Mechanics' Institute of Liverpool
| Established | 1825 |
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| Closed | 1985 |
| Type | Grammar school |
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Liverpool Merseyside England |
| Local authority | Liverpool |
| Gender | Boys |
| Ages | 11–18 |
| Website | Liverpool Institute |
| Liverpool Institute High School for Boys | |
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LIPA
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| General information | |
| Town or city | Liverpool |
| Country | England |
| Construction started | 1825 |
Coordinates: 53°23′58.4″N 2°58′20.3″W / 53.399556°N 2.972306°W The Liverpool Institute High School for Boys was an all-boys grammar school in the English port city of Liverpool.
The school had its origins in 1825 but occupied different premises while the money was found to build a dedicated building on Mount Street. The Institute was first known as the Liverpool Mechanics' School of Arts. In 1832 the name was shortened to the Liverpool Mechanics' Institution. The facade of the listed building, the entrance hall and modified school hall remain after substantial internal reconstruction was completed in the early 1990s.
Its initial primary purpose as a Mechanics' Institute (one of many established about this time throughout the country) was to provide educational opportunities, mainly through evening classes, for working men. Lectures for the general public were also provided of wide interest covering topics ranging from Arctic exploration to Shakespeare and philosophy. Luminaries like Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope and Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered talks and readings in the main lecture hall (now the architecturally restructured Sir Paul McCartney Auditorium of LIPA).
By 1840 the Institution offered evening classes, lectures, a library and a boys' lower and upper school. By the 1850s a formal art school was evolving from the evening classes and in 1856 this diversity was recognised by another name change – The Liverpool Institute and School of Arts.
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