Blackies Building, Regent Road, Liverpool

[Beeonthebay]

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

  Actually, it was a row of shops with houses built over and behind.
It must have been a thriving part of town in those days.  Very prosperous shops.

Very interesting thread and that fire map is fantastic!!

Scouseboy would prosperous shops have had poor people living in slum like conditions above them?  I'm very curious now.

[Beeonthebay]

1853

[ScouseBoy]

1853

   What was the name and location of the property which was For Sale?   please.

[ShaunJ]

What was the name and location of the property which was For Sale?   please.

It was "in one of the most flourishing Irish seaports"

[Beeonthebay]

1853

   What was the name and location of the property which was For Sale?   please.

I have no idea!

It was the only reference other than the murder I could find.

[ScouseBoy]

Beeonthebay,

What evidence is there that the residents were living in unsatisfactory conditions around the time of the 1881 Census?

[Beeonthebay]

I have none and admittedly my own ancestry in the Scotland Ward was earlier than 1881, so I'd assumed it hadn't changed all that much in the following years.

Looking at the very large working class population and dare I say Irish, I had once again assumed.....

[ScouseBoy]

Some of my ancestors had emigrated from Ireland in the 1870s,   and I think they were from a well off family.

[Blue70]

I've tried to find out more about the residential properties at Blackie's Buildings on another forum but no one appears to have any knowledge of them.


Blue