2014 Vacation: UK / England / Liverpool / William Brown Street

William Brown Street – Liverpool World Heritage Site

Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City – was inscribed as a cultural World Heritage Site by the World Heritage Committee at its meeting in Suzhou, near Shanghai on 2nd July 2004. Liverpool was inscribes under the theme “Liverpool – the supreme example of a commercial port at the time of Britain’s greatest global influence”. Liverpool’s World Heritage Site has an irregular boundary, with six distinctive areas of historical and cultural importance: The Pier Head, Albert Dock, Stanley Dock, Castle Street, William Brown Street and Lower Duke Street.

This post is on the William Brown Street.
For other buildings in the Liverpool World Heritage Site.. click here..

Created in the mid 19th century as a Victorian cultural center of the city. It demonstrates the city’s aspiration to emulate the culture of ancient Athens and Rome. It is the first sight that passengers arriving from Lime Street Station see and became the city’s major gateway for arrivals on land. Its frontage has recently been restored and a stunning new piazza in front of the station has opened up views of the magnificent St. George’s Hall [1840-55], universally acclaimed by historians and architectural critics as the outstanding example of European neo-classical architecture. Not only was its design based upon a Greek temple, but its position was chosen and its height elevated on its high podium to increase its dominance over its surroundings. The northern edge of the area is defined by the former County Sessions Court, the Walker Art Gallery, County Sessions House, the Picton Library, the World Museum Liverpool. Other important buildings in this area are: Wellington Memorial, Steble Fountain, Lime Street Chambers [former North Western Hotel], and Empire Theater. “The scale of these buildings with their classical columns, pediments, porticoes, cornices and sculpture help to create an exceptionally fine parade of civic buildings“.

I am posting images of buildings on my one-day-trip to Liverpool on June 2, 2014. For more details on these buildings and monuments, check the official website: William Brown Street [Liverpool World Heritage Site].. click here..

William Brown Street – Liverpool World Heritage Site