St George's Hall (1841-54), Lime Street, Liverpool

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Exterior views of the building

• Portico
• End view
• Colored photograph c. 1890-1900
• Lime Street and St George's Hall
• The history of the building
• St. George's Hall: The world's first airconditioned building
• Main Air Intake at North End of East Portico

Interior views of the building

• The undercroft
• Great North Water Apparatus (Pipes are 100mm in Diameter).
• Humidifying Steam Injectors below Great North Water Apparatus
• Typical Air Valves
• Position of Gas Jet in Extract Shaft
• Roof Space Over Court No 2 (Originally Civil Court).

Plans of the building

• Longitudinal Section
• Basement

Sculpture on and around St George's Hall

• Thomas Stirling Lee's Liverpool by her shipwrights builds vessels of commerce
• Conrad Dressler's Liverpool by its imports supplies the country with food and corn

References

Library of Congress site. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Viewed 11 February 2009.

"St George's Hall." Viewed 11 February 2008.

"Speeches: Literary and Social: Liverpool, April 10, 1869." Viewed 11 February 2008.

Speel, Bob. "St George's Hall and St John's Gardens, Liverpool." Viewed 11 February 2008.

Sturrock, Neil S. "St George's Hall, Liverpool." The Victorian Web.

Turnor, Reginald. Nineteenth Century Architecture in Britain. London: Batsford, 1950.

Walker, David. Walks Through History: Liverpool. Derby: Breedon, 2007.

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Last modified 20 April 2011