2018
Our exhibition at the Museum of Liverpool told the whole history of the School. We have preserved the exhibition with an audioguide, BSL, short films and a 360 degree tour.
2016
After a period when it was semi-derelict, the Hardman Street building was a gastropub, decorated to reflect its past as the Blind School.
1958
Hardman Street building sold to Liverpool Corporation and became Police Headquarters and later the Merseyside Trade Union Community and Unemployed Resource Centre.
1939
Both Wavertree and Hardman Street schools are evacuated to Rhyl just prior to the Blitz in Liverpool.
1932
Chapel demolished and replaced by an extension to school which housed the school shop. This relief, showing hands reading Braille, was added the extension. Others show the brushes and woven baskets produced by residents. Photo by Anna Fairley Nielsson.
1898
A children’s school building is constructed in Wavertree (where the school resides today).
1851
School displaced as a result of extension of Lime Street Station and is provided with railway owned land on Hardman Street. London Road school building is demolished but the chapel is moved piece by piece to the Hardman Street site.
1812
This drawing by T Troughton shows a further extension of the School built in 1812.
1800
School moves to nearby London Road into a purpose built school building.
1798
In the three years from 1798 ‘Egyptian opthalamia’ hospitalised whole regiments of British and French soldiers during Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign. It was the beginning of opthalmology becoming a far more respected profession. Those affected by blindness while fighting overseas were eligible for financial support from the State.