After the completion of the Dock Board
Offices, Liverpool's most famous landmark was built, the headquarters of the
'Royal Liver Friendly Society' otherwise know as the Liver Building.
It took 5 years to build and it topped by the famous 'Liver Birds'.
The three pictures on
Page Four show images of the docks, the original plot of land used to build
the Liver Building on, and finally the building itself with the city's Overhead
Railway running in front of it.
Liverpool's status as a trade centre
increased rapidly through the 1800's and at one point it was handling a fifth of
the entire worlds shipping. This in turn lead to the growth of the city centre.
The three pictures on Page Five show two different views of a busy Victorian Church Street.
The third picture shows that original 'Church' itself, St. Peters. It stood
where the HMV shop is today, a single marked paving stone outside the record
shop serves to remind us of this.
As prosperous as the city was though this period, Liverpool had some of the
worst examples of Victorian 'slums'.The influx of immigrants lead to a massive
population rise, this in turn lead to dreadful housing and sanitation
conditions.
Whole families - infant to grandparent - would be crammed into single rooms or
cellars leading to a population density of 66,000 per square mile.
Page Six shows three images of life in the Victorian 'courts' - a maze of
filthy back to back houses spread over the Everton area where most immigrants
settled.