Originally Posted by
xkopite
Thanks to all of you who have put their two penneth in.
The 2 o/s maps are very interesting, I have the 1st one and it shows the Northumberland Buildings upto the old Farmer's Arms.
I was told how my grand mother was bombed in these buildings in the blitz and had to move out.
That would explain the missing part.
Also noted on the 1953 o/s map Gelling Hall, my mum and dad had the wedding celebrations there in 1943.
So this hall must have replaced part of the building at some time.
As a point of interest, Northumberland Building's had a nickname of Scotch Buildings.
Northumberland Buildings only goes up to the first "E" in STREET on the 1890 map.
I've found out more about it.
There's no pictures in the library, unfortunately, but Northumberland Buildings were built about 1860 as an example of "Model Lodging Houses", an early example of what would later be called "Labourers' Dwellings" or tenements.
They were built privately for rent by the Working Classes about 8 years before St Martin's Cottages in Liverpool which were the first example of Corporation Housing in Britain.
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In 1863 "The Porcupine" (a weekly Liverpool paper) had an article about such dwellings, and they weren't very impressed by Northumberland Buildings which they described as "prison-like" and too expensive.
I've taken photos of the microfilm, but parts of the page are out of focus, but you should be able to get the jist of the article.
Northumberland Buildings should not be confused with tenements that were built in Northumberland Street in 1913.
They were on the other side of Northumberland Street, and on the other side of Mill Street (and there is a photo).
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