Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts

The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts occupies a grand, red-brick building with tall arched windows on Mount Street. It began as a boys' school, founded in eighteen twenty-five, which counted a young Paul McCartney among its students. When the school closed in the nineteen eighties, the building sat derelict for years. McCartney returned to transform his old classrooms into a state-of-the-art training ground for musicians and actors. The foundation stone still bears the name of the original Victorian institution.