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As part of the 125 Year anniversary celebrations the Palm House presents Liverpool’s Fashionable Suburb: the Victorian villas of Sefton Park, a talk via Zoom.
 

When Sefton Park opened in 1872, it was the largest Victorian park in Britain. Straight away, its magnificent landscape became the focus for an exclusive new suburb of grand villas, populated by rich merchants and ship owners. This talk will explore the architecture and interior decoration of these extravagant houses, and the social lives of their occupants.

 

Joseph Sharples wrote the Pevsner Architectural Guide to Liverpool (2004). He was a curator at the Walker Art Gallery from 1990 to 2001, and later worked as a researcher at the University of Liverpool, investigating the architectural patronage of Liverpool’s Victorian merchants. He curated the exhibition Merchant Palaces: Liverpool and Wirral Mansions Photographed by H. Bedford Lemere at the Lady Lever Art Gallery in 2007.  Joseph is now Curator of Mackintosh Collections at the Hunterian, University of Glasgow.

 

Fundraising event for the Palm House. 

Friends of Sefton Park Palm House please enter the promotion code you will find in your latest newsletter.  If you need confirmation of this code, or for further information about becoming a Friend of the Palm House, please email kate.martinez@palmhouse.org.uk
Many thanks for your support.

PLEASE NOTE - You will be emailed an access link the day before the event