59 Rodney Street, Liverpool

59 Rodney Street, Liverpool is a Grade II listed historic building in Merseyside, cared for by the National Trust. Read about its history and architecture, plus how to visit and what's nearby.

About 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool

59 Rodney Street was the home and photographic studio of Edward Chambré Hardman, one of Liverpool's best-known portrait photographers.

The Georgian townhouse sits on a street long nicknamed the Harley Street of the North for its concentration of doctors' practices.

The National Trust has preserved the interiors largely as the Hardmans left them, with the shop, darkroom and living rooms kept as a working record of mid-twentieth-century life above a business.

It is a rare chance to see a Georgian house used exactly as it was for decades, rather than restored to an earlier period.

History of 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool

Edward Chambré Hardman and his wife Margaret lived and ran their photographic business from the house from the late 1940s until his death in 1988. The National Trust acquired the property and retained the furnishings, equipment and decor rather than redress the rooms to an earlier Georgian style. Rodney Street itself developed as a fashionable Georgian address and now forms part of a conservation area with Hope Street and Gambier Terrace.

Architecture of 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool

The building is a Georgian terraced townhouse typical of Rodney Street, one of more than sixty Grade II listed buildings along the street.

Worth knowing

Edward Chambré Hardman took some of his most admired photographs, including images of Liverpool shipping and street life, using this house as both home and darkroom.

Facilities

Parking Café Shop Accessible Restaurant Cycle parking

Plan your visit to 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool

Address: L1 9ER

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Nearest station: Liverpool Central Loop Line (0.4 miles)

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Historic places nearby

Within 5 miles of 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool (L1) there are 2 historic properties, including 2 historic buildings.

2 National Trust

2 Historic building

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Within 10 miles of 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool (L1) there are 5 historic properties, including 3 historic buildings and 2 historic houses, across National Trust and Historic Houses sites.

3 National Trust

2 Historic Houses

3 Historic building

2 Historic house

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Within 20 miles of 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool (L1) there are 23 historic properties, including 8 historic buildings, 7 historic houses and 3 castles, across Historic Houses, National Trust and Cadw sites.

7 Historic Houses

7 National Trust

5 Cadw

2 Churches Conservation Trust

2 English Heritage

8 Historic building

7 Historic house

3 Castle

2 Church

1 Archaeological site

1 Chapel

1 Abbey

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