Gambier Terrace

Gambier Terrace is a street of 19th-century houses in Liverpool, England, overlooking St James's Mount and Gardens and the cathedral. It is generally reckoned to be in Canning, although it falls within the Rodney Street conservation area, together with Hope Street and Rodney Street. It was named after James Gambier. Nos. 1 to 10 are Grade II* listed buildings, as is the northernmost house in the terrace, which has the address of Canning Street around the corner. They were probably designed by John Foster, Junior. The terrace was built in 1832–1837. It was originally planned that the entire row would be built in a single style but construction was halted in the slump of 1837, and the demand for large city houses declined as the middle class moved out to the new suburbs. No. 10 was the last of the original build. The terrace was later completed to a cheaper specification. During the First World War, No. 1 Gambier Terrace was the location of the Women's War Service Bureau which assisted soldiers and their families. The service expanded into five additional premises on Bold Street and Berry Street. In the 1950s and 1960s, Nos. 11–12 Gambier Terrace was home to the Liverpool Art High School, the junior section of the Liverpool College of Art. The students were aged 13–16 years of age who won scholarships to attend the school. Cynthia Lennon was a student there before she met John Lennon of The Beatles. In the 1960s the terrace was in poor condition. John Lennon lived at No. 3 Gambier Terrace in 1960 with former Beatles bassist Stuart Sutcliffe after Sutcliffe asked the others who lived there, including fellow student and future well-known artist Margaret Chapman if the homeless Lennon could move in. They all attended the nearby Liverpool College of Art. The large number of students and artists living there led to a reporter from The Sunday People paying a visit for a story headlined "This is the Beatnik Horror", inadvertently including the first known published photograp