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The foundation
stone for the Royal Liver Building was laid in 1908 and the building
opened three years later. It was constructed using a revolutionary
technique where a ferro-concrete frame using a network of columns and
steel beams carried the weight of the outer and inner walls and the
floors. The outer walls are thin panels of concrete dressed in granite.
The clock faces are famous - 25 feet in diameter (2.5 feet larger than Big
Ben) and when installed in 1911 was the largest electrically driven clock
in the UK, accurate to 30 seconds in the year. |
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