Sepia-tinted photographic postcard showing a view inside the fernery at the Wavertree Botanic Gardens in Liverpool. The original Liverpool Botanic Garden was opened by William Roscoe in 1802; in 1836 it was moved to a new site in Wavertree, designed by John Shepherd, and in 1846 the garden was bought by the Corporation. After the destruction of the glasshouse during the Second World War, a new botanic garden was created in Calderstones Park, and the Wavertree site has been maintained as a public park since