Narracott Hotel,48 Lime Street ,Liverpool

[wayne69]

My ggg-grandfather was the proprietor of the Narracott Hotel in Lime Street from the early 1860s to the mid 1890s.I've managed to find several photos of Lime St prior to the building of the ABC Forum cinema but it's really difficult to pinpoint exactly where this temperance hotel was.Does anyone know where I can find more about this hotel and the people who were involved in its running.
Thanks a lot
Wayne

[MaryA]

To save any duplication of research, I will give the links to your posts on another forum about the same subject.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 783.0.html
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 612.0.html

and of course have you contacted this member who appears to be searching for the same people and places?
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... 843.0.html

[dickiesam]

If memory [1940s +] serves me right there was a temperance hotel almost opposite the old entrance to Lime Street Station. The last census gives #48 in a longish block of pubs, hotels and small businesses on the opposite side of Lime Street to the station. The block ran from the corner of Elliot Street towards St George's Place and St George's Hall. It's quite a while since I was there but I think that block vanished when St John's Market was developed. Isn't there a Holiday Inn there now?

OMW! Just looked via Streetview on Google Earth. What is that peculiar purple and orange plasticky thing that runs almost the full length of where that block was?

[MaryA]

Ooooh I don't think that's there now, don't know how long ago that was, but now there is a huge tv style advert, very distracting when you are driving past.

[Blue70]

Was this hotel one of those pictured on the link below at St. George's Place/Lime Street?

http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/tag/lime-street/


Blue

[dickiesam]

Hi Blue,
Memory says it was to the left of the hotel with the big clock as you look at the picture. I used to walk past it on my way to and from Central Station. In 1955 I worked part way up Lord Edward St at the Automatic Telephone factory up the side of the station. I think it was the building with Mann's on it and lots of small shops at street level. http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/lime-street-1965/

You need RealPlayer, which I don't have, top watch this. It's from 1897 and may have a sight of the hotel.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/liverpool/localhis ... tory.shtml

[colette]

Hi this is the best i can from my Edwardian Directory & map book c 1905 and my pub book.



It seemed to be a small hotel in 1894 no 48A wedged between Rosenberg Picture Frame Makers he had two shops, then there was another Temperence Hotel. In my Edwardian directory there is a Temperence Hotel listed at 48, so maybe both hotels merged into one as Rosenberg is only listed at no 46.

[colette]

This is Lime Street where I believe the hotel was just before Eliiot Street.. this image if from the Yo Liverpool web site.

[dickiesam]

Hi Col,
You have definitely pinpointed the location of the Narracott Hotel. My memory was wrong! While there were a lot of hotels in that block between Elliot Street and St George's Place, the Narracott was not one of them.

In your book photo it is listed in the block between Elliot Street and Ranelagh Street. Probably almost opposite where the Irish-American Bar is. That block and local area had been well and truly developed after 1945 following the devastation by Hitler's Luftwaffe, from that section of Lime Street across Back Lime Street to Great Charlotte Street. I remember Blacklers to the rear was just a large hole in the ground, and Lewis's was almost as bad.

Well found Col.

EDITED TO ADD: #62 is quite clear in your latest photo. Counting doors looks like just down from City Caterers.
Also, just found that the Forum cinema, on the corner of Elliot Street and Lime Street, was opened in 1931. Maybe that's when the old shops etc were originally demolished, not by Hitler, because the building extends a long way down that part of Lime Street.