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Regent Road, LIVERPOOL, L3 0BA

The walkways connect Image with the South Stanley Warehouse. They have been painted in a bright retro style to enhance the ambience of the Sunday Heritage Market. http://www.heritagemarket.co.uk

A Grade II listed building, reputedly the world's largest brick built structure, it is currently the subject of redevelopment for flats and apartments.

The Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse is the world's largest brick warehouse http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/liverpool.html . It is a grade II listed building (English Heritage Building ID: 359563 http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-359563-tobacco-warehouse-on-south-side-of-stanl#.Vbvh1nnbKHs British Listed Buildings) The warehouse, dated 1900, is adjacent to the Stanley Dock, in Liverpool. With the decline of trade going through Liverpool, the warehouse fell into disuse in the 1980s and gradually into disrepair. Various plans have been unveiled for the Tobacco Warehouse to be redeveloped into several hundred apartments as part of a larger development of the whole Stanley Dock site.

The largest brick-built warehouse in the world.

Said to be the largest brick building in the world with 27,000,000 bricks, the entrance to the Leeds Liverpool canal is just visible to the left.

Situated at the Stanley dock tobacco warehouse and known as the King's pipe because any tobacco that tax had not been paid was burnt.

With no means of propulsion, the BARMERE relied on the wind and luck to take her across Stanley Dock and under the Dock (Regent) Road into Collingwood Dock.

The two outer sailing craft in Collingwood Dock are lovely examples of the traditional inshore fishing boat of the Lancashire coast, the nobby.

Stanley Dock's main warehouse is literally awesome, surely one of the brick wonders of the world, a magnificent industrial temple. Its vast hulk is such that it appears vast even from across the Mersey, as seen here. What elevates it from simply being a stupendously massive brick box is the detailing around the cornice, high up "above the snow line", Pevsner quotes from Osbert Lancaster (e.g. Image], Image], Image]). Its magnificence is mysteriously enhanced by its present state of dereliction, perhaps because it evokes a sense that the building defies modern development, that it cannot be tamed by conversion into the usual warehouse apartments and chain restaurants.* It was built c1897-1901 to the designs of Anthony George Lyster, Chief Engineer of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, with John Arthur Berrington responsible for the decorative flourishes. The building's thirteen storeys rise through 125 feet and cover an area of 36 acres. The 27 million bricks used to build it made it reputedly the largest brick building in the world at the time. It is also fire-proof, with concrete and steel floors, and cast-iron columns. Grade II listed. *This is probably romantic twaddle as when I visited in 2016, the insides were being cleared, presumably in preparation for aforementioned conversion. However, one challenge the building does throw up is that the floors are only around seven feet high because "the 77,000 casks were stored in single tiers to avoid breakage".