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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.
