Sefton Park Palm House
Octagonal Victorian glasshouse ringed by statues of explorers and botanists, set in a grand park.
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This guide to the Sefton Park Palm House in Liverpool follows Henry Yates Thompson, a Liverpool-born newspaper owner turned collector of medieval illuminated manuscripts, and the strict rule he set for the books he loved. It ties his collecting to the glass octagon he paid for in eighteen ninety-six and the eight statues he chose for its corners. Best heard walking slowly around the outside, stopping at the marble Darwin.
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