Ropewalks and Bold Street Walk

The Bluecoat features a three story facade of red brick and local sandstone, distinguished by a distinctively curved wall and a clock set into the front gable. Built in seventeen seventeen, it began as a charity school for orphaned…

The Bridewell features a stark, sand-colored stone facade with heavily barred, arched windows that sit low to the street level. This building served as a nineteenth century police station and holding facility for prisoners awaiting trial…

The Merchant occupies a low-slung, white-painted corner building on Slater Street with a wide, industrial-style courtyard hidden behind its high brick walls. Originally a wholesale fruit and vegetable warehouse serving the old city…

The Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, known as FACT, occupies a glass-fronted building on Wood Street marked by a cluster of jagged, colorful structural fins along its exterior. It began as a video collective in nineteen…

Bold black lettering marks the sign above Ropes and Twines on Bold Street. This narrow building sits on a site that once functioned as a commercial ropery during the nineteenth century. Raw hemp and flax arrived at the nearby docks, and…

News From Nowhere occupies a building marked by a bold, hand-painted mural of colorful figures on its brick exterior. It opened in nineteen seventy-four as a small, volunteer-run stall selling socialist pamphlets. When the original site…

The jagged, roofless stone walls of Saint Luke’s Church stand open to the Liverpool sky. Built in the early nineteenth century, the structure survived over a hundred years of services before a German incendiary bomb tore through the…