An elevated view looking across Edge Lane towards the buildings of the 'Shipperies Exhibition' overlooking Wavertree Park

Date:
1886
Location:
Wavertree Park, Edge Lane, Edge Hill, Liverpool, Liverpool
Reference:
OP09318
Type:
Photograph (Albumen Print)
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Description

The International Shipperies Exhibition or "The International Exhibition of Navigation, Travel, Commerce and Manufacture", to give it its alternative title, opened in Wavertree Park in May 1886 and continued until November of that year. The life-size copy of the Eddystone Lighthouse, forming part of the exhibition, can be seen in this view.

Content

This is part of the Series: RBO01/29 Early Photographic Print Collection: Merseyside; within the Collection: RBO01 Early Photographic Print Collection

Rights

Source: Historic England Archive

Keywords

Victorian Lighthouse, Victorian Exhibition Hall