Liverpool’s Lost Heritage

  • Harland & Wolff, Liverpool

    Harland & Wolff, Liverpool

    Harland & Wolff, Head Quarters | Harland & Wolff, Engineering & Foundry It was around 1913 when Harland & Wolff Ltd, expanded their existing shipbuilding business into Liverpool. Opening a further engineering Works and foundry on Strand Road, along with…

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  • Brooks House, Hanover Street

    Brooks House, Hanover Street

    Who remembers this now long lost, Hanover Street building?… The building was originally named ‘Brooks House’, 31 Hanover Street and was the former home of Joseph Brooks, a Liverpool merchant & ropemaker. The house was believed to be one of…

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  • Endeavour

    Endeavour

    The German built passenger ferry, Endeavour, whose last reported name is listed as, ‘Trinity’ – (IMO 5264663). She was originally built & launched in 1959 as the ‘Alte Liebe’. However since her launch, she has had several name changes: The…

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  • Creep Inn, Munitions Factory & WWII Bunker

    Creep Inn, Munitions Factory & WWII Bunker

    A network of Top Secret subterranean Tunnels, passages and chambers, beneath Wirral’s New Brighton Palace amusement arcade, have quite an interesting historic story to tell… The New Brighton Palace Tunnels, said to date back over 200 years and thought to…

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  • River Jordan, Aigburth

    River Jordan, Aigburth

    In Liverpool’s historic past, there were ancient rivers, which strangely do not seem to exist anymore. However, many of these rivers still flow down to the Mersey. There existance largely hidden from view, flowing through a network of underground brick…

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  • Inside the Otterspool café

    Inside the Otterspool café

    ‘Otterspool House’, the once grand home of “John Moss” stood in what is now Otterspool park, South Liverpool. When the Liverpool & Manchester Railway was proposed in the 1820s, John Moss took great interest in the proposed new passenger Railway,…

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  • The old Bank Vault

    The old Bank Vault

    An intereresting discovery was made back in March 2019 whilst ground works were taking place at the site of the former Midland Bank, on Upper Parliament Street by Smithdown Lane and Tunnel Road. The foundations of the former bank’ were…

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  • Beneath Renshaw Street, Liverpool

    Beneath Renshaw Street, Liverpool

    The discovery and exploration of a long lost, little known subterranean passage and tunnel under Renshaw Street, Liverpool City Centre. Located beneath what was once a former tyre fitting garage, next door to the Dispensary Pub. This small but interesting…

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  • Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’

    Demolition of the Former ‘Garston Hotel’

    The Garston Hotel was built in 1853, at the junction of St Mary’s Road, Seddon Road and Dock Road. Built alongside the former Garston Dock Station on the Cheshire Lines Committee Railway (CLC). Customers of the Garston Hotel would have…

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  • Culvert of the Ancient Garston River unearthed

    Culvert of the Ancient Garston River unearthed

    During construction of the new Garston Way bypass (A561) back in the early 1980’s. An old culvert was discovered on ‘Church Road’. The discovery was made where the new Garston Way bypass bridge was being built. The culvert is thought…

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