real time web analytics
Report - - Wellington Rooms/The Irish Centre - Liverpool - May 2022 | Leisure Sites | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - Wellington Rooms/The Irish Centre - Liverpool - May 2022

Hide this ad by donating or subscribing !

Liverpool Urbex

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
Another one that's been on my list for years! Decent explore nothing much inside but the architecture makes it worth it. Sadly it's looking a bit sorry for itself inside.

Access was effortless, I feel safe writing this because I've been told it's sealed again now, well I bloody hope it is can"t have this going the way of the ABC.

Anyway, here is some history, copied from http://www.hiddenliverpool.org.uk/. (sorry currently writing my dissertation so cba ;))

"Completed in 1816, the Wellington Rooms is a neo-classical building on Mount Pleasant which were designed by Edmund Aitkin as the assembly rooms of the Wellington Club. Now more commonly known as the Irish Centre, it was the venue for high-society balls, college dances and parties and was at the heart of Liverpool life.
The Wellington Rooms closed in the 1920's, but remained a place of entertainment, becoming the Embassy Rooms, Rodney Rooms, the Rodney Youth Centre and the Irish Centre, which many people still know the building as today. The building closed in the late 1990s, when a property developer took over the lease. Attempts were made to renovate into a boutique hotel but planning permission was refused.
The residual portion of the developer's lease passed to the Crown in early 2011. Liverpool City Council, which owns the freehold of the site, has served a number of notices on the leaseholder. The Wellington Rooms was included in the Liverpool Echo's Stop the Rot campaign. A campaign is now under way to save the building and bring it back into use, and a local design practice have undertaken work to explore new uses; Dance Liverpool's dance centre and an office, function room, restaurant and University use."


Sorry if the photos look a bit overdone, I'm still new to editing urbex shots.
Shot on Sony A6400 + E16-55

52091943848_9d25c805f2_k.jpg
DSC00088 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52091956873_b4ba0d0fd9_k.jpg
DSC00092 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52091926256_1109be450c_k.jpg
DSC00145 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52090896942_0ebdb7bc7b_k.jpg
DSC00100 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52092430510_e5ad2a07f9_k.jpg
DSC00152 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52092430690_d53fecd3a2_k.jpg
DSC00153 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52091927581_2c8afdb279_k.jpg
DSC00099 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52092170419_c4f4d3a08d_k.jpg
DSC00138 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52090898472_726b206697_k.jpg
DSC00128 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52091944113_288bee88fa_k.jpg
DSC00094 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52090897942_81918c834c_k.jpg
DSC00169 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52092169499_3329efa403_k.jpg
DSC00157 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52092169919_7eaed8f8e0_k.jpg
DSC00171 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52092170159_aaa062142e_k.jpg
DSC00174 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

52091945018_58c4d737bf_k.jpg
DSC00167 by Jacob Kelly, on Flickr

Cheers for looking! :thumb
 

HughieD

28DL Regular User
Regular User
Nice report. That's well decent. Been past it but didn't have time to pop in sadly...
 

bobdobelina

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
It'll get wrecked soon. The Liverpool Echo have done their usual trick of posting urbex photos of it, letting everyone know it's open.
 

Liverpool Urbex

28DL Full Member
28DL Full Member
It'll get wrecked soon. The Liverpool Echo have done their usual trick of posting urbex photos of it, letting everyone know it's open.
Visited again yesterday, not much more vandalism but more natural decay. Still, unbelievably wide open and easier than the ABC to access.
 

Who has read this thread (Total: 273) View details

Top