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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

New watercolour reconstruction draft 1. Dale Street, Liverpool: early 1860s. Incl. original Exchange Station and Municipal Buildings under construction.

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Watercolour; research rough. Crown Street Station, Liverpool, early 1830s. Smithdown Lane behind/ Crown Street in front. The world's first inter-metropolis passenger railway station. From 1830 the terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, prior to Lime Street.

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Ed Farrell

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3 years

Before Central Station; Bold St. arcades, Renshaw Street. Liverpool early 1860s. How the ropewalks helped shape the city

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Ed Farrell

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2 years

Liverpool (Church Street and the roperies) 1769; with corrections.

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Ed Farrell

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3 months

Version 2 of Liverpool 1675, now more historically accurate (thanks in particular to historian ànd mentor Vrsimility on mastodon). Comments welcome for corrections etc.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

1/15 I am very pleased to be taking part in the 2023 Festival of Archeology. For 12 years, I have created paintings of historic Liverpool (now c.30), using multiple sources, at various points throughout a c. 300 year period to try to bring the City’s past to life #ArchMol23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Lime Street Station, Liverpool. Stage 3 watercolour reconstruction; early 1860s. Second (iron) shed designed by Joseph Locke, built by Richard Turner. Original facade retained. Station buildings by William Tite.

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3 years

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Ed Farrell

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6 years

Watercolour. Liverpool 1823. Before St George's Hall and Wm Brown St.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 months

New reconstruction (replaces previous version) ; Liverpool 1675. Showing the Castle, the new Exchange, the Pool (river inlet later filled in to create the old Dock) with Lord Street crossing by bridge, and the still extant 7 streets.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

Watercolour reconstruction (2nd pass); Liverpool Mann Island, Nova Scotia and the Canning Dock system - 1890

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Thanks very much for all the interest etc. Key to the 1769 image

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

New reconstruction: Liverpool 1769. The ropewalks, Hanover and Church Streets.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

Stage 1 drawing; research rough. Mid 19th century, ropewalks and Renshaw Street

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

A few explanatory notes for this incredible engineering feat.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Liverpool Castle and the Seven Streets, 1680 (revised).

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 months

Key for new version of Liverpool 1675. Thanks to all for support and comments.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

The L'pool and Manchester Railway. First Edge Hill station/'moorish arch'. Right tunnel goes to Crown St. passenger station in distance. Middle to docks at Wapping. Left local storage. Steam locos must stop here and carriages go back and forth to city by gravity or steam cable.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 months

Corrected version 2 of Liverpool 1733 study showing the Old Dock. Comments and corrections welcome as always.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

For ease of ref

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Before Liverpool One. Watercolour. Canning Place, the Custom House and Sailor's home 1915.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Watercolour; Liverpool North docks 2 (Regent Road) - early1860s . Bramley Moore left of centre.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

11 months

A third version of the Crown Street station reconstruction. Now a significantly more accurate representation thanks to collaboration with @LMRailway and historian Vrsimility.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Watercolour reconstruction. Dale Street; junction with Stanley Street. Liverpool 1863. Cotton bales on the way to Cheapside.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

10 months

Pen drawing of Liverpool University's north campus. Fronted by Alfred Waterhouse's red brick Victoria buildings on Brownlow Hill, and with the three wings of his Infirmary (now part of the Uni) on Dover Street

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Ed Farrell

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4 months

Re previous, key as requested. And thanks very much for your interest and kind comments

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Wonderfully titled bookshop on Mount Pleasant. Watercolour sketch.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

The Lime Street story. Reconstruction 1840. The first station with original facade and wooden shed. Asylum being demolished for start of St George's Hall build. Some speculation in detail for comment.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Illustration; moonlit St Andrew's Church Renshaw Street, Liverpool and the Roscoe Arcade; 1863

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

Illustration for piece on eighteenth Century Liverpool. Apple harvesting in the Church Street orchard, 1769. Be safe.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

Watercolour reconstruction; Waterloo Road Docks and Great Howard Street (early 1850s)

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

Watercolour illustration for Liverpool in the English Civil War. Prince Rupert surveys Liverpool from high ground above the Fall Well. June 1644

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

Lime Street and station development. So, the story so far - subject to further research

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Liverpool 1735. The 'old dock' is new.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

Mann Island Pass 2; Explanatory Legend

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 months

Two reconstructions of the same view emphasises the rapidity of development from the somewhat medieval Liverpool left, to the growing port 58 years later, right. Lord Molyneux's house above castle now just part of Lord street. The pool now filled in but for the Old Dock

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

9 months

Sketch of Premier Building; corner of Church Street/ Hanover Street. Gerald de Courcy Fraser 1914. Left, Hanover House (Crane's building) Aubrey Thomas 1915. Buildings influenced early by American simplified classical, department store architecture.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Stage 1 research rough for 'Mann Island and Nova Scotia - 1890'. Context shows why it was thought of as an island at that time.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

Research rough V3; reconstruction of Liverpool's short-lived Crown Street Station 1835 ( terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway) world's first inter urban passenger station. Thanks for the expertise and generosity of @LMRailway and local historian Vrsimility (Vrs).

