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oggie #310590 18th Apr 2009 6:08am
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No cup of soup/onion/ omelette combo for me-fankoo, since reading this. Gonna puke. Gross. Bleugh!!!

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Originally Posted by Northender
Oleo is a type of purified cooking oil used for making biscuits. The chances are, this building was an edible oils factory.

Usually animals intestines were brought from Woodside or Tranmere Lairage and processed into fat, then purified by putting it though a press. This would produce Oleo oil and Stearine was the bi product which was used to make grease proof paper. I know this because I worked in a factory that did this.

Oleo oil was also used as a lubricant for the axles on railway wagons. Some wagons had a box at the end of each axle where a block of fat was placed.

Oleo Oil has now been replaced by vegetable oil by most bakery companies.

There was another factory in Cathcart Street called British American Products which also rifined Oleo. This company moved to new premises in Duke Street/ Cleveland Street in 1967 and the building is now used as Happy Als bus garage.






This is great info mate happy,and is more logical than my theory.I do remember BAPCO on Duke St.Very well.

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Originally Posted by oggie
In the first picture,you can see some white double doors on the first floor.Around 1982/83 I delivered a very large drying table there for screen printing.We had picked it up from a factory in Blackpool took there and craned it up to that floor,I've often wondered if it is still in there as it was not the easiest of things to move,it was a creepy place then and I don't think the printer stayed there very long after,as he had a new business on Argyle st and then other stuff kept him occupied for a couple of years later.

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When Ducko and I went to explore this place,we found that the floors and rooms where sectioned off into units which had various business`s in.There was a lot of business`s there from the rag trade.Was this table used for printing of material?

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Originally Posted by Dava2479
Originally Posted by oggie
In the first picture,you can see some white double doors on the first floor.Around 1982/83 I delivered a very large drying table there for screen printing.We had picked it up from a factory in Blackpool took there and craned it up to that floor,I've often wondered if it is still in there as it was not the easiest of things to move,it was a creepy place then and I don't think the printer stayed there very long after,as he had a new business on Argyle st and then other stuff kept him occupied for a couple of years later.

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When Ducko and I went to explore this place,we found that the floors and rooms where sectioned off into units which had various business`s in.There was a lot of business`s there from the rag trade.Was this table used for printing of material?


No it was a drying table,it was metal about 12' long about 4' wide and probably 6-8"deep on 4' legs.It also had like a chainmail type of top on it.It took a dozen of us to move it out from the factory in Blackpool and half that to get it up to the first floor in this place,with a crane of course.

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wow nice info mate!


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This place has/is being used as an engineering works also. Go past it about 10 times a day, needs a further "mooch"!!


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Originally Posted by hoseman
This place has/is being used as an engineering works also. Go past it about 10 times a day, needs a further "mooch"!!


Ducko and I have been back down there a few months back as a follow up and it was all closed of off and all business signs taken down.I do know that at the foot of this building there is a garage there that used to fi motor bikes but each time we have been that also has been closed.

Due to go the archives soon so will check up on it on my way past.

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Oleo is something to do with processing natural oils as used in margarine, soap and tallow manufacture. Stork and Levers would have had an interest in this science but they had their own dock at Bromborough for importing palm oil from West Africa. Could it have been a margarine factory?
Just had a second thought. My Dad took me in his meat lorry to Norman Foods factory somewhere around there and I was amazed to see the dismal conditions under which tins of beans were made. They wouldn't get away with it nowadays! Could it have been Norman Foods?

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nice info kid we now have a name to check on thumbsup


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The 1968 Telephone Directory lists the address of Norman Foods Ltd (Meat Packers & Canners) as Hastings House, Canning Street, which appears to be the correct building.


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yerr spot on nice work gang!


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Originally Posted by bri445
.... Could it have been a margarine factory? ....


The 1894 Kelly's Directory lists:

Birkenhead Oleo Company, Margarine Manufacturers, 77 Canning Street.



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wow that is intresting! anyone know when it was built?


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Well done Bri & Upton

1857 Robert Higson, a stone mason was there, so I am guessing the factory was built after that.


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Further to the above, the factory is on the 1889 maps but not on 1875 maps


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