|
The Liverpool
Warehousing Co Ltd
  On Trafford Park Road there are
two huge warehouses built in 1925 and 1932 for the Liverpool
Warehousing Company. The company operated from 70 Pall Mall in
Liverpool and for many years they were the largest firm of warehouse
keepers in the UK with cotton as their predominent commodity.
Here, in January 2010, the warehouses are disused.
 Above: the backs of the
warehouses on the side of the Bridgewater Canal.
 In April of 2009 a fire broke
out in the 1932 warehouse. "Thirty
firefighters wearing
breathing apparatus battled a blaze in the basement of a Trafford Park
warehouse. The firefighters had to contend with intense heat as
they brought the
blaze under control at the disused seven storey Liverpool Warehousing
Company building, on Trafford Wharf Road. It is believed that the
fire - which damaged a large quantity of paper,
clothing and cloth last Friday night - was started deliberately."
(http://www.messengernewspapers.co.uk) |