tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post6113102168894153421..comments2023-06-12T03:30:46.089-04:00Comments on DRINKING OF ELDER MEN: Joe's Last Manse: Viewing RockwoodUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671297494867817437.post-60015543313134115972018-08-24T17:19:17.166-04:002018-08-24T17:19:17.166-04:00Very interesting! I stumbled across your blog whil...Very interesting! I stumbled across your blog whilst doing research about Joseph Shipley for a book I'm working on regarding Liverpool's numerous links with the USA. Sadly, Wyncote House, in Allerton, a suburb about five miles south of the city centre, where he lived for many years, was demolished (I think in the 1960s but I need to verify that) to make way for a Liverpool University sportsground – Liverpool has a terrible track record for not preserving its historical buildings!<br /><br />Shipley was the business partner of Sir William Brown who famously paid the entire cost of building Liverpool's Free Library and Museum which opened in 1860. It cost him £40,000, about £2.5 million at today's prices ($3.2m). Shipley, who had left Liverpool for Wilmington in 1851, sent £1,000 pounds to the library. This was used to purchase ‘Americana’: the star items in the collection include Audubon’s double elephant folio Birds of America*, original pencil drawings by George Catlin of Native American Indians, and original etchings by Whistler.<br /><br />Best regards<br />Ron Jones <br />Liverpool UK<br /><br /><br /><br />* A copy was sold at a Christie's auction in New York in June this year for $9.65mAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11471020900769114752noreply@blogger.com