St George's Hall
Neoclassical hall of courts and concert rooms with a pioneering Victorian air-conditioning system.
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This guide to St George's Hall in Liverpool follows an Edinburgh chemist and physician, David Boswell Reid, hired in the eighteen-forties with the official title of Ventilator. It goes beneath the building into a brick undercroft of mist fountains, paddle fans and pipe coils, built at a time when Lime Street outside was thick with horse manure. Along the way you'll meet his long feud at Westminster with the architect Charles Barry. Best heard standing at the east portico facing Lime Street.
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