Portico Gallery

St Georges Hall OP02751

St George's Hall, St George's Plateau, Liverpool, 1854-€55. Attributed to Thomas Sutton (1819-75), salted paper print. Cabs stand outside the newly built neoclassical St George's Hall, designed by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes and completed by Charles Robert Cockerell. The building, combining a public hall and law courts, was erected between 1841 and 1856. The photograph is attributed to Thomas Sutton because the original mount bears the name of the Frenchman Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard, who published some of Sutton's negatives in 1854. Sutton and Blanquart-Evrard opened a printing establishment on Jersey in 1855, and launched the journal Photographic Notes the following year. Sutton was a prolific writer on photography, and published A Dictionary of Photography in 1858

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Market Hall Wolverhampton, 1942 AA42_03222

Market Hall, North Street, Wolverhampton. The west portico of the Market Hall in North Street.
The Market Hall opened in 1853. By 1868 it was described as being the worst conducted market hall in England with stall holders complaining of a lack of enforcement of bye laws and a prevalence of pick-pockets. Over the subsequent years the situation improved, thanks in part to the presence of police officers, and the market went from strength to strength. It finally closed in 1960 after concerns that repairs would prove too costly. The Civic Centre now occupies the site

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Terraced houses AA071495

Looking along the front elevation of a grand terrace of houses with railings to the steps to the front doors, classical porches and ornate iron balconies. The location is probably in North London. Photographed by John Gay. Date range: January 1962 - May 1964

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Portico, Residential, Terrace, Urban, Victorian