Architects, politicians, and the desire for immortality

• father of John Foster Jnr. Senior Surveyor to the
Corporation of Liverpool succeeding Henry Berry. In
1824 he was succeeded as Senior Surveyor by his son while Jesse Hartley replaced him as dock engineer at Liverpool Dock Trustees.
• During his time as dock engineer, Foster completed only one dock (Princes Dock). He also converted
Manchester Basin to an enclosed dock (Manchester
Dock) and expanded several other docks including
George’s Dock and Queen's Dock. The warehouse at
King's Dock was built by Foster

• studied under Jeffry Wyatt in London, in 1809 travelled the eastern Mediterranean. During 1810–11 he accompanied C. R. Cockerell and the German archaeologists Haller and Linckh in their excavation of the temples at Aegina and Bassae. He returned to
Liverpool in 1816 and joined the family building firm.
He succeeded his father as senior surveyor to the
Corporation in 1824, until the Municipal Reform Act of 1834. His own designs included The Oratory, St
James Cemetery, and St. Andrew's in Rodney Street.
The second Royal Infirmary, the public baths, the domed Custom House. He is often attributed as the architect for numbers 2–10 Gambier Terrace.

• From the mid-1840s he lived at 40 Falkner Square, a house which he designed.
• designed Oriel Chambers in 1864 at the corner of
Water Street and Covent Garden in Liverpool, considered by many architectural historians to be one of the most influential buildings of its age, a precursor of the modernist style in architecture and one of the earliest attempts to break away from the classical tradition of commercial architecture.
• learned his trade working with his father on several terraces of properties in Audley Street (1824), Kent
Square (1830) and Great George Square / Upper Pitt
Street (1832).

• Designed by Ellis
• Lease bought by
Ellis in 1844
• The area was a blank canvas for architects to be creative and stamp their personality on the development.

• In 1835 Peter acquired a lease on property and neighbouring building land in Sandon Street
(originally a part of Chatham Street). One of the properties became Peter and Mary's first home, and it was whilst they were living there that Peter submitted designs for the 1839 St George's Hall competition subsequently won by Harvey Lonsdale
Elmes. In 1843 Peter acquired a lease upon which he built 78 Canning Street and in the following year he obtained a lease on neighbouring land upon which he built what became 40 Falkner Square, the house in which he and Mary lived for the remainder of Peter's life.

• Attracted praise and criticism for being modernist.

• Lived at No. 4 Canning Street
• Associate of Peter Ellis
• The 1830 warehouse, Liverpool Road, Manchester, is a 19th-century warehouse that forms part of the
Liverpool Road railway station complex. It was built in five months between April and September 1830,
"almost certainly [to the designs of] the Liverpool architect Thomas Haigh". The British Listed
Buildings survey attributes the work to George
Stephenson and his son, Robert.

• Designed by Samuel Rowland. The building work started on 29 August 1829 and was consecrated on 29
December 1830. It was built for the Rev. James Haldane
Stewart.
• It is deemed to be the best surviving Neoclassical church in Liverpool. It is temple-like in appearance and has a monumental portico of 6 unfluted Ionic columns across the west end. The east window is of stained glass in the Renaissance style and was installed c1905.
In the chancel there is a monument to Rev. Stewart who died in 1854. There is another monument to Mr
W.M. Foster, his wife and servant, who all drowned in the wreck of the steamer Rothsay Castle in 1831.

• Was originally a tailor from Kings Lynn, Norfolk
• Settled in Liverpool in 1812, became a member of a
Liverpool Masonic lodge
• Was the leader of the Liverpool Masonic Rebellion in 1823
• Became a leading engineer and cartographer, designing the famous plan of Liverpool in 1836
• Became involved in local politics, being elected as a councillor for the Abercromby Ward in the 1840s
• A campaigner against the Rivington Pike Scheme

• 11 April 1770 – 8
August 1827
• Friends with John
Gladstone
• Was PM in 1827

• In 1797, a rumoured invasion by the French led
Falkner to react quickly; within 24 hours he had mustered a fighting force of over 1000 men ready for action.
• News of this quickly assembled force reached France and the threat was withdrawn.
• Later, Falkner – a hero, invested in land around what became Falkner Square, which was completed in
1830, the central park area being acquired in 1835.
• However, the area was too far out of Liverpool, and up a considerable incline making horse and carriage difficult. It became known as ‘Falkner’s Folly’.

• British statesman, financier and MP for several constituencies, including Liverpool.
He is best known today as the world's first railway casualty.
He was run over by
George Stephenson's locomotive engine
Rocket.

• Greek revival
• John Foster Jnr
• 1836

• 29 December 1809 –
19 May 1898
• Born at 62 Rodney
Street
• PM four times
• Supported Irish home rule and electoral reform

• The house was built in 1788 for John Blackburne, at a time when this was in the countryside outside Liverpool. Blackburne originally came from Warrington. He was a wealthy salt refiner and a supporter of the slave trade. In 1760 he had been Lord Mayor of
Liverpool. In 1844 the house was bought from Blackburne by
George Holt of Sudley House. Holt was a cotton broker and merchant, and an abolitionist. He was also a supporter of women's rights, and on 5 August 1844 he opened the house as Blackburne
House Girls' School. It was the first school for girls in Liverpool, and sited directly opposite the Mechanic's Institute, a school for boys on the other side of Hope Street. Holt was the director and president of the school until he died in 1861, when the school was taken over by the Mechanic's Institute. The building was extended in 1874–76 by W. I. Mason, who added a wing to the north and a central tower. In 1905 it came under the management of Liverpool
City Council, and continued as a school until it closed in 1986.

• Constructed the mysterious
Tunnels
• 10 March 1769
– 1 May 1840

• Started in
1816, finished on his death in 1840
• Employed returning soldiers from the
Napoleonic wars