Did you know that this church up on Everton Ridge is actually the great grandfather of the modern skyscraper? If you look at St George's Church from the outside, it looks like a traditional, beautiful red sandstone building. But step inside, and you are looking at a true architectural world first. Built back in 1814, it was the first church on the planet to be constructed with a cast iron frame. Local ironmaster John Cragg manufactured the inner skeleton (the slender pillars, the vaulted ceilings, and the window tracery) right down at his Tithebarn Street foundry. It was effectively a 19th century flat pack building Architectural historians, including the great Quentin Hughes, have long pointed out just how revolutionary this was. By shifting the heavy lifting away from thick, load bearing stone walls to an internal metal skeleton, this Everton church proved you could support a grand building from the inside out. It was a massive leap forward that paved the way for Liverpool's own Oriel Chambers fifty years later, and eventually, the towering steel skyscrapers of Chicago and New York. Liverpool wasn't just a busy port; it was engineering the future of city skylines. How boss is that?😀