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Peter Ellis, 1864. 4 storeys with basement, 7 bays, and 12 bays to Covent Garden. Cast iron frame with stone cladding. Shafts rise from ground floor and end in pinnacles projecting above parapet. Tall openings with nailhead moulding and shafts contain 3 canted oriels with stone bases and iron glazed windows tripartite windows with canted heads above. 5th bay has entrance with stone plaque and octagonal window above. Label-moulded parapet and 3-bay central shaped gable with Jacobean finial. Gable contains date panel, octagonal window and arms above Covent Garden façade similarly treated.

A pioneering building in the use of expressed cast iron construction, which has since become a defining feature of skyscrapers across the world.

William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Old Vic, The Cut, London SE1 August 1979.

Derek Jacobi (now Sir Derek Jacobi) as Hamlet, Prince of Denmark and Jane Wymark as Ophelia.

Directed by Toby Robertson who was christened Sholto, but became known as 'Toby' (he claimed, as a result of reciting "To be, or not to be" from an early age). Robertson died 4 July 2013, aged 83.

Julian Wyatt Glover CBE (Claudius) is an English classical actor with many stage, television and film roles since commencing his career in the 1950s. He attended Bristol Grammar School, where he was in the same class as future actors Timothy West and David Prowse (d. 28 November 2020). He is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Julian Glover has also appeared frequently on television including guest appearances in series such as The Avengers, The Saint, Thriller, Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and Remington Steele. He played the recurring supporting role of Grand Maester Pycelle in HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2016) and appeared as General Beauvilliers in the BBC drama Spies of Warsaw (2013). He is married to Isla Blair.

Brenda Bruce OBE (Gertrude) (7 July 1919-19 February 1996) was an English actress. She had a long and successful career in the theatre, radio, film and television, and was a long-time actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Sir Derek George Jacobi CBE (Hamlet) is an English actor and stage director. Jacobi has enjoyed a successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He has twice been awarded a Laurence Olivier Award, first for his performance of the eponymous hero in Cyrano de Bergerac in 1983 and the second for his Malvolio in Twelfth Night in 2009. He also received a Tony Award for his performance in Much Ado About Nothing in 1984 and a Primetime Emmy Award in 1988 for The Tenth Man. His stage work includes playing Octavius Caesar, Edward II, Richard III and Thomas Becket. In addition to being a founder member of the Royal National Theatre and winning several prestigious theatre awards, Jacobi has also enjoyed a successful television career, starring in the critically praised adaptation of Robert Graves's I, Claudius (1976), for which he won a BAFTA; in the titular role in the medieval drama series Cadfael (1994-1998), as Stanley Baldwin in The Gathering Storm (2002), as Stuart Bixby in the ITV comedy Vicious (2013-2016) and as Alan Buttershaw in Last Tango in Halifax (2012). Jacobi also portrayed a version of the Master in Doctor Who. He later reprised the role for several Doctor Who audio dramas for Big Finish Productions. In 2019, he played Edward VIII, the Duke of Windsor, in the third season of the Netflix series The Crown. He was knighted in 1994 and has also been made a member of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.

Jane Wymark is an English actress. She is best known for playing Morwenna Chynoweth Whitworth (Morwenna Carne by the close of the series) in the 1977 BBC television period drama Poldark, and more recently as Joyce Barnaby (1997-2011) in the ITV detective series Midsomer Murders. She has appeared in television dramas such as The Bass Player and the Blonde, A Touch of Frost, Dangerfield, Lovejoy and Pie in the Sky. She also appeared as Jill Mason in the Birmingham Rep production of Equus.

Fremlins Brewery, Maidstone (P)
UY 9878 Sentinel DG4 (8413) Tractor + drawbar trailer 3/31
built as a DG6 side-tipping wagon for Oldbury Gas Works, converted by Sentinel to a tractor on pneumatic tyres in 1934;
Last V5C 24/11/10, on SORN 5/18 and 5/20
Canterbury Road, Sittingbourne 6/74

Apart from the garage glimpsed on the right all these nine buildings have been demolished.
I always liked this stretch of Park Road with its better than average Victorian shops next door to the Liverpool Savings Bank (one of the oldest banks in Liverpool away from the city centre), and it came as no surprise to find that Joseph Sharples says the shop next door to the bank was probably designed by none other than Peter Ellis.
However, those four buildings (at least) were owned by Nile Street Builders in recent years, and had a habit of "falling down" (see below) which resulted in them all eventually being demolished - the bank as recently as 2017.
At least they got permission to demolish the (unListed) bank (the first Liverpool bank to be demolished since the 1980s).

Text by Philip G Mayer.

Oriel Chambers is the world's first building featuring a metal framed glass curtain wall. Designed by architect Peter Ellis and built in 1864, it is located on Water Street near the town hall in Liverpool, England. Due to its outstanding importance, it has been grade I listed.

Oriel Chambers seen on the right
in Water Street Liverpool City Centre. 104/365

1864
Liverpool
Architect: Peter Ellis
Photograph: ?

Oriel Chambers
14-16 Water Street.


Oriel Chambers was the first building in the world to make extensive use of glazed curtain wall construction. It was designed as an office building by local architect and engineer Peter Ellis (1805-84) for the Reverend Thomas Anderson. Anderson is commemorated on the exterior by the letters T.A. and the clan emblem of an oak tree above the motto "Stand Sure". The four-storey building has a concealed cast iron frame and glazed façades, seven of its bays front Water Street and originally 20 bays faced Covent Garden. The projecting (oriel) windows take advantage of natural light from all directions and the windows are tall with delicate cast iron framing and masonry panels. The oriels on Covent Garden are wider than those on Water Street.
During the blitz in May 1941 bombing destroyed the northern section, exposing the frame and innovative curtain wall construction. The damage was repaired in 1959-61, by James & Bywaters, who also designed an extension. Only 12 of the Covent Garden façade bays are now original. In July 1966, Oriel Chambers was designated a Grade I listed building.
Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-83) praised the building, saying it was "ahead of its time” (1936) and in 1969 calling it "one of the most remarkable buildings of its date in Europe”.