Folly Fair

From Memorials of Liverpool....second edition, revised, with additions.

The triangular areas opposite the north end of St. George's Hall demands a passing notice. It was oribinally part of the heath, and remained in its primitive state down to the latter end of the last century. In a fine plate by Burdett of the Old Infirmary, given in Enfield's History of Liverpool (1774), it is shown as a rough foreground, with an antique wooden windmill in the centre. This mill was removed about 1780, and the ground levelled and paved. I then became the scene of the annual festivity called Folly Fair.

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