Unseen Liverpool

[Waterways]

Why would anyone with half a brain pull this down? What a beauty.

[PhilipG]

Why would anyone with half a brain pull this down? What a beauty.

Inspired by the Chicago School of Architecture and designed by W Aubrey Thomas who was responsible for only about a dozen buildings.
(Luckily, about two-thirds survive.)
It was completed in 1917, so was probably considered as important as the Cunard Building.
IMHO the Bibby warehouse was much better looking than the old-fashioned looking Cunard, which was another rare example of a building being allowed to be completed during the "Great War".
Other buildings like churches and cinemas had work suspended until after the war was over.

[Sirob]

Alright, I admit to being a National Dried Milk baby and I still have a tin to prove it!!!!!!

Ex Mersey Docks No 26 in a Skelmersdale playground, 1973
Ex Pilkingtons loco also in a Skem playground, 1973
Widnes Docks, Avonside "Lucy" May 1970
And working a Birkenhead Docks railtour(flares are in!!!) July 1978
Train from Paddington, Birkenhead Woodside June 1966

[chippie]

I,ve had a bit of a hint from one of the staff in Mersey House Drury Lane, that the firm are relocating to one of the refurbished offices behind the town hall.

If that is so I wonder if Mersey House will end up being new apartments like the one beside it revamped by Mr Beetham or will another large congloberate mover in there as offices.

[shoney]

Inspired by the Chicago School of Architecture and designed by W Aubrey Thomas who was responsible for only about a dozen buildings.
(Luckily, about two-thirds survive.)
It was completed in 1917, so was probably considered as important as the Cunard Building.
IMHO the Bibby warehouse was much better looking than the old-fashioned looking Cunard, which was another rare example of a building being allowed to be completed during the "Great War".
Other buildings like churches and cinemas had work suspended until after the war was over.

with all this architecture etc going on, i'm surprised he had time to write thomas the tank engine







ignore me , its late

[Waterways]

IMHO the Bibby warehouse was much better looking than the old-fashioned looking Cunard, which was another rare example of a building being allowed to be completed during the "Great War".

The Cunard Building was Italianesque in design. The Bibby warehouse would have made 100s of flats, and superb soundproofing too. I met someone who lived in the Waterloo Dock Warehouse and said he never once heard the neighbours.

[shoney]

The Cunard Building was Italianesque in design. The Bibby warehouse would have made 100s of flats, and superb soundproofing too. I met someone who lived in the Waterloo Dock Warehouse and said he never once heard the neighbours.

no disrespect but there are a few people in austria who made that claim last week, accoustics are a science that needs to be enginnered properly, i've walked into new and old buildings with terrible accoustics, anyway the building would need 100's of carparks built in the basement for it to appeal to modern tenants as most people have 1-2 vehicles these days and secure parking is a must when living in a built up urban enviroment

[Waterways]

no disrespect but there are a few people in austria who made that claim last week, accoustics are a science that needs to be enginnered properly, i've walked into new and old buildings with terrible accoustics, anyway the building would need 100's of carparks built in the basement for it to appeal to modern tenants as most people have 1-2 vehicles these days and secure parking is a must when living in a built up urban enviroment

Grand Designs Live, ch 4 tonight, is featuring new sound insulation materials. Worth watching. I doubt any sound would penetrate those floors and walls. They were super solid and sound insulation depends on mass. Car parking could have been an adjacent building, or just lots of space around the warehouse - there was lots of space.

[shoney]

Grand Designs Live, ch 4 tonight, is featuring new sound insulation materials. Worth watching. I doubt any sound would penetrate those floors and walls. They were super solid and sound insulation depends on mass. Car parking could have been an adjacent building, or just lots of space around the warehouse - there was lots of space.

can't get channel 4 where i live, sure there are some good products,

[christy]

here are some pics of the art deco post i found wouldn't it be great if it was returned to where it once stood

I hope what you are saying is true about it being at a council depot because I heard 2 different stories which are both related to each other. One being a slight misunderstanding of the truth. They are : 1. the column was broken up for hardcore when the road/entrance was remodelled and 2.that the column is buried under the road outside the entrance (this is a slight misunderstanding I think of the story that it is now broken up and buried under tha road as hardcore etc)
I pray that it is Walton but dont understand why it would still remain there.

[Ged]

Waterways, what about the fuel poverty - no cavity wall insulation - like the tennies and Canning

[mrs zappa]

I hope what you are saying is true about it being at a council depot because I heard 2 different stories which are both related to each other. One being a slight misunderstanding of the truth. They are : 1. the column was broken up for hardcore when the road/entrance was remodelled and 2.that the column is buried under the road outside the entrance (this is a slight misunderstanding I think of the story that it is now broken up and buried under tha road as hardcore etc)
I pray that it is Walton but dont understand why it would still remain there.

my cousin is frank carlyle ( local historian) and he usually gets things spot on, it was he who told me where it was now, whether its in bits or not i don't know. its still a shame it's not outside the tunnel wouldn't you agree.
debz

[Waterways]

Waterways, what about the fuel poverty - no cavity wall insulation - like the tennies and Canning

Do you mean the Bibbys warehouse? No. 1 it is a world away from the tennies in architecture. The inside of the outer walls can have a layer of high performing foam insulation against the bricks and plastered over. Then high performing windows. The people who buy the apartments in Bibbys would not be in the fuel poverty bracket.

[Sirob]

Here is the official photo of No. 26, from Port Of Liverpool News, 12/1969
Bootle Oriel Road Station in 1952
Birkenhead Woodside station(look at the size of it!) 1952
Ex L&Y 2-4-2 tank engine at Liverpool Exchange (J. Peden)
Ex L&Y Aspinall 0-6-0 tank at Sandhills(Real Photo Co. Ltd)

[Lukeo25]

loving the ones of woodside and any of birkenhead town or monks ferry by the way