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The
Liverpool Warehousing Co Ltd
  On Trafford Park Road
there are two huge warehouses built in 1925 and 1932 for
the Liverpool Warehousing Company. The company
operated from 70 Pall Mall in Liverpool and for many
years they were the largest firm of warehouse keepers in
the UK with cotton as their predominant commodity.
Here, in January 2010, the warehouses are disused.
 Above: the backs of the warehouses on the side of the Bridgewater Canal. It is the end of the warehouse
though that gets the most attention because it is
home to a huge mural by the Littleborough artist
Walter Kershaw. Kershaw's first mural on this
building was completed in 1982 and unveiled by
Dennis Law. It was replaced by an updated
version in 1993.
   In April of 2009 a
fire broke out in the 1932 warehouse. "Thirty firefighters
wearing breathing apparatus battled a blaze in
the basement of a Trafford Park warehouse.
The firefighters had to contend with intense
heat as they brought the blaze under control at
the disused seven storey Liverpool Warehousing
Company building, on Trafford Wharf Road.
It is believed that the fire - which damaged a
large quantity of paper, clothing and cloth last
Friday night - was started deliberately."
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