The Cunard Building, standing proud on Liverpool’s Pier Head, opened in 1917 as the headquarters of Cunard Line, its Portland stone and Italian Renaissance style a monument to the city’s shipping glory. One of the “Three Graces” alongside the Liver and Port of Liverpool buildings, this Grade II* listed titan housed offices for transatlantic voyages until the 1960s. Now council offices and a museum, its maritime past hums with Liverpool ghost stories that echo through its grand halls.
The building thrived as Liverpool ruled the waves, its clerks booking passengers on liners like the Lusitania while dockers toiled below. A survivor of Blitz bombs and time, it’s a waterfront gem—some say with spirits still aboard. The Cunard Building fuses Liverpool’s history with a haunted tide, drawing fans of Liverpool ghost stories and maritime haunts.
One eerie tale tells of The Drowned Sailor, a 1920s crewman lost at sea, who returned to haunt the booking hall. His wet footsteps slap the marble, and a salty whiff trails—staff feel a shove near the stairs. Another story spins The Clerk’s Ledger, a worker who died of fever in 1918, mid-tally. His faint scratching drifts from the old offices, and papers flutter—visitors spot a hunched shadow. These Liverpool ghost stories cloak The Cunard Building in a spectral mist, its grandeur alive with the past.