Comment on Liver Building
It is just unique. Like the Liverpool People.
Comment on Liver Building posted 2008-01-07 by TONY ASPINALL from FILEY NORTH YORKSHIRE
Comment on Liver Building
Surely as famous as just about anything on the Thames waterfront. So imposing, and featured in the Liver Birds and Brookside.
Comment on Liver Building posted 2007-07-05 by Ian Wilson from M'bro
Comment on Liver Building
The liver birds atop the Liver Building stayed there throughout the endless nights of wartime bombing suffered by the people living in the dock area and downtown Liverpool, and did not fly away in the face of danger.
Comment on Liver Building posted 2007-03-02 by Brian from Canada
Comment on Liver Building
Who can see a picture of the Liver Building without thinking of it's location in Northern England, Liverpool? Birthplace of the Beatles, City of Culture to be, the Liver Birds are the adopted emblem of Liverpool, recognisable everywhere! The Royal Liver Building (prounced Ly-ver) is one of the city of Liverpool's most recognisable landmarks. It stands at 90 metres (295 feet) and has 13 floors. Since its completion in 1911 it has overlooked the River Mersey from its waterfront location, on the Pier Head, and forms one of the "three graces" along with the Port of Liverpool Building, and the Cunard Building. It was designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas, and is one of the earliest examples of multi-storey reinforced concrete construction. This is reflected in the building's Grade 1 Listed Building status. Its architectural masterpiece is the pair of clock towers, from which ships could tell the time as they passed en route along the river. The clock faces are actually larger than the clock face of Big Ben! In fact, they are the largest clock dials in Britain. In 1953 electronic chimes were installed to serve as a memorial to the members of the Royal Liver Friendly Society who died during the two World Wars. At night time the clock dials are illuminated. Carl Bernard Bartels designed the two Liver Bird sculptures that crown each clock tower. Legend has it that if the Liver Birds ever fly away, the city of Liverpool will cease to exist! Icons indeed, I think everyone will agree!
Comment on Liver Building posted 2006-01-30 by Lesley O'Connor from Lancaster
Comment on Liver Building
As is the case with the Mersey Ferries, another famous Liverpool icon is apparently dismissed. Yet, as I write, cockney rhyming slang. an invented and in any case minority language, is being voted an icon by a majority. No wonder that foreigners consider Britain to be a land of guardsmen, beefeaters and pearly kings.
Comment on Liver Building posted 2006-01-25 by William Hughes - Wiltshire from Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Comment on Liver Building
This should include all the Liverpool Waterfront, just in case the powers that be change it, God forbid.
Comment on Liver Building posted 2006-01-18 by Denise C Cook from Crosby Merseyside
Comment on Liver Building
It is just unique. Like the Liverpool People.
Comment on Liver Building posted 2008-01-14 by TONY ASPINALL from FILEY NORTH YORKSHIRE