Mersey Chambers in Liverpool was built for the Harrison Shipping Line in 1878 and is now a Grade II listed building.
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Throwback Thursday: Mersey Chambers, Liverpool
Categories: England, Liverpool, Merseyside
Tags: architecture, Mersey Chambers, photo post, Throwback Thursday
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Oriel Chambers, Liverpool
Oriel Chambers is a Grade 1 listed building in Liverpool that was built in 1864 from a design by Peter Ellis. It’s a particularly striking building and one of the first office buildings in the world to use an iron framed structure – possibly an inspiration for New York’s skyscrapers.
Categories: England, Liverpool
Tags: architect, architecture, oriel chambers, oriel windows, peter ellis
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City Chambers, Glasgow
Glasgow’s City Chambers, the headquarters of Glasgow City Council, is an imposing building that was completed from 1888. There are (pre-COVID) free public tours twice a day Monday to Friday with tickets handed out on a first come first served basis. I got there about half an hour before the start time and was first in a group of about eight people.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
Tags: architecture, City Chambers, council, guided tour, marble, photo post, staircase
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Sir Giles Gilbert Scott
Born into a family of architects, today (9 November) would have been Giles Gilbert Scott’s 140th birthday. He is perhaps most famous for the iconic design of the red telephone box, so here’s a selection of photos of phone boxes taken around the country:
Categories: England
Tags: architect, architecture, Giles Gilbert Scott, photo post, red telephone box, telephone box
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The University of Glasgow
The University of Glasgow was founded in 1451 making it the fourth oldest university in the UK and second oldest in Scotland. They do run tours of the building for visitors but they weren’t running on the day I went so I did the self-guided tour which can be found on the university’s website.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
Tags: architecture, George Gilbert Scott, history, photo post, scottish history, self-guided tour, statue, university, University of Glasgow, walk
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
The main reason I wanted to visit Glasgow last October was to go to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and it turned out to be an even better experience than I’d been expecting, in fact I ended up spending most of the day there. The building itself is beautiful inside and out, designed in a Spanish Baroque style in red sandstone by John W. Simpson and E. J. Milner Allen and opened in 1901.
The Lighthouse, Glasgow
The Lighthouse is Scotland’s National Centre for Design and Architecture. Originally it was the offices of the Glasgow Herald newspaper, designed by the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh as his first public commission and completed in 1895.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
Tags: architecture, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, exhibition, Glasgow, model, museum, photo post
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Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow Cathedral is the oldest cathedral on mainland Scotland, the present building being consecrated in 1197. It’s a large impressive stone building with very high ceilings next to the Necropolis.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
Tags: architecture, cathedral, church, photo post, stained glass, stained glass window, stonework
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Glasgow Necropolis
It should be obvious by now that I enjoy exploring a good cemetery and Glasgow’s Necropolis is one of the best. Established in 1832 it’s located on a hill next to Glasgow Cathedral (featuring in a future post) that, like Highgate in London, was inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
Categories: Glasgow, Scotland
Tags: architecture, cemetery, Glasgow, history, mausoleum, necropolis, Scotland, statue
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Brompton Cemetery, London
After my very successful tour of Highgate Cemetery I decided that I would like to cross off all the so-called “Magnificent Seven” cemeteries in London, starting with Brompton. Opened in 1840 over 200,000 people are buried here and it is the only cemetery in the country managed by the Royal Parks on behalf of the nation. At over 40 acres it was specifically designed to resemble the layout of an open air cathedral and has some stunningly impressive architecture as well as being the final resting place of a large amount of interesting and notable people.
Categories: England, London
Tags: architecture, cemetery, emmeline pankhurst, magnificent seven cemeteries, photo post, squirrel
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