Thanks to Telf, for inviting me along on this trip and also to Dangle Angle, Lavino and their Younguns for the good company, I was heartened to see youngsters walking around the places that we visited today taking photographs with their own cameras and showing such an interest in the history.
Having failed here once before I was glad to be going back to have another look, I know that it has been done to death and so I wont post too many images and mostly I was interested in the smaller details.
some history from Wiki
Built in 1937 The art-deco building is the work of the notable Liverpool architect Sir Ernest Alfred Shennan. Most of his other work is also in Merseyside and comprises a diversity of building types. His inter-war designs included Westminster Banks; five cinemas including the listed Forum Cinema on Lime Street, Liverpool; restaurant interiors (The French Cafe and Arabic Cafe, both 1933, Liverpool); dance halls (The Grafton Rooms, Liverpool, 1934); hotels and office blocks. Greenbank Drive is Shennan’s only synagogue and is very different to the rest of his oeuvre up to that time which, apart from the banks, was distinctive art deco.
The Synagogue was listed in 1983, but that listing was upgraded to a Grade II* after closure in 2008 thanks to pressure by the Twentieth Century Society. It was once the largest expanse of roof unsupported by pillars anywhere in the country. The synagogue has received a substantial redevelopment grant and is on all those Heritage At Risk lists.
According to the C20 Society, The Synagogue is architecturally by far the most important and innovatory 20th century synagogue in England and is the finest surviving synagogue in Europe dating from the inter-war period. It also has important socio-historic significance as representing a last late optimistic cultural expression of European Jewry before the holocaust.
One of the main building, and it is impressive
Some steps that went into the basement dance hall
note the really impressive arches in the ceiling and the gorgeous chandeliers
This is what they look like from above, here the main arc of the ceiling
Here the main arc with some window arches
This is for winding down one of the chandeliers to change the Bulbs..think only fools and horses
One of the lovely chandeliers
This is when to turn up
This is were to put your mulah
The foyer
reserved seat
Keeping those carpets tight
switch in the office
cheers for looking
Having failed here once before I was glad to be going back to have another look, I know that it has been done to death and so I wont post too many images and mostly I was interested in the smaller details.
some history from Wiki
Built in 1937 The art-deco building is the work of the notable Liverpool architect Sir Ernest Alfred Shennan. Most of his other work is also in Merseyside and comprises a diversity of building types. His inter-war designs included Westminster Banks; five cinemas including the listed Forum Cinema on Lime Street, Liverpool; restaurant interiors (The French Cafe and Arabic Cafe, both 1933, Liverpool); dance halls (The Grafton Rooms, Liverpool, 1934); hotels and office blocks. Greenbank Drive is Shennan’s only synagogue and is very different to the rest of his oeuvre up to that time which, apart from the banks, was distinctive art deco.
The Synagogue was listed in 1983, but that listing was upgraded to a Grade II* after closure in 2008 thanks to pressure by the Twentieth Century Society. It was once the largest expanse of roof unsupported by pillars anywhere in the country. The synagogue has received a substantial redevelopment grant and is on all those Heritage At Risk lists.
According to the C20 Society, The Synagogue is architecturally by far the most important and innovatory 20th century synagogue in England and is the finest surviving synagogue in Europe dating from the inter-war period. It also has important socio-historic significance as representing a last late optimistic cultural expression of European Jewry before the holocaust.
One of the main building, and it is impressive
Some steps that went into the basement dance hall
note the really impressive arches in the ceiling and the gorgeous chandeliers
This is what they look like from above, here the main arc of the ceiling
Here the main arc with some window arches
This is for winding down one of the chandeliers to change the Bulbs..think only fools and horses
One of the lovely chandeliers
This is when to turn up
This is were to put your mulah
The foyer
reserved seat
Keeping those carpets tight
switch in the office
cheers for looking
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