It's Our Pride and Joy ; City Historian Steve Binns Takes Catherine Jones On a Tour of St George's Hall
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IT is widely hailed as one of the finest neoclassical buildings in Europe. And Steve Binns himself describes St George's Hall as "a building that only a capital city might attempt". But in it he can also detect the exact statement Liverpool's merchants and businessmen wanted to make - look at Liverpool and what we have achieved.
Steve, who gives tours of the hall, says: "The merchants wanted a powerful statement of trade, while Elmes determined to build a classical building. He loved Greece.See the full content of this document
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It's Our Pride and Joy ; City Historian Steve Binns Takes Catherine Jones On a Tour of St George's Hall
"At that time, Liverpool was in the league tables of both the richest and poorest cities in the world.
"This series of buildings civilised Liverpool."THE NORTH ENTRANCETHE north entrance hall was the only part of the building architect Harvey Lonsdale Elmes saw in any completeness before his untimely death in 1847.And it is quite differently decor...See the full content of this document
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