgow. Exchange Station was the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway's Liverpool terminus but succumbed to rationalisation after the Beeching Report and closed in 1977. 45212 has survived into preservation; currently (2021) based on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway, it is also available for main line operation.
Image: © Alan Murray-Rust
Taken: 12 Apr 1968
0.07 miles
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Old Hall Street
A busy street in the centre of Liverpool.
Image: © Peter Mackenzie
Taken: 16 Mar 2017
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