Identifier: pictureofliverpo00live (find matches)
Title: The picture of Liverpool;
Year: 1808 (1800s)
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Publisher: Liverpool, Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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and is in a style of architecture, corres-ponding with the north front of the Town Hall,which forms the fourth side of the square.—The east side of these buildings on the groundfloor contains a Coffee room 94 feet by 52, withappropriate rooms and offices for the keeper,&c. On the second story over the Coffee roomis intended a room for the Underwriters (uponthe principle of Lloyds in London) 72 feet by36—a second room 69 feet by 29, with severalother rooms attached to them. The north andwest sides of these buildings were intended forBrokers and Merchants offices and Accompt-■ing houses. The subscription shares to thesebuildings were 800 of 100 pounds each. ISosubscriber being allowed to have more than tenshares in one name. The elegant magnificenceof these buildings will be allowed by every be-holder to be very creditable to the town, andcorresponding with its opulence and commercialimportance. It has been regretted by many, that the OldExchange was net taken down immediately
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Liiverj? o. ©x» ISjbtw ^^C:HJssGsaBfvnnaN&9. 144 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. after the late Fire., and that a New Exchangeand Buildings were not built on one side ofthe main street near the present sate, or per-haps better on the scite of the Old Dock, beinga much more central situation for the wholetown. From the great extent of this townsouthwardly., and the many large streets termin-ating in the Old Dock, which occasions a verycircuitous intercourse to foot passengers, andgreat interruption to Commerce by Carting,&c, added to the many accidents happening bydrowning, &c. and above all, the annoyanceof bad air caused by so much stagnant and fil-thy water lying in the very centre of the town,s& highly prejudicial to the inhabitants in ge-neral and particularly so to them inhabiting the-vicinity,—it has been represented by the Phy-sicians to the Body Corporate, and they haveit in contemplation, and it is said to be deter-mined upon that, as soon as they have enlargedand widen

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