
Images of Liverpool Collegiate School set to the school song, Paean Esmedunensis (lyrics and translation below). The school was housed in a grand red sandstone Grade II listed building in Shaw Street. The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the school was opened in 1843 by Sir William Gladstone. In 1973 the school switched from a grammar school to a comprehensive and years of neglect by the council followed. It's future looked bleak when fate intervened and settled the matter. A fire in 1985 ripped through the school hall destroying the school organ and taking down the roof. The school limped on for a couple of years finally closing its doors to all but vandals, looters and arsonists, in 1987. Left to rot it became an embarrassment and an eye-sore until in 1998 Urban Splash got the go-ahead to convert the school into luxury apartments. All that is left of the original building today is the facade and the hall which has been converted into a walled garden. I attended the school from 1976 through to 1983. Paean Esmedunensis Vivat haec sodalitas, Decus Esmedunae, Nulli usquam posthabenda, Semper in caelum tollenda, Magnae virum cunae. Stimulat ingenium Nos et virtus urget, Nec ignota sunt maiorum, Facta, nec aetas minorum, Segnior exsurget. Nunc patronos memori Corde celebremus: Nos auxerunt largitate, Ampliarunt dignitate, Nis honorem demus. Esmedunian Hymn Long live this fellowship, The Order of Esmedune, Second to none on earth, Always raised up to the skies, A mighty <b>...</b>
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