Photographic copy of a drawing showing the Liver Building

Date:
24 Oct 1908
Location:
Royal Liver Building, Georges Pier Head, Liverpool
Reference:
BL20350
Type:
Photograph (Negative)
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Description

The Royal Liver Assurance was founded in 1850 and within five years it had opened offices in most major cities in the country. In 1908-11 it erected a new head office on Liverpool's waterfront. The Liver Building, designed by Aubrey Thomas, was constructed using the then revolutionary technique where a ferro-concrete frame using a network of columns and steel beams carried the weight of the outer walls and the floors. The two Liver Birds that sit on top of the building were designed by a German sculptor, Carl Bernard Bartels. Bartels was arrested as a German citizen at the outbreak of the Great War and imprisoned on the Isle of Man. The Bedford Lemere daybook records that the photograph was taken for A and F Manuelle who were quarry owners and stone merchants.

Content

This is part of the Series: HBL01/01 Series Of Photographic Negatives And Prints; within the Collection: HBL01 The Bedford Lemere Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

People & Organisations

Photographer: Boucher, Adolphe Augustus: Bedford Lemere And Company

Keywords

Edwardian Commercial Office