Building Eldon Street Tenements in Liverpool [Pictures from plans to completion]

**Kev** · 10-04-2008

Building Eldon Street Tenements [Pictures from plans to completion]

Courtesy of LRO.

**Kev** · 10-04-2008

Bump!

**Ged** · 10-04-2008

Over 100 photos were taken of this innovative scheme. A traction engine pulling a trailer carried the preformed slabs from Cobbs Quarry on St. Domingo road to the site. They were made using clinker from a refuse destructor and was masterminded by John Alexander Brodie.

**wsteve55** · 10-04-2008

Kev' or Ged,
any idea of the name of the pub, on the opposite corner to the "Glasshouse"?? (pic' no' 8)

**Ged** · 10-04-2008

No sorry Steve, it's not even in A pub on every corner by Freddy O'Connor.

**wsteve55** · 10-04-2008

So, the mystery continues

**quincyg** · 10-05-2008

I've got to go to the LRO sometime in next week or so. Will see if I can find out, I've made a note in my history notebook

**wsteve55** · 10-05-2008

Originally Posted by quincyg

I've got to go to the LRO sometime in next week or so. Will see if I can find out, I've made a note in my history notebook

Thanks

**Spike** · 10-05-2008

The 1906 map does not list the building as PH Public house. It is all on the map and the glass house is listed as PH. opposite over Vauxhall road is a huge Gasworks, so maybe named after these?

**wsteve55** · 10-06-2008

Originally Posted by Spike

The 1906 map does not list the building as PH Public house. It is all on the map and the glass house is listed as PH. opposite over Vauxhall road is a huge Gasworks, so maybe named after these?

All I can say is, it's definitely a pub,as there are ad's for Kensington mild, etc, on the side of the place.It's on the same side of Vauxhall as the "Glasshouse",

**quincyg** · 10-09-2008

Hi Steve
didn't have long in LRO today, but I did have a quick shufty at the 1901 Gores directory.

198 Vaughall Rd (Glasshouse) Mary O'Connor -Licenced Victualler
196 Vauxhall Rd on t'other side of Eldon St... Patrick O'Brien -shopkeeper.

sorry hun, not a pub unless it was in the 19th century? if you can give me a rough year or decade of when you think it was pub let me know and I'll have another look.

**Waterways** · 10-09-2008

When were Eldon St tenements demolished?
Any idea why they never built any more when they were half the cost to build?

Brodie did not invent concrete prefabrication, so I believe, but a US architect, Grosvenor Atterbury, took up his lead and did some good work incorporating insulation into the panels.

**wsteve55** · 10-10-2008

Originally Posted by quincyg

Hi Steve
didn't have long in LRO today, but I did have a quick shufty at the 1901 Gores directory.

198 Vaughall Rd (Glasshouse) Mary O'Connor -Licenced Victualler
196 Vauxhall Rd on t'other side of Eldon St... Patrick O'Brien -shopkeeper.

sorry hun, not a pub unless it was in the 19th century? if you can give me a rough year or decade of when you think it was pub let me know and I'll have another look.

Hi Quincy,
thanks for your time and effort,but looking at the same pic' attached,you must agree it looks like a pub,and, advertising ???bitter beers,and Kensington mild on the side? No idea of the date this was taken, but must be another year surely !?

**Ged** · 10-10-2008

Deffo looks like a pub to me too.

Here's more on the flats here, demolished in the 1960s for Our Lady's school.

PASTLIVErpool - Flats

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**Ged** · 10-10-2008

More about 'bad' prefab housing of this ilk here:

http://www.sw-norrisgreen.co.uk/decline.htm

It is known that Brodie's prefab houses were exhibited at a sort of forerunner to an ideal homes exhibtion at Letchworth.

Some more info here, Atterbury came later WW.

John Alexander Brodie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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