William Brown Street
Victorian cultural boulevard of museums, a library and a Waterloo column with old standard measures.
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This guide to William Brown Street in Liverpool starts at your feet, with a strip of brass and a bronze panel at the base of Wellington's Column, and asks why a war memorial carries the nation's official lengths. It climbs to the Duke of Wellington himself, the Victorian city that took years to raise him, and the metal his statue is said to be made from. Best heard standing at the foot of the column, near the corner with Lime Street.
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