The Arcade at 81-89 Lord Street was designed by the Liverpool born architect Walter Aubrey Thomas and built in 1901. Shops sited there included 'R & J Blacker' a hatter and collar specialist and 'Herbert Wolf', a jeweller and diamond mounter, had his first shop here at No.87. A story in the Echo of the 27th of December 1915 reports a lady lost a 'small parcel containing 4 gold brooches' on leaving the shop. There was also 'B. Dobell & Co Ltd' coal merchants and 'Gaze's Tours' offering 'Tours & excursions by land & sea to all parts of the world'.
Lord Street suffered badly during the war, but the brown and white striped building, the Lord Street Arcade, was one of the better buildings that survived. Constructed in 1901 to the design of W. Aubrey Thomas, who is perhaps better known for the Liver Building and also State Insurance Building in Dale Street and Tower building at the corner of Water Street and The Strand, the Arcade originally built as a galleried arcade, was built in the Gothic style that was already falling out of favour, The building has had many and varied tenants over the years and from 1937 these have included British Home Stores at No.81 to No.85 before finally moving to new premises next door in 1959 and from 1902 – 1912 the famous Blacklers store occupied No.81. A story from the 27th of December 1918 describes a 'daughter of a Hanoverian lady' remanded for stealing 'a bottle of cocaine' from a dental surgery. For many years it was also known as 'The Penny in The Pound Building' with the Merseyside Hospitals Council being tenants from at least 1936 through to the 1970s.
In 1986 plans were drawn up to save the Lord Street Arcade but unfortunately these fell by the wayside.
see also:- http://www.thefootballvoice.com/2021/11/remembering-liverpool-structures_17.html
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