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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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