I’ve blogged previously about Liverpool’s rather brilliant architect Alfred Waterhouse – here’s a link back to one of my previous postings:-
If you’ve read my previous posting you’ll realise that I mention him being from the Liverpool district of Aigburth but that seems to be wrong as he was actually born in Everton. The background note about him below, which I was given on a Heritage Open Day tour of the Waterhouse buildings of Liverpool University last week, is very informative:-
Daughter Jen and I enjoyed, with around a dozen other folks, a 2-hour tour of the University’s Waterhouse buildings, and here’s a few photos I took during the tour – but firstly a map:-

The Infirmary was laid out mainly with ‘Nightingale wards’ i.e. large rectangular wards with big windows but because of site/land ownership issues Waterhouse designed a couple of circular wards too. This is a view of one of them.
I would highly recommend a Heritage Open Day Tour of Liverpool University’s Waterhouse buildings. We really enjoyed our visit, the tour guides are very knowledgeable and the buildings are quite wonderful to see.
Note – Please click on the information sheets (& photos) to enlarge them for reading
The last photo is amongst my Flickr photos at:-