does anyone know what was this building in Brassey Street
Seems to have been like this for years

a shop?

Peel Holdings Corporate HQ. ??

this has started to be turned into flats by the look of it ,work started but it hasnt been finished, they seemed to have stopped when it was nearly done.

Looks like one of the local whore houses in the area

Butchers, then a bookies at some point in time?

What number is it? It will be in an old street directory.

Editing this to add a niggle in the back of my mind, with no evidence, that there may have been during 60's/ 70's, a form of small weighbridge on the corner there.

Maybe nothing, may have been on one of the other corners.

From the looks of it (2nd floor, false window spaces) I'm guessing this is quite old. I'm also guessing it might have been a pub?

Here it is on google streetview - its on corner of brassey and patten.

On the 1875 map.

Checked out Kelly's and found entry for a Christopher Newhouse - dairyman. Also mentions public weighing machine!

Here's a better map from 1875 with "w m" marked for the weighing machine.

So what was the weighing machine used for? A primitive form of WeightWatchers?

The size of some these days, they would probably break it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truck_scale
assuming a weighbridge is the same as the weighing machine in question

1916 Wilmers a coal merchant lived there
poss used then for weighing bags of coal

was there in 1875 Derek, with dairyman if Kelly's is from that time.

I guess the Newhouse family got board of dairy More money in coal.

That was fun - finding a random building - working out where it is/was, finding its use and its occupants, and comparing it to the present day.

Yes, what fun, and not a mention of drug takers, unmarried mothers, benefit cheats or are they all living.............

Back to the weighing machine sketch... I wonder if that rectangular patch of concrete was the filled-in "pit" for the underside of the scales ?

It's visible in both the photos in more or less the place as indicated on the map.

Very observant Pinz, also a nice set of cobbles to drive in on, a break in the pavement i think.

Despite Bert's cynicism it was quite fun! (Bert you are entitled mate!) I found that very interesting.

If it's the place I'm thinking of I'm sure it was once the weighbridge cafe (late 70's early 80's)

Yes, that rings a bell

didn't all the mod moped scooter boys meet there when it was a cafe?

some older states men like myself, will remember that all entrances to streets/roads/passageways and so forth where cobble stones as it aided the horse or horses that pulled the coal/milk carts to have a sure footing on starting and stopping.

jimbob - i still remember cobbles at the end of roads - before the council realised they were worth something

think the correct term for them was SETS.

SETS is correct & most of them are still there under all that tar & gravel chippings they put down then sweep up. Probably a few tramlines as well!

They will be because most reoplacement roads aren't laid properly any way they just put an inch run over whats there.