Daniel House, Stanley Road, Bootle

Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 28 Jul 2011

Built c1967, the architects Gunton & Gunton for developers Kenyon Construction Co. Mostly occupied by various local/central government agencies. The private sector has largely fled areas such as Bootle. Improbable as it may seem, Pevsner adduces Bootle as perhaps the nearest we come (or came) in this country to a Corbusian vision. Prompted by the need to revive a flagging economy previously reliant on the docks and the arrival of the Inland Revenue, in the mid 1960s the planners in Bootle, guided by the precepts of the French modernist architect, Le Corbusier, embarked on an ambitious reinvention of the town. Stanley Road was lined with towers and slabs, but, as Pevsner points out, the vision was undermined by the survival of older buildings in their midst. More recently, at least one has been demolished (Image]).

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