Gardens · North Wales
Post & Echo Building
Post & Echo Building — 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
Post & Echo Building 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 Post & Echo Building, now occupied by Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe and the Meliã Liverpool Hotel, is located at 95 Old Hall Street in Liverpool city centre, England, and formerly housed the headquarters of the Liverpool Echo and Daily Post newspapers. It is also known as Metropolitan House and as City Tower. It is an international style-style building that stands 73 metres (240 ft) tall with 18 storeys, making it the joint-tenth-tallest building in the city.
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Background
History
The building, which was designed in the international style, was completed in 1974. The newspapers were produced, printed and distributed on site with the upper half of the building being used as office space and the lower parts housing the newspapers' printing rooms and distribution centre. In 2008, Trinity Mirror Publishing announced that they were ceasing printing of the papers on site and that all printing would move to a site in Oldham. The building was also used as the headquarters of Merseyside County Council from completion of the building until the abolition of the county council in 1986. The county council primarily used the building as office space for county officers and their…
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- Coordinates
- 53.4096, -2.9954
- Address
- Old Hall Street, Liverpool
- Established
- 1974
- Official site
- www.westernapproaches.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7233616 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Post & Echo Building (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Post & Echo Building?
- Post & Echo Building is in North Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 53.4096°, -2.9954°.
- When was Post & Echo Building built?
- Post & Echo Building dates to 1974.