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

Interior of Liverpool's original, magnificent - sadly lost - St John's Market 1935. Watercolour illustration supporting 1935 reconstruction.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Moving ahead with the Lime Street story. Stage 4 drawing. 1868

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

First Edge Hill study. Final (for now) with amended notes. Thanks v much @LMRailway Paul and all other commenters. On to the second Edge Hill!

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

10 months

Reconstruction of 'Mulberry', the first ship to leave Liverpool's Old Dock in 1715. (Where Liverpool One is today). The ship was owned by Bryan Blundell. Master Mariner, slave trade participant and one time Mayor. He is famous for founding Blue Coat school two years later.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Lime Street Story, 4. What happened next? 1868: Old facade is demolished. Turner's shed and Tite's building both cut back for the Railway Hotel build. much housing demolition and a huge cutting to Copperas Hill gouged out of rock. A new shed (today's North shed) is begun.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

Lime Street Station; what happened next? Mid-1870s. Waterhouse's Railway hotel is complete, as is the North shed (now largest such structure in the world). The station we know today emerges. Land being cleared to re-route Skelhorne St. and excavate for the South shed to come

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

The Lime Street story so far. And subject to more research. Thanks to our historians for the considerable help to date; revealing, in some cases, new landscape archaeology

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

As supporting illustration for the recent railway collection of reconstructions, a pencil sketch of Alfred Waterhouse's amazing North Western Hotel - fronting the North shed at Lime Street station.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

6 years

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool Workhouse 1908. From the OS map of that date

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

A short description of the Liverpool terminus of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway during the 1830s.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Lime St. station reconstructions. Third stage research drawing

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

4/15 The surprising result of ‘what came before St. George’s Hall’. 1823 Liverpool. A mature Georgian township with mills, infirmary, seaman’s hospital and asylum. Sources allow good accuracy in a view not seen since then (only two years after Napoleon’s death). #ArchMoL23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Re: previous post. You can see the same junction with Stanley Street in its wider context; middle-ish of Dale Street running diagonally

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

A little context pane to cover the relationship between the two L&MR Edge Hill stations; answering some earlier questions.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

Detail from second version of panorama 'maiden voyage of the Mauretania June 1939'

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

6 years

Vauxhall 1865. Watercolour. Unimaginable poverty existed between Vauxhall road and Scotland road (top right). The road strking through is Marybone.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

The currently topical St Philips Church Hardman Street, (bottom left) in its 1848 setting

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 years

Liverpool Pier Head and Commercial district 1907. Watercolour

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Final version of North Shore Docks 2; 1864 (Bramley Moore); with numerous additions/updates: thanks for contributions & @vrsimility @Waite99D Revised legend to follow @EvertonStadium

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

The originals of Liverpool 1823 and 1865, now framed, take their place in the studio

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

Illustration for a piece on eighteenth century Liverpool. Press gang in action outside the Old Red House, School Lane, 1777

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Liverpool Castle and the seven streets, 1675. On the cusp of change.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 months

Initial research rough for consultation. Reconstruction of the William Jackson, a slave ship during Liverpool's heinous slave trade. In for repair in Canning Graving dock. C 1785.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

2/15 For later dates, (e.g. L’pool Pier Head and surround 1907), greater accuracy is possible (100s of photos, mapping improves, more landscape art, and some buildings or fragments survive (though few). A new view, predating 3 graces & unseen since - emerges #ArchMoL23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

10 years

Pen and watercolour (Lid-off Liverpool). Looking into Thomas Rigby's pub and rear courtyard. Leather Lane right. http://t.co/HqehKx5ZQx

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 years

Hope street 1848. Watercolour.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 years

Liverpool Hope St final. Thanks all for you RTs etc. @biennial @liverpoolphil

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

7/15 Materials (including legends as in this 1769 view) are shared on twitter. Comments, images and corrections result, from organisations, photographic collectors e,g, @angiesliverpool & local historians e.g. @Liverpool1207 and #ArchMoL23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

@EvansianI @Waite99D @YOLiverpool @BRPimages @angelcakepics @CultureLPool @scousescene @lpoolcouncil @MikeRoyden @Beau_Liverpool @DKLHeritage @stratusimagery Watercolour reconstruction of that area c. 1915

