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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Lee Grimsditch

Lost Liverpool city centre meeting spot where Paul O'Grady ate lunch every day

A now demolished building on the corner on a central Liverpool street was for years one of the most popular meeting places in the city.

The Radio Rentals building, also known as Cousins Corner, on Lord Street was demolished in the to make way for the building of Liverpool ONE. It's likely you'll now recognise the corner as the site of the colourful Costa Coffee opposite Debenhams.

Cousins was a local confectioner employing nearly 3,000 people on Merseyside whose founder, Ernest Gibson, died aged 95 in 2010. The confectioner opened his first bakery shop in Aigburth Road in the 1940s, where the baking was done above the store.

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