View of
the Royal Liver Building Liverpool from the top of the Crowne Plaza
Liverpool Hotel.
The foundation stone for the Royal Liver Building was laid in 1908 and
the building opened three years later. It was constructed using a revolutionary
technique where a ferro-concrete frame using a network of columns and
steel beams carried the weight of the outer and inner walls and the floors.
The outer walls are thin panels of concrete dressed in granite. The clock
faces are famous - 25 feet in diameter (2.5 feet larger than Big Ben)
and when installed in 1911 was the largest electrically driven clock
in the UK, accurate to 30 seconds in the year. The Royal Liver Building
is still the headquarters for Royal Liver Assurance.
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