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Queens Park West
Lodge
Adjacent to the Clock Tower are two
stone and timber lodges, built between 1887 - 1888 by John Brooke;
not quite a pair, as the design of the West Lodge incorporates a
Bell Tower. An inscribed bressummer at the first floor level of the
West Lodge commemorates the opening of Victoria Avenue by the
Commander-in-Chief H.R.H. The Duke of Cambridge.
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Look on the lodge for the spider,
its web and a tree and a spider, design puns on Francis William
Webb. The inscription at first floor level of the East Lodge
commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th Anniversary
of the opening of the Grand Railway Junction. You will notice a
painting of a bat, moon and tree, in yellow and green - another
pun, this time on Sir Richard Moon, Bart., Chairman of the LNWR
Company. The red sandstone used for both lodges came from the
railway cuttings that take the line to Lime Street Station,
Liverpool. Both lodges are Grade II listed buildings of special
architectural and historic interest.
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