Good Day! Love to see the landscape, townhomes of the historic Lancashire (England) in the midst of boundry to the country of England with many of friends shortly! (Arizona)

Julia

Ah yes, Julia, Historic Kernow and Historic Lancashire.

Now I see the connection, both good places for industrial images. 

I hope this is on the thread subject. My Dad was Lancashire born & bred. He told me that my grandmother had worked at both a cigar factory and a marmalade factory. Are either of those factories in the Lancashire industrial landscape? I wasn't told anything else about where the factories were. But I know she was a young woman in the 1890's and lived in Liverpool. Are there any known photos of industrial structures preserved in or around Liverpool?  I've only seen 'pretty pics' of Liverpool.

Thanks for all the POE member community posting on this often ignored subject. Edward, you really started something! @LOL 

To Linda-Mary, Liverpool had a Tobacco Factory called Ogden's. This could be where your grandmother worked. My own father worked there between 1945 and 1965, and I know the company had been there for many year even then. There is more information at

 http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,366098/prev_next,next.html

There is a good photo of the outside of the Ogden's Factory. I can remember going up the steps into the rather grand entrance when I had to take something to my father.

Liverpool has a great industrial heritage and was the main port of England. Unfortunately, it went into decline as a manufacturing base many years ago. I have many memories of the area but not many photos.

There may be some Scouse PoE members who have some shots of the old buildings who can provide more information.

Good evening, gentlemen. It's 5:19 pm here. So happy to see James using the am/pm time form. Here only the military and the internet uses the other time form. 

Edward, I haven't heard the word scouse since I was a kid. I heard my Dad use scouse to my aunts who were visiting from England. Yes, all of them were from scouse-land. I thought it sounded like a soup. But then I was 5 or 6 at the time.

I'll use that link to rootschat. Also go see Rod Burkey's photos. Thank you so much for describing Ogden's Tobacco factory.  Undoubtedly that's where grandmother rolled those cigars. She was a hard worker and had 7 children to raise. Interesting that we have a link through Ogden's. What are the odds on that?  I hope there's a pic of Ogden's