Blackies Building, Regent Road, Liverpool

[stanmapstone]

Brunswick Dock is well south of Bramley Moor Dock, see http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/sidebyside.cfm#zoom=15&lat=53.3906&lon=-2.9846&layers=171&right=BingHyb

Stan

[ShaunJ]

A respondent says that the picture is actually of Salisbury Dock "seen looking north east from the balcony round the Victoria Tower" - see http://streetsofliverpool.co.uk/liverpools-oldest-photographs/

[stanmapstone]

You can see North Shore Mill on this 1851 map http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344096#zoom=5&lat=5580&lon=3926&layers=BT it is just south of Blackie's Buildings, so that is Blackie's Buildings in the centre of the photograph.

Stan

[Blue70]

I've never heard of this address before. My first thought was that it must be a court but it doesn't look like a court on the maps. It looks like there were 30 houses or households there in the census for 1881.


Blue

[stanmapstone]

Blakie's Buildings was a row of houses on Regent Road. It was common for a row of houses on a main road to be called Buildings and given a separate name, usually  from the name of the builder, the owner or one of the occupiers.

Stan

[ScouseBoy]

I wonder whether  it was knocked down under the slum clearance scheme?   or had it already been demolished  before that date? 

[ScouseBoy]

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

    Yes, That is one theory,    but equally a lot  of commercial and office buildings  are named as "Somebodies Buildings"

Particularly in Liverpool  there are   many famous  buildings.  For example:  Liver Buildings,  Cunard Buildings, Fowlers Building,  Municipal Building.

[stanmapstone]

Its not a theory, its a fact, I agree there are also many commercial buildings called ****** Buildings, but in this case Blackie's Buildings are tenements, as proved by the census, the maps, and newspaper reports.

Stan

[ScouseBoy]

You mentioned newspaper reports earlier, Could you please give the link?