July 6th 2010 - St. George's Hall at Dusk

A warm evening in Liverpool, with dusk fast approaching when I took this photograph of the side entrance to St. George's Hall; the recently extended and refurbished Empire Theatre in the background. Both buildings have been sympathetically lit to show them in all their glory, particularly the neoclassically styled Hall, which is in the William Brown Street Conservation Area and recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site. From the mid 1800's St. George's Hall was used as the city's law courts. Today, an excellent museum allows visitors a taste of what the atmosphere was like for many awaiting trial in the grim cells which still exist beneath the building, in contrast with the exquisite wood panelled law court and the majestic ballroom and chambers above.