William Brown Street - LIVERPOOL EDITION - Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
N 53° 24.579 W 002° 58.790
30U E 501340 N 5917842
William Brown Street is a road with a number of impressive buildings located in Liverpool City Centre.
Waymark Code: WM17PHE
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/20/2023
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William Brown Street is a road with a number of impressive buildings located in Liverpool City Centre.
"William Brown Street in Liverpool is a road that has an impressive collection of civic buildings and is sometimes referred to as the "Cultural Quarter"
The road was originally a coaching road from the east of the city known as Shaw's Brow.
It was named William Brown Street after William Brown, a local MP and philanthropist, who in 1860 donated land in the area for the building of a library and museum."
Architectural style
The buildings located on the street are built in the Victorian Neoclassical style and include, St George's Hall, the William Brown Library and Museum — housing part of World Museum Liverpool and part of Liverpool Central Library, the Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library — part of Liverpool Central Library, County Sessions House, the Walker Art Gallery and the College of Technology and Museum Extension — part of World Museum Liverpool.
An information sign located on the street gives the following information;
"William Brown Street
William Brown Street has arguably
one of the most impressive collection
of civic buildings in the world.
Developed principally by Liverpool
Corporation, they pivot around the
drumlike Picton Reading Room,
nicknamed 'Picton's Gasometer'.
The Museum and Library, the Walker
Art Gallery and former County
Sessions House contain internationally
important collections created by
Liverpool's merchants and magnates.
The museum was extended westwards
in the early twentieth century thus
completing the group.
William Brown Street was named
after the local MP whose generous
donation made the Museum
building possible."