Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside

Town Hall, Liverpool, Merseyside

Photograph taken 13 September 2006 © Ms Pamela Jackson LRPS. Source Historic England Archive ref: 359717

Liverpool Town Hall one of the many fine buildings that displayed the wealth of the city; much of it derived from the slave trade.

Location

Merseyside Liverpool

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

Themes

Gravestone of Scipio Africanus, 1720, St Mary's Church, Henbury, Bristol. The gravestone bears an interesting inscription giving an insight into how black people were thought of at this time in history.

Slavery

Tags

victorian building town hall slavery slave trade