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The library is located in several adjoining historic buildings on William Brown Street.Its first building was the William Brown Library and Museum building which was completed in 1860 to the designs of John Weightman Surveyor to Liverpool Corporation, (not to be confused with his near contemporary John Grey Weightman) [1] and which it has always shared with the city's museum, now known as ...
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 ...
The building currently houses part of the World Museum Liverpool and Liverpool Central Library. The William Brown Library and Museum building was conceived as a replacement for the Derby Museum (containing the Earl of Derby's natural history collection) which then shared two rooms on the city's Duke Street with a library.
Liverpool Central Library; P. Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library This page was last edited on 1 January 2014, at 02:55 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
Liverpool Central Library; O. The Old Library, Liverpool; P. Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library; W. William Brown Library and Museum This page was last edited on ...
The library part of the building closed in 1942 and its collection of books was given to Liverpool Public Library. [12] Ten years later, after a century and a half in the building, the club moved into new premises in the city centre while the Lyceum became Grade II listed building on 28 June 1952.
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Grade I, Grade II* and notable Grade II (having a separate Wikipedia entry) listed buildings in the metropolitan boroughs of Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral in Merseyside. There are over 5000 listed buildings in Merseyside, and approximately half a million in England and Wales .