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Sketch of the - still amazing - former Adelphi bank, Castle Street.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Building the Anglican 1939. Watercolour. A Liverpool almost entirely demolished.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

I've enjoyed patronising the historic Pumphouse pub at the Albert Dock, including at its sunlit waterside; I often wondered in a desultory way, what it pumped.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 years

Crosby village as it looked 1909 from OS map and sources. Watercolour.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

6 years

The same view now. Note the triangle of land containing the column/fountain is the boundary of old islington market

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

Legend for Dale St, early 1860s

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

6 years

Info overlay as requested

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 years

Liverpool Chinatown. Watercolour illustration.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Previous image with legend

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

The associated 1935 recon

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

7 months

Frontispiece illustrations for chapters 9/13 of proposed book.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

3 years

The space still exists today with intact tunnels and excavated 'rooms' in the side of the cutting. Despite it and Crown St. being the first steam railway passenger stations in the world, it lies derelict.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

6 years

Large scale panorama, mixed media. Maiden voyage of the Mauretania (2) Liiverpool, 1939.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

@readerjanedavis @angiesliverpool Corrected! I reconstructed the area as it looked in 1939 and long prior to its mass demolition. Be interesting to know where and when the roundabout arrived. And parliament Place is in there too Jane.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

10 years

My project to reconstruct Hope St (N) in 1848 from OS maps, photos, etc. Junction of Hope St/Hardman St bottom left http://t.co/QNkoiJDgP2

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 months

I have a previous reconstruction of Bramley Moore. Were you thinking of something more chronologically extensive|? @CBeesleyEcho

D r. J o h n R e e d

@DrDeanWas17

4 months

@edwardrolf Hi Ed, it would very interesting to create a pictorial timeline of Bramley Moore/Nelson Dock as it enters another stage of its evolution. Maybe the club would be interested in sponsoring such a project?

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

Simplified explanation of the Mersey Railway Tunnel infrastructure 1890 and its relationship with the Mann Island buildings

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

4 years

@DaveyGoodison @oobergrafik @angiesliverpool Imagine if the Custom House, the surviving adjacent streets and the Overhead railway had survived

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

13/15 The latest. I hope this ‘open book’ creative process (art/history combined) adds something to Liverpool’s historic resources and civic memory. I think community memory reinforces identity and contributes importantly to the meaning of our lives. #ArchMoL23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

5 years

I drew this little vignette for a piece I am doing on the Liverpool workhouse. Its called 'waiting to enter'.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

10 years

Watercolour of facades 14/16 Cook St Lpool. Iconic Peter Ellis bldg is left; housing @LiverpoolOpen #liverpoolart http://t.co/9iojOJLWOO

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 years

St George's Hall: lit up Liverpool. Watercolour.

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

8/15 A watercolour showing an aerial view of the Custom House & Jacobean sailor’s home etc. Canning Street 1915. Bombing and subsequent demolition virtually obliterated this grand area. Today, it is the home of Liverpool One, the Hilton Hotel, Chavasse Park etc #ArchMoL23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

3/15 Choosing a landscape to recreate combines historical/social importance, how obliterated unknown the past is, or as with ’s quarter shown here, just ‘what did it look like before?’ Multiple sources and artistic creativity combine to begin #ArchMol23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

10 years

Watercolour study seeks to articulate the beauty of Liverpool's Georgian Quarter. 9 of the best terrace sections? http://t.co/fSZFBm66ku

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Crosby beach. The changing atmosphere around Gormley's work is always remarkable. It seemed particularly poignant this evening

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

May 2005 - foundations underway for Liverpool One following the Moat House Hotel demolition

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

1 year

5/15 The broad process from 4 different paintings; a) Research notes/sketches; multiple sources/consultation (Nova Scotia 1890) b) Pencil research rough (pre Central Station 1860s) c) pen and ink ‘axonometric’ drawing of L’pool Uni d) final watercolour (Dale St. 1863) #ArchMoL23

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

9 years

Watercolour. The cavern Quarter Liverpool - Matthew Street centralised. Lord Street left, Victoria Street right. http://t.co/VFJiOJMNix

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Re the Nova Scotia/Mann Island recon underway, a research trip to pretty well the only two survivors but for Canning docks - St. George's dock passage and the working residue of the pumping station

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

2 years

Following on from the previous thread, a rudimentary research sketch for part of a much larger painting; growing accuracy for the Strand side of Mann Island (pumping/vent station and Harbour-master's house) c. 1895

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Ed Farrell

@edwardrolf

8 years

Bluecoat chambers 1921. From the tower of St Peter's. Watercolour.

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