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6 August 2013

St George's Hall

Liverpool

The stunning Minton Tiles floor lies hidden under a protective wooden floor for 11 months of the year to allow the hall to be used for events. This year the annual floor reveal will be on from Saturday 3rd August to Sunday 18th August.

The floor was covered over in 1886 and only relatively recently has the floor been on show as an annual event. The result is a near perfect floor giving us an idea of how the Great Hall must have looked over 100 years ago. It consists of upwards of 30,000 tiles designed in the main by Robert Cockerell. The encaustic tiles manufactured by Minton, Hollins and Co of Stoke-on-Trent. The design of the floor consists of three large circles surrounded by smaller circles containing the Royal coat of arms, Star of the St George, the Rose, the Thistle and Shamrock surrounded by classical ornamentation and symbolic maritime figures.
The organ was the largest organ in the country until a larger one was built at the Royal Albert Hall in 1871, after which an organ even larger than the one in the Royal Albert Hall was constructed in Liverpool's Anglican Cathedral, using over 10,000 pipes. The St George's Hall organ is currently the 3rd largest in the UK.

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