1869 Building Workshops For The Outdoor Blind Of Liverpool, Cornwallis Street, Liverpool Editorial Photo

Workshops for the Outdoor Blind of Liverpool, Cornwallis Street, Liverpool. The foundation stone of the new workshops and institution of the Society for the Out-door Blind at Liverpool was recently laid. The building, which is to be of a horse-shoe shape or plan, having its closed end to Cornwallis Street, will cover 962 square yards, and will have a frontage to the street of 36 yards. The centre portion of the front will contain upon the ground floor a vestibule, show-room, manager’s office, and principal staircase leading to the two upper floors of the central block. Externally the building will be faced with cream-coloured bricks and red-stone dressings; and the style of its architecture is to be Pointed Gothic of the very simplest character. Mr George Redmayne is the architect.