The Tall House
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In 1875, J A Picton (1) records. "When Mr. Cuthbert Bisbrown laid out the new town of Harrington, about 1775, it was proposed to establish a direct ferry communication with the opposite shore of Cheshire.  A ferry station was made on the shore and a lofty house built for a tavern. This stood near the line of the present Sefton Street, nearly opposite the Harrington Dock, and being a conspicuous and isolated object, was long known by the name of the Tall House. The scheme of the ferry was before its time, and it soon had to be abandoned. The building was used at one time as a ladies' school, subsequently as a tavern, and was finally taken down about 1844. The ferry station has been revived within the last few years, and a landing-stage has been constructed not far from the site of the Tall House, where the steamboats for New Ferry call on their passage up and down." Robert Griffiths (2) adds that it 'appears to have been built about 1830' and he provides the illustration here. 3a

(1) J A Picton, Memorials of Liverpool, Vol 2, 1875, pp 464  (2) Robert Griffiths, 'The History of the Royal and Ancient Park of Toxteth, Liverpool'. Liverpool, James Cross, 81 Hanover St. (1907)