Forums Forums Wirral History : Chasing the Past History Information Request What was this building in Brassey Street

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.