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In 1907, the Royal Liver Group had over 6,000 employees. Given the need for larger premises, the company approved the construction of a new head office. The building was designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas; the foundation stone was laid on 11 May 1908 and just 3 years later, on 19 July 1911, the building was officially opened by Lord Sheffield. [5]
Royal Liver were then approached again by Royal London in February 2010. [4] Talks continued for some time, and the board of Royal Liver agreed the terms of a potential merger in April 2011. [5] The delegates of Royal Liver voted in favour of the merger at the AGM on 12 May 2011. [6] The transfer to Royal London was completed on 1 July 2011.
This is an office building on the site of the former Tower of Liverpool, with crenellated turrets providing a link to this. It is one of the earliest steel-framed buildings in the country, and is clad in white glazed terracotta. [4] [12] [13] II* Royal Liver Building: Pier Head, Liverpool
Building 3 52.9 m (174 ft) [1] Building 2 43.2 m (142 ft) ... Cunard Building and Royal Liver Building began in 2008 during Liverpool's year as European Capital of ...
The design of New Hall Place is described as a brutalist response to the nearby Royal Liver Building in terms of massing and height. [3] New Hall Place is situated on Old Hall Street (one of Liverpool's main commercial and financial areas) and the lower three floors serve as the Capital Car Park — a 1,100 capacity secure guarded car park. [4]
The building was constructed in 1906 [1] to a design by Walter Aubrey Thomas, who also designed the Royal Liver Building and Tower Buildings.It was originally symmetrical about a central turret, but the half of the building, the part extending towards North John Street, was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. [1]
In the early years of the twentieth century, while living and working in Harringay, London, Bartels entered and won a national competition to design the Liver Birds [1] which stand on the top of Walter Aubrey Thomas's Royal Liver Building on the Pier Head in central Liverpool. [2]
Liverpool Naval Memorial Merchant Navy Memorial, with the memorial plinth and plaques behind, and the lantern of the Liverpool Naval Memorial beyond. The Liverpool Naval Memorial, also known as the Memorial to the Missing of the Naval Auxiliary Personnel of the Second World War or the Merchant Navy War Memorial, is a war memorial at Pier Head beside the River Mersey in Liverpool, near to the ...