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    Hi all
    I have passed this house many times in Grafton Street, L8. It's number 313, and I just wonder if anyone knows anything about it?



    It is so out of place on that street!
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    Help identifying this building and its original use:

    Weird but wonderful rear end of a building around Clarence Street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MissInformed View Post
    Hi all
    I have passed this house many times in Grafton Street, L8. It's number 313, and I just wonder if anyone knows anything about it?

    It is so out of place on that street!
    It would have been the office block for whatever business was carried on behind it.

    For instance, here's Grafton Street in 1936.
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    hiya philip

    Thanks for that.
    I always thought the house had something to do with maybe the church, i.e a priests house, just because of the architecture and the way it looks.

    i wonder if the people who live in the house know....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kev View Post
    Help identifying this building and its original use:

    Weird but wonderful rear end of a building around Clarence Street.

    I was round there today, and was trying to figure out the address when somebody came out of the building next door.
    This building is 91 Mount Pleasant (the man came out of 89).
    Both 89 & 91 are the Aachen Hotel.
    91 has that great (cast-iron?) window.

    Apart from saying they were originally built as houses (c1800), I don't know much else, but if they were windows at the very top it may have been something like an artist's studio.

    Checking street directories would provide more clues.
    For instance, in 1936 the building was listed as "Thomas Evans, apartments".
    83, 85, 87 & 89 were all "Temperance Hotels".
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    Hi Philip
    Were you taking pics on Rodney street today?

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    Quote Originally Posted by MissInformed View Post
    Hi Philip
    Were you taking pics on Rodney street today?
    Not exactly Rodney Street.
    I took one of the Phil gates.
    I was mostly in Hope Place/Hope Street, then Mount Pleasant.

    Spookily enough, somebody walked past me, & the thought flashed through my mind that it might be Carrie?
    And to think it probably was?
    I've no idea what you look like!
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    spooky indeed!
    I was in the car when I saw someone taking pics of some engravings above a door in Rodney street...and when I saw you had been around there today...

    My pic is in the gallery on this site...for my sins!

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    Quote Originally Posted by MissInformed View Post
    spooky indeed!
    I was in the car when I saw someone taking pics of some engravings above a door in Rodney street...and when I saw you had been around there today...

    My pic is in the gallery on this site...for my sins!
    In that case, that wasn't me.
    23 Hope Street has a lovely stained glass fanlight, but I think I had the camera set wrong, so wasn't too happy with the result.
    Here it is, anyway.
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    did you have a beige jacket on?

    i saw someone taking pictures and joked to carrie that it might be you!


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    Since this appears to be the "identify this building, please" thread I'm curious about the large building to the center right in this photo. What was it? Is it still there? I think this Guinness warehouse here may be the same as the warehouse from one of bunf's photos in a previous post.


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    Quote Originally Posted by bunf View Post
    did you have a beige jacket on?

    i saw someone taking pictures and joked to carrie that it might be you!

    I had a grey jacket & black trousers on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    I had a grey jacket & black trousers on.
    ah ha!!


    we may well have spotted you sir!

    you could have jumped in with us!


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    Quote Originally Posted by nancy o. View Post
    Since this appears to be the "identify this building, please" thread I'm curious about the large building to the center right in this photo. What was it? Is it still there? I think this Guinness warehouse here may be the same as the warehouse from one of bunf's photos in a previous post.


    hi nancy

    i dont think its the same building that i was looking at before

    i think you may have been on st james st or jamaica st.

    i dont know if its still there im afraid

    http://www.toxteth.net/maps/liverpool/lpool1a.htm

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    Quote Originally Posted by bunf View Post
    hi nancy

    i dont think its the same building that i was looking at before

    i think you may have been on st james st or jamaica st.

    i dont know if its still there im afraid

    http://www.toxteth.net/maps/liverpool/lpool1a.htm
    I think it's Jamaica Street going away from town, but I'm confused by the sign to "Docks 1-10".
    I'm not really up on docks, but I thought all the south docks had been closed by the 1980s.
    Anyway, if it is Jamaica Street, I think that building is what remained of the African Oil Mills.
    As Bunf says, it's not the Guinness building that was in his photo (Essex House - the one opposite the Swedish Church).

    Whether it's still there, I couldn't say.
    It's about time I went round that area again.

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