I'm sat in what was until a few years ago the Royal Liverpool Infirmary. A highly influential architectural design as it was the first to include Florence Nightingale's ideas on hospital design. It now houses the office I work in which was once the TB ward. While the tiles have been cleaned up as part of the restoration they are either original Victorian or modern replicas where replacements were required. The tiles are brick shaped and are roughly the dimension of a standard brick (240mm x 90mm) Working from floor to ceiling: Rounded brown tiles at floor level lead into 9 courses of brown tiles. Then there is a course of half brick sized tiles. The another 3 courses of brown tiles. A single row of lighter, half thickness yellow/brown tiles top this level with the bottom of the windows. Above this a row of square decorative tiles sits in a speckled light brown. This is topped by a second row of the lighter, half thickness tiles. Then there is a row of dark brown tiles. Above this run rows of creamy/yellow tiles for several meters. Then a row of green tiles, another row of cream/yellow tiles. These two types of tile form a pattern for four rows before we reach another cream/yellow row and finally a row of the green tiles. The chapel downstairs has some really ornate Victorian tiles. If people are interested I could bring my digital camera in next week and try to gets some pictures. Cheers Mark

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