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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #9 on: Monday 16 March 09 19:19 GMT (UK) »
The Liver Birds were supposedly based on the Cormorants, I believe these were part of the City of Liverpool ensignia in some way.
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #10 on: Monday 16 March 09 20:12 GMT (UK) »
http://www.ngw.nl/int/gbr/l/liverpoo.htm

At last... found this about them..
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 13 January 11 22:02 GMT (UK) »
The Liver Birds

The one facing out to the river is the female.
She is watching for the sailors returning from the sea.

The male is watching over the city  - - to see if the pubs are open yet!!!!

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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #12 on: Friday 14 January 11 09:23 GMT (UK) »
Hiya Michael...I am Liverpool born and bred (in Garston) and as a child in the 1950`s I can remember queueing for hours waiting with my dad for his Car Tax and Car Registration....I don`t know if this happened as early as the 1920`s but a huge section of the ground floor was used for the registration of ownership of cars / motorbikes /vans etc and also to tax them
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #13 on: Friday 14 January 11 10:03 GMT (UK) »
The Royal Liver Insurance company presumably have or had several of the floors for their head office.

Other shipping  companies and Insurance companies would probably have rented offices.

Maybe Government departments had offices there.
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #14 on: Friday 14 January 11 10:07 GMT (UK) »
The first Mersey ROAD Tunnel was not opened until 1933 or thereabouts.  Alternative to the ferry was the railway which had a tunnel  under the river.

James Street station is now about three hundred yards away from the Liver Buildings.
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #15 on: Friday 14 January 11 10:54 GMT (UK) »
Hello
Thanks for those snippets, it all helps to build up a picture I don't suppose I will ever find out which of those departments she worked in.
It is said that she met her husband on a train or bus. He was an apprentice at Cammell Laird and lived in Walton on the Hill so it does make some sense, except they would be traveling in different directions. ???
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #16 on: Friday 14 January 11 11:04 GMT (UK) »
If he was on a late shift or an evening shift, then he could have been on his way to work as she was on her way home.
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Re: The Liver Building, Liverpool
« Reply #17 on: Friday 14 January 11 12:14 GMT (UK) »
In Kelly's Directory, 1968 edition, about 75 different outfits occupied parts of the Royal Liver Building, including many shipping* and freight businesses, tax offices (including the motor tax dept), consulates, government offices, insurance brokers and agents, timber merchants etc, etc, as well as the Royal Liver Friendly Society on part of the ground, 8th and 9th floors.

* Including Canadian Pacific, Lamport & Holt,  Clan Line, Houlder, Leyland, Palm Line, Bank Line, Anchor Line and others.  Happy days!

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