tarboat's photos with the keyword: warehouse

The L&NWR goods warehouse at Heaton Norris was opened in 1882 and served as a distribution centre for rail hauled goods until the 1980s. It is now used for self storage and remains a rare survivor in reasonable condition.

Premises built for the Robert Sinclair Tobacco Company on this corner site, to the right on Blenheim Street is Sinclair Building of 1913. On the left and facing onto Westgate Road is Blenheim House, built in 1919. The design was by architects Cackett & Burns Dick for use as a tobacco factory, warehouse and offices. The firm was acquired by the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1930, of which company Sinclair was later chairman from 1947 to 1959 and president.

The former warehouse of the Cheshire Lines Committee close to Warrington Central Station still proclaims the names of the constituent companies - Great Northern Railway, Great Central Railway and Midland Railway. The train seen departing on this very wet day was heading for Manchester on a service from Liverpool.

I grabbed this shot of the remaining corrugated iron fascia of the canal warehouses at Brentford as I passed by boat. The floating pontoons are to keep the public using the towpath well away whilst the site is redeveloped. The next week all these structures were dismantled and demolished. No doubt apartment blocks will arise in double-quick time.

Warehouse at Brentford Dock clad with corrugated asbestos cement panels. This building and surroundings seem to be occupied with old buses, including a number of Routemasters.

Southern end of the transshipment warehouse at the terminus of the Peak Forest Canal in Whaley Bridge. It is listed Grade II*. The first warehouse at the head of the Whaley Bridge Branch of the Upper Peak Forest Canal was built in 1801 and it is attributed to Thomas Brown who was the Resident Engineer for the construction of the canal. This was a three-storey building of gritstone construction positioned at 90 degrees to the canal. It was five bays wide with the central bay straddling the canal. There was an arched shipping hole in the central bay that permitted two boats to enter, side-by-side, so that they could be loaded and unloaded undercover. The potential of the Peak Forest Canal was considerably enhanced when it became the northern terminus of the Cromford and High Peak Railway in 1831, offering a route for Midlands carriers from the Cromford Canal to reach Manchester and the North West via the Peak Forest Canal. The capacity of the 1801 warehouse was adequate for effective day-to-day operation until the railway brought about a considerable increase in traffic for the Peak Forest Canal at Whaley Bridge and it was deemed that the existing storage facilities were no longer adequate and neither was there a connection with the railway. Consequently, it was decided to increase the storage capacity and make a railway connection by adding an extension of gritstone constructionto the original building. The extension was built in 1832 and a stone tablet over the central bay of the south elevation, is inscribed with the date, '1832'. It was built by Manchester contractor David Bellhouse Junior. The Ordnance Survey map of 1875 shows the railway approaching the north and south elevations of the warehouse on the east side. However, this was later changed to a single-track line entering the western bay of the extension through a doorway in the south elevation. This line had a curious arrangement in that it did not provide direct access from the main railway line. Rather, it curved in from the siding of the Bingswood Print Works and an amount of shunting by horses would have been required before waggons from the main line could enter the warehouse. A possible explanation for this arrangement is the possibility that a considerable amount of goods associated with the print works were carried on this line. The original 1801 warehouse and the 1832 extension remained intact until 1915 when, for reasons now lost, the top floor of the warehouse was removed. The remaining north, east and west elevations of the original building were then re-modelled and re-roofed to match the 1832 extension. The water feed from the Toddbrook and Combs Reservoirs reaches the canal through the warehouse, emerging from a culvert behind the metal fence. Thanks to Peter Whitehead for the information.

Wharfside corrugated iron on the tidal Chelmer at Maldon.

Canada House on Chepstow Street, Manchester, was erected 1905-09 to the design of W and G Higginbottom as a textile packing warehouse for H S Booth and others. The cast iron framing is faced in fine buff terracotta with a variety of decoration. The building is listed Grade II.

Built in 1908-09 for J D Williams and Co. as a mail order warehouse, the Langley Buildings is listed Grade II. The architect R Argile used a mass of glazed terracotta on the Dale Street frontage.

This fine crane survives out of use at the Calder Wharf in Ravensthorpe on the Calder and Hebble Navigation. Sadly the adjacent warehouses are now derelict and when I last looked were roofless.

The terminus of the Wirral line of the Chester Canal is at Ellesmere Port where the paired Whitby Locks once led to the Mersey and now lead down to the Manchester Ship Canal. Currently home to the Boat Museum the site is well worth a visit. The locks can be seen to the right of this shot with the hydraulic enginehouse, boilerhouse and chimney left of centre. The island warehouse stands behind with the three hipped roof sections just visible.

Railway warehouse in Longton, still advertising pre-1923 joint ownership.

Canada House on Chepstow Street, Manchester, was erected 1905-09 to the design of W and G Higginbottom as a textile packing warehouse for H S Booth and others. The cast iron framing is faced in fine buff terracotta with a variety of decoration. The building is listed Grade II.

Built in 1900 and extended in 1905, the Rushton building on Market Street, Wigan, was originally a food and grain warehouse. Today it accommodates the council civic offices.

The terracotta frontage of the Boden and Co lace warehouse on Weekday Cross/Fletcher Gate in Nottingham is certainly designed to impress the customer. There is some fine detail work in the design.

Detail from above the doorway of the Boden and Co lace warehouse on Weekday Cross/Fletcher Gate in Nottingham. Top quality terracotta to impress your customers.