Liverpool Geology of the building stones by mila mateeva https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones Geology of the building stones Made without a hammer en-us 2020-12-16 15:10:43 UTC 2023-10-14 14:14:57 UTC hello@padlet.com Next to the statue, in front of the right back door of St Georges Hall Rhizocorallium - a horizontal U-shaped feeding burrows. It is made from a shrimp-like creatures in the sea floor, then the burrow is filled with sediments. It is a trace made by once an animal, as it is only a trace it is called trace fossil. mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024270799 For more info, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18

]]> 2020-12-16 15:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024270799 Columns around fountain mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024311705 nodular limestone with solitary coral
age:  Carbonifereous ( ~350 Million years old)
origin: North Wales
For more information, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18

]]> 2020-12-16 15:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024311705 5th bollard on the left of the steps of Steble Fountain, William Brown St, Liverpool L3 8EL, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024328407    
Colonial corals 

 Brachiopods. They have two shells (valves) 
For more information, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18

]]> 2020-12-16 15:26:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024328407 Street in front of the Walker museum mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024629257 photo: LSG                   
 in the cobbles and kerbstones there are lighter and darker coloured rocks. The lighter colour ones are the granite and the darker one are basalt
For more information, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18

]]> 2020-12-16 16:29:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024629257 Williamson Tunnels Heritage Centre, Edge Hill, Liverpool L7 3GA, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024659552 Williamson 'tunnels':
Permo-Triassic sandstone
depth: >18m below ground level
what you can see:  stratigraphy 
twitter account:  @FoWT

]]> 2020-12-16 16:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024659552 World museum, Liverpool UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024820030
Floor on the  forecourt, entrance hall and atrium:   slabs of rock formed by violently explosive volcanic eruptions. 
 origin: Elterwater region of the Lake District
 For more information, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18

]]> 2020-12-16 17:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024820030 William Brown St, Liverpool L1 1JJ, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024900944 photo: LGS 
trace fossil Arenicolites is a vertical U-shaped living burrow pro- duced by filter feeding, ragworm- like animals
For more info, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18]]> 2020-12-16 17:25:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1024900944 Wellington’s Column mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1025022213
Foundations : Runcorn sandstone
Pedestal : granite 
  made  mainly of crystals of white feldspar, quartz and biotite. Xenolines (inclusions of the surrounding rock) could also be observed
column :  Darley Dale sandstone
on each side of the column base: bronze plaque 
statue on the column:  bronze. Legend says is a bronze melted from the guns captured at Waterloo.

inaugurated: 1863

For more info, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and why not do some of their geological accessible trials: 
 https://liverpoolgeologicalsociety.org/rock-around]]> 2020-12-16 17:51:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1025022213 Steps leading to the Steps on Wellington’s Column mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1025047674
Primary current lineation formed from fast flowing water. 

For more information, please visit the Liverpool geological society (LGS) and their geological accessible trail for William Brown street bit.ly/3rWgD18


]]> 2020-12-16 17:56:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1025047674 Cathedral, Liverpool L1 7AZ, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075814513 Red sandstone from the local sandstone quarried from the South Liverpool suburb of Woolton 

The last section built 1960s and 1970s sandstone from other NW quarries as the supply from Woolton had been exhausted

]]> 2021-01-11 19:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075814513 Albion House, 30 James St, Liverpool L2 0NJ, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075839600 white portland stone and red brick ]]> 2021-01-11 19:20:50 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075839600 St George's Hall Liverpool, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075848243 Darleydale stone from Yorkshire ]]> 2021-01-11 19:22:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075848243 Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head, Liverpool Waterfront, Mann Island, Liverpool L3 1DG, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075865918 Jura limestone (italie) 
 Jura Beige limestone: exterior cladding. ]]> 2021-01-11 19:25:59 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075865918 Martins Bldg, 4 Water St, Liverpool L2 3SP, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075886219 Former Martins bank 
 stone: marble
build 1927-32 
architect: Herbert j Rowse

]]> 2021-01-11 19:29:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075886219 Chadwick building Liverpool, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075915193 White wall with fossils
 limestone
fossils: crinoids]]> 2021-01-11 19:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1075915193 Walker Art Gallery's sculpture collection between: 18th century and WW1 mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085146417 sculpture mostly from Marble 
sculpture from bronze also]]> 2021-01-13 21:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085146417 Victoria building, Ashton St, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085156580 Tate Hall museum, 2nd floor
Fossils (trilobites, trace fossils) 
  ]]> 2021-01-13 21:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085156580 Victoria Building, 150 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085232762  red pressed brick " Ruabon Bricks" and common bricks: made from clays: slate roof 

with faience of terracotta inside]]> 2021-01-13 22:31:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085232762 St.Luke's Bombed Out Church , Liverpool L1 9DN, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085246453 sandstone - ashlar (term in massonery, defines the finest stone) sandstone]]> 2021-01-13 22:39:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085246453 Warker Art Gallery Liverpool, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085252985 2021-01-13 22:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085252985 Metropolitan Cathedral, 150 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085254824 Portland stone  cladding 
 Portland Stone Formation :  limestone  age: Tithonian age
info: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=POST

