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Report - Dale Street Magistrates Court, Liverpool - October 2021

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GRONK

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Regular User
October 2021

The Visit
Visited on two occasions, the first was a nighttime visit with @stranton and @coolboyslim and the second was a solo visit on a wet weekday morning. The building is huge and I could have easily spent double the amount of time I did in there. It appears to have been left in a semi-stripped state with some court rooms looking untouched and others that have been completely gutted. But there was nothing to suggest that this work has taken place recently.

This History
Designed by John Grey Weightman and constructed between 1857 and 1859, the huge Grade II listed facade on Liverpool's Dale Street has seen more than 150 years of notorious gangsters, petty thieves and falsely accused defendants have who have stood in its docks. In 2007 it was announced that the Dale Street building would be close and facilities relocated to the Crown Courts on Dervy Square as part of a project with a budget of £35m, for a new complex would comprise of fourteen courtrooms which would become knows as the Queen Elizabeth II Law Courts. My the middle of 2015 all persons and cases had been relocated to the new facility and the building sat empty.

Merseyside Police announced in 2015 that they were looking into purchasing the building with a view to use if for police dog training, however these plans were later abandoned by the force. It was also announced in late 2018 that a developer was preposing to convert the building into a 'high-end' four-star hotel which would see the courtrooms converted into function rooms, prisoner cells into luxury hotel rooms, and the former reception area into a new entrance. However all plans appear to have fallen through at this time, possibly as a result of the pandemic. Whilst the criminals, magistrates and members of staff have now left the court corridors the building still stands as a monument to the traditions and prestige of our historic court system.

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Cheers for looking :thumb
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