Gardens · North Wales
Florence Institute
Florence Institute — a garden in wales-north, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Florence Institute is a garden of interest in wales-north, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
The Florence Institute for Boys, known colloquially as The Florrie, is a local landmark and a Grade II listed building on Mill Street in the Dingle, Liverpool, England (grid reference SJ356878).
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Background
History
Probably designed by H W Keef, it was built in 1889 by Sir Bernard Hall, a West Indies merchant, Alderman and former Mayor of Liverpool. His daughter Florence died while in Paris at the age of 22 and he built this boys' club For a hundred years the 'Florrie' served the working and unemployed youth of the tough dock-side area. On the weekends dances were provided. Towards the end of the 1980s, at the depths of the economic slump for Liverpool the funding dried up for the Institute and in 1987 it was sold and its management, The Florence Institute Incorporated Company, was dissolved in 1988 with the intention that the charitable work should be continued by another body. Unfortunately this…
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- Coordinates
- 53.3836, -2.9688
- Established
- 1890
Sources
- wikidata: Q5460651 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Florence Institute (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Florence Institute?
- Florence Institute is in North Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.3836°, -2.9688°.
- When was Florence Institute built?
- Florence Institute dates to 1890.