Liverpool College of Art

[1] From 1883 it was located at 68 Hope Street, Liverpool, England, in a building designed by Thomas Cook,[2] which is now Grade II listed.

[6] William Willink stepped down from his role as Director of Technical Instruction at the school to carry out the commission.

[11] In 1975, Clive Langer, Steve Allen, Tim Whittaker, Sam Davis, Steve Lindsey, John Wood and Roy Holt (a mix of Fine Art students and tutors at the college) founded seminal 'art rock' band Deaf School and went on to sign a record deal with Warner Bros Records US after being 'discovered' by former Beatles publicist and head of Warner Bros UK at the time Derek Taylor.

[citation needed] Deaf School are acknowledged as catalysts of the post-Beatles musical revival in the city.

[citation needed] Staff at the Liverpool College of Art in the late 1950s (at the time of John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe) included Walter Norman, Julia Carter Preston, Arthur Ballard,[12] Charles Burton,[13] Nicholas Horsfield, George Mayer-Marton, E. S. S. English, Alfred K. Wiffen, Austin Davies, Philip Hartas, and the college's then-principal W. L.