Coordinates: 53°24′07″N 2°59′17″W / 53.402°N 2.988°W / 53.402; -2.988 Liverpool Sailors' Home, was open for business in Canning Place, Liverpool, England from December 1850 to July 1969.
The home was not only a magnificent building it also played a pivotal role in establishing Liverpool as one of the world's successful commercial seaports following the dismantling of the Slave trade.
Mermaid Railings from the home can be seen in Portmeirion in North Wales.
The gates of the Liverpool Sailors' Home, which were responsible for at least two deaths (and subsequent reported hauntings around Canning Place) were sold to Avery in Birmingham after the War and were on view at their museum located in the historic Soho Foundry until the gates return to Liverpool in 2011.
Read more about Liverpool Sailors' Home: History, Construction, The Gates, Demolition of The Sailors' Home, Sailors' Home Gates Return To Liverpool
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“As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)