Liverpool District Lighting Company

[geoff]

Just up Sandfield Road Gateacre is a building that was used to generated Electricity for the Village of Gateacre and possibly the local area. This was long before Manweb .
The Company that owned it was called The Liverpool District Lighting Company . ( We are talking around the early 1900's).
One of the Directors of the company was Holbrook Gaskell 11 the son of Holbrook Gaskell the Chemical Industrialist who lived in Woolton.

[hulmegrandson]

Hi Geoff. Here is a photo i took last year, when having a memorable day in Gateacre with with my mum and Jackanory (Hilary).



I found this website showing how the regeneration of the building is going, it's looking a lot better than it did last year.

www.northerndesignawards.com/entry/powerhouse

All for now, Mike

[geoff]

Hi Mike , great Photgraph. In the 1980's it was possibly owned by the City Council as I seem to remember it was used as a store for their school meals dept.

Good to see the building is going to be saved by converting it to apartments.

Geoff.

[jborrowscale80]

Hi Mike - where exactly is this building?
Joan

[hulmegrandson]

Jan 15, 2012 20:52:49 GMT -5 jborrowscale80 said:

Hi Mike - where exactly is this building?
Joan

Hi Joan.

Its in Sandfield Road opposite Travis Perkins builders yard.

All for now, Mike