Blackies Building, Regent Road, Liverpool

[SByrne]

Hi everyone,

On a recent census I came across, the building listed was known as 'Blackies Building', Regent Road, Liverpool. Does anyone here know what that building was exactly, or where about on Regent Road it would have been?

Thanks so much,

Simon

[stanmapstone]

According to newspaper reports it is Blackie's Buildings, Regent Road.

Stan

[ScouseBoy]

Which year are you interested in?    Was it a residential address?

[SByrne]

The year I know that my ancestors were living there was 1881 and it was indeed a residential address.

[stanmapstone]

Blackies Buildings start at RG11 Piece 3603 Folio 132 page 4
It was very common for properties to be called "*****'s" Buildings, there are numerous examples in the censuses. They were just ordinary houses, and were usually multi-occupancy.

Stan

[ScouseBoy]

The year I know that my ancestors were living there was 1881 and it was indeed a residential address.

What was the occupation of your ancestor,  and what was their place of birth.

[stanmapstone]

You can see Blackie's Buildings on this map https://www.old-maps.co.uk/#/Map/333668/392455/13/100871 you will have to zoom out. They were opposite Bramley Moor Dock.
See also http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=16&lat=53.4254&lon=-2.9987&layers=171&right=BingHyb
Stan

[SByrne]

Thank you so much, that would be it! So somewhere around the Bramley Moore Pub then.

My ancestor was an Irish immigrant who worked as a longshoreman at the docks as I imagine many others in the area were.

And thanks Stan, kind of like a tenement building then?

[ShaunJ]

Possible photo here ..in the background, to the left of the windmill http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/liverpools-oldest-photographs/brunswick-dock/

"Every detail, from the dock master’s office next to the swing bridge to the curved wall of the shed on the other side, matches the 1864 Ordnance Survey map – the windmill was the North Shore or New Townsend Mill on Regent Road, with Blackie’s Buildings (a tenement block)to its left."