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This is a Grade II* three-tier dome
conservatory palm house designed and built by Mackenzie and Moncur of
Edinburgh which opened in 1896. Liverpool millionaire Henry Yates Thompson
(the great nephew of the founder of Princes Park) gifted £10,000 to the
city to fund the construction. It was designed in the tradition of Joseph
Paxton's glass houses and was stocked originally with a rich collection of
exotic plants. During the Liverpool Blitz of
May 1941 a bomb fell nearby and shattered the glass. It was reglazed in
1950 at a cost of £6,163 with costs covered by War Restoration funds. A
period of decline and deterioration culminated in its closure in the 1980s
on grounds of safety.
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