Archive for: 2019

Liverpool Fruit Exchange - February 2019

27 February 2019 - Posted in Exploring by tomr - Comments

There seems to be relatively little information about this place on the internet, hence I've just wheeled out the standard chunk of history that people have been using from Historic England. No.10-16 Victoria Street was built in c.1888 as a railway goods depot for the London & North Western Read more

Derby and Hartley Buildings, Liverpool University - February 2019

03 February 2019 - Posted in Exploring by tomr - Comments

Similarly with the Fruit Exchange there appears to be minimal information available on the internet about these buildings, there is a fairly detailed history of Liverpool University available here: British History. There are brief mentions of the Hartley building as follows: a handsome botanical Read more

Cardiff City Asylum, Whitchurch - January 2019

08 January 2019 - Posted in Exploring by tomr - Comments

I have a previous report on here from August 2017, during that visit we had really been limited in what we saw due to the place being fairly tight, so I'd wanted to come back ever since really. We made a brief flying visit last year on the way back from Cefn Coed but we just had a bit of a mooch Read more