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This building was named after Sir James Allanson Picton, antiquary and architect, knighted in 1881, the first chairman of the Liverpool Libraries Committee.

It contained many fashionable and important buildings, and was the home of many of the rising insurance companies who did business on the back of the Liverpool shipping companies.

The junction of Castle Street and Water Street, outside the Town Hall, has always been one of the busiest in Liverpool, and a natural meeting place.

During the early decades of the 19th century, Bristol was losing trade to Hull, Liverpool, London and the South Wales ports owing to its high dock charges.

As early as 1877 the Senate applied to the Privy Council for the college to be raised to a university, but the application was contested by similar institutions in Liverpool and Leeds.

Edward Melly was born in Liverpool in 1857, but came to Nuneaton after being educated at Rugby School.

We see here the open area outside the Liverpool Exchange, which was known as Exchange Flags.

The Royal Navy once had much stronger ties with Liverpool than it does now.

The main A59 road from Liverpool to Preston runs through the centre of the village, and at the far end, rises over the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

A Frenchman, M Andre, a gardener, and Liverpool's Mr Lewis Hornblower, architect, won that competition, and set about transforming the 233 acres bought from the Earl of Sefton.

This is the chief Mersey bathing-place, which at once gains and loses by its proximity to the great commercial city of Liverpool.

In 1699, Liverpool was granted parish status; plans were made to build a new church for this parish, which had broken away from Walton.

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital has closed since this photograph was taken.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

Work on the Leeds & Liverpool began in 1770.

The Docks were once an independent company, but money troubles forced them to join the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board and to be controlled from Liverpool.

Liverpool Road was a long road running from Church Street, Eccles to the airport out at Barton.

Liverpool's fifth Customs House was built on the site of the Old Dock and opened in 1839.

The name Hoylake refers to Hoyle Lake, a deep-water anchorage just off the shore and favoured by ships transporting cargoes of goods and passengers either along the Dee Estuary or into Liverpool.

Started in 1850 by William Inman, of Liverpool, the company was sold to an American concern in 1886, so at the time of our photograph the Liverpool firm was being controlled from the other side of the

The bas-relief friezes along the front of the building represent four royal visits to Liverpool.

Top Locks was named thus because if its location at the top of a large set of locks which opened in about 1780; they brought boats from the River Mersey and Liverpool up to the Bridgewater Canal.

The tower was erected on Bradda Head in 1871 to the memory of William Milner, a Liverpool safe manufacturer who did much to ease the lot of local fishermen and their families.

Work began in 1864 to construct a line from Weaver Junction to provide the LNWR with a more direct route from London and Crewe to Liverpool.