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Liverpool Record Office and Merseyside Record Office hold the archives for the city of Liverpool, and the rest of Merseyside. [1] The archives are held at the Liverpool Central Library, and are run by Liverpool City Council. [2] [3] [4]
The Liverpool Civil and Family Court, Vernon Street Liverpool, England. It is operated by His Majesty's Courts Service. The building contains the city's county court and family court. [1] The court started operating from May 2006, although was not official opened until November 2006.
James Picton was born in Liverpool to William Picton, a joiner and timber merchant, and entered his father's business at the age of 13. He later joined the office of Daniel Stewart, an architect and surveyor, eventually taking over the business.
The library shows the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement. It is rendered on a sandstone plinth, apart from some exposed stone in the middle. The library has a slate roof. Its front is symmetrical, with a large central gable containing a window, and half-timbered gablets to the sides. [30] II: Sefton Park Library Aigburth Road, Liverpool
The Liverpool district was home to what the early Europeans mistakenly called the Liverpool Tribe, who were in fact the Cabrogal clan of the Darug Tribe. [1] Governor Macquarie selected a site for a town at Liverpool on 7 November 1810. After establishing a site in the centre of the proposed town for a church, he left the details of laying out ...
The new building was designed by the Liverpool architects F & G Holme in the Neoclassical style [4] and intended to accommodate the quarter sessions of the West Derby Hundred of the historic county of Lancashire: it was built between 1882 and 1884. [2] [5] The building closed as a judicial facility [6] in 1984 when the Crown Courts moved to ...
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The chairman of the William Brown Library and Museum, Sir James Picton, laid the foundation stone of the Picton Reading Room in 1875. It was designed by Cornelius Sherlock, and modelled after the British Museum Reading Room, and was the first electrically lit library in the UK. It was completed in 1879 formally opened by the Mayor of Liverpool ...