]]> 2021-01-13 22:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085254824 The Old Dock, Liverpool, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085327256 Sandstone bedrock

Can be seen only during guided tours]]> 2021-01-13 23:36:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085327256 Calderstones Park, Liverpool L18 3JD, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085343569  six neolithic sanstones boulders with ancient carvings]]> 2021-01-13 23:48:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1085343569 Speke Hall, Liverpool L24 1XD, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088410507  sandstone garden gateway and red sandstone bridge ]]> 2021-01-14 17:50:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088410507 Queen Victoria Monument , Derby Square, Liverpool L2 1AB, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088453183
Portland stone + 26 bronze figures
 Portland Stone Formation:  limestone formation
age:   Tithonian ( betwen 152.1 ± 4 Ma and 145.0 ± 4 Ma Jurassic) 
origin: Dorset
The bronze groups at the first level represent agriculture, commerce, education and industry. the statue of the man in the education is made to look as Oliver Lodge, a professor of Physics at the university of Liverpool then. The figures on the top represent the Queen's virtues: peace, justice, wisdom and charity.
Till 1721 at this place was the Liverpool castle.
info: https://webapps.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?pub=POST

]]> 2021-01-14 17:59:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088453183 Hartley Quay, Liverpool L3, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088554088 Canning dock – massive sandstone blocks

Gate piers to albert dock, albert pierhead 1846 – rusticated sandstone
Albert dock warehouse opened 1846/7 – iron quayside columns to the edge of the copings; the retained walls are constructed in Hartley’s characteristic “cyclopean” granite, imported from the dock board’s own quarry in Kirkmabreck, Scotland. The albert dock warehouse – build of fiver storeys in brick with red sandstone quoins and parapets and buff sandstone sils and outer plints. On the quasyde the ground floor is recessed with cast iron Greek doric columns, except in the extension in the south west corner where they are granite.

]]> 2021-01-14 18:18:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088554088 38-28 A565, Liverpool L3 7HS, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088594691 Melly Drinking Fountain No. 3
Great Howard Street
polished red Aberdeen Granite ]]> 2021-01-14 18:26:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1088594691 Cast iron Lamp Post with entwined dolphins mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1201892657 designer: Alfred Stevens]]> 2021-02-14 21:47:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1201892657 Liver building, Liverpool, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1205036837 material: reinforced concrete framed building and granite cladding
It is the first multi-storey building in the world to use this material (reinforced granite)
This is the most iconic Liverpool building have the 2 liver birds (that look at the opposite direction) and the biggest UK clock (Liver clock or Great George)
build: 1908 - 1991

]]> 2021-02-15 22:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1205036837 West Lancashire Squadron memorial in St John's Garden mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1217439360  Welsh slate 
built: 2019]]> 2021-02-19 00:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1217439360 Cunard Bldg, Water St, Liverpool L3 1ES, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1221183336 Reinforced concrete structure with Portland stone as exteriors
Decorative exterior where each shields, animals and flags have their meaning.
The great eagles on the corner of the top floor are carved from a stone weigting 43 tones. 
Interior - mostly marble. Columns in entrance hall from Pentelicon marble; concrete piers with exterior marble from Arni Alto quarries and screens from Cresola marble]]> 2021-02-20 09:53:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1221183336 Memorial to Heroes of the Marine Engine Room or Engineers' Memorial known as the Titanic memorial mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1246682849 Granite obelisk
First intended as a memorial for the engineers from Titanic, but was dedicated to all engineers " to all heroes of the engineroom who were lost at sea"]]> 2021-02-26 19:08:55 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1246682849 The Blackie, 1 Great George St, Liverpool L1 5EW, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1247818375 cnstructed in stone. big flutted Corinthian columns 
grand semi-circular portico is a monolith. Iron balusters on the stairs on the double staircase inside, and iron railings outside. 
original function: Chapel that could contain  almost 2000 people
original name: The Great George Street Congregational Chapel was build to replace a  chapel in that same place, destroyed by fire in 1840.
designer: Joseph Franklin
last service (to when it was a chapel): 1967


]]> 2021-02-27 08:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1247818375 Philharmonic Dining Pub, Liverpool L1 9JG, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1247829494 Iron and bronze gates 
men's toilet: marble 
Internal deorations by Charles Allen includes plasterworks, mahogamy panels, copper friezes, mosaic floors and glazed tiles.
Listed building Grade II*  - Britain's most ornamented pub, a finest example of late Victorian gin palace
build by: Walter Thomas and School of Art craftsmen

]]> 2021-02-27 08:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1247829494 Metropolitan Cathedral, Liverpool L3 5TQ, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1247837637 circular concrete church with Portland stone cladding
architect: Sir Frederick Gibberd
build onlyfor 5 years from 1962 to 1967

info: https://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/1276]]> 2021-02-27 08:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1247837637 1 Bold St, Liverpool L1, UK mateevamilaliv https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1621363944 cross bedded Triassic Helsby Sandstone

image and source: Peter Burgess]]> 2021-06-23 08:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mateevamilaliv/Liverpool_building_stones/wish/1621363944