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Old Photographs of Liverpool: The Customs House 3

cleveland square 1930
Cleveland Square and the Customs House 1930


Viewed from South Castle Street around 1910..

customs house 1919
.. in 1919..

south castle st ruins 1941
.. and the same location after the May Blitz of 1941


What remained after German bombing in 1941. The gutted Customs House is in the centre background.
Lord Street is to the left and South Castle Street, pictured above but now cleared of the worst of the rubble, in the centre.
The remarkably-unscathed Queen Victoria Monument in Derby Square is in the foreground and remains with us today.

plan of the customs house
Plan of the Customs House

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