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Angel Vaults Heads |
artist unknown
mid-19th century |
Mid-19th century pub, the Angel Vaults. It is already for a long time closed down. Angel Vaults was one of the almost 350 pubs of Robert Cain & Sons Ltd, brewery in Stanhope Street. Above the windows is a shield with the monogram RC between grapes. Publican from c. 1841 to c. 1871 was William Fields, a mariner from Gloucester, VA.
Who the persons are was asked at least twice on the internet:
On the YO! Liverpool forum in 2007 petromax asked:
The closed pub at the corner of Caryl and Stanhope Streets has a number of carved plaster faces. Clearly Victoria and Albert (twice) maybe a Nelson or a Wellington. Does anyone know the rest?No reactions…
In 2017, to his photos of the Angel Vaults plaster heads on Flickr, Brigster wrote:
The facade of an old pub in Caryl Street, most recently called The Angel Vaults. It's not a listed building and looks under imminent threat with all the building going on around it. Looking at it today I was amazed to see the plaster heads between the facade pilasters are all individually crafted. Queen Victoria is the worst one but the others look like good likenesses… of who though? It would be a shame to lose them to a bulldozer. (Usually 12 = disciples but I'd say they are all Victorian worthies of some kind. Brewery Directors?)
On closer inspection I believe two of these are repeated, making ten different faces (plus Victoria). Perhaps they were from factory moulds after all. If not, why the repetitions and two of them look like representations of gods while the other eight look like ordinary blokes… including Max Wall and Roy Hodgson.
 S1. (= C1) |
 S2. (=C4) |
 S3. Prince Albert (= C5) |
 S4. Queen Victoria. |
 S5. Duke of Wellington? (= C6). |
 S6. (=C2) |
 S7. |
 C1. (= S7) |
 C2. (= S6) |
 C3. |
 C4. (=S2) |
 C5. Prince Albert (= S3) |
 C6. Duke of Wellington? (= S2) |
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