EPW053316 ENGLAND (1937). Liverpool Exchange Railway Station and the city, Liverpool, 1937

Liverpool Overhead Railway

This is the Liverpool Exchange Station frontage and hotel. Siegfried Sassoon frequently stayed at the hotel and was there in 1917 on the evening prior to travelling to London to read his famous 'Soldiers' Declaration' to parliament.

Victoria Street Post Office. Only the lower floors of this building survived the blitz. This part of the building, and the shell,was converted into a shopping mall in the early millenium called 'The MetQuarter' It contains upmarket shops with restaurants etc.

Liverpool Stock Exchange in Exchange Street East.This building was still extant, and the trading therein, was still operating in the early seventies when I moved away from the city.

Exchange Flags. In the nineteenth century many of the merchants in this city preferred to do business outside on the flags, weather permitting of course.In the eighteenth century the adjacent town hall was used as an exchange.

The Liverpool Cotton Exchange. This was once a global centre trading in cotton futures.The ornate frontage of this building can be glimpsed. Some philistines deemed it appropriate to demolish this heritage in the seventies and substitute a bland replacement.

Rear of St George's Hall

St John's Garden

Statue of Minerva sitting on top of the dome of the town hall

Town Hall

Martins Bank Building

Is it chance or design that the doors in the quayside shed lines up with the gaps in the super structure of the ferry. This feature seems to repeat on other vessels in other pictures of the same location. If designed, I assume it was some aid to cargo handling. The barges are probably bunkering the ferry.

Liverpool Exchange station

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