Coordinates: 53°24′36″N 2°58′48″W / 53.410°N 2.980°W / 53.410; -2.980 William Brown Street in Liverpool, England is a road that is remarkable for its concentration of public buildings. It is sometimes referred to as the "Cultural Quarter"
Originally known as Shaw's Brow, a coaching road east from the city, it is named after William Brown, a local MP and philanthropist, who in 1860 donated land in the area for the building of a library and museum. This area gives its name as the William Brown Street conservation area.
The conservation area contains:
- Lime Street Station
- St George's Hall
- William Brown Library and Museum — housing part of World Museum Liverpool and part of Liverpool Central Library
- Great North Western Hotel
- Walker Art Gallery
- Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library — part of Liverpool Central Library
- County Sessions House
- College of Technology and Museum Extension — part of World Museum Liverpool
- The Wellington Memorial
- The Steble Fountain
- St John's Gardens
- Liverpool Empire Theatre
- Entrance to Queensway Tunnel
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Lime Street Station
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St. George's Hall
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Liverpool Central Library
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World Museum Liverpool
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Great North Western Hotel
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Walker Art Gallery
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County Sessions House
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Wellington's Column
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Steble Fountain
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Liverpool Empire Theatre
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Queensway Tunnel
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“When Titian was mixing brown madder,
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—Anonymous.
“I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)