Liverpool, The William Brown Library And Museum 1895
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The William Brown Library, with its fine portico of six Corinthian columns, was built in 1860 to house the natural history collection of the 13th Earl of Derby; this had been bequeathed to the town in 1851. William Brown was a wealthy merchant who offered to pay for much of the cost of this grand enterprise, and he was rewarded for his generosity with the street and library named after him. There was much celebrating, and a day's holiday for the townspeople, when the building opened; it was the first of a magnificent row of public buildings in this street. It was badly bombed in 1941 and was rebuilt behind the original Grecian frontage.
An extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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