The Bluecoat
Queen Anne-style former charity school of 1717, now an arts centre around a cobbled courtyard.
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This guide to the Bluecoat in Liverpool starts low down in a quiet corner of its cobbled courtyard, with marks cut into a cornerstone by an unknown hand. It reaches back to the charity school founded here in seventeen-oh-eight for orphaned and destitute children, and to the men who raised its walls on bricks fired on site. You'll also hear about the young artists who moved into the empty rooms after the school left. Best heard standing in the front courtyard, facing the one-handed clock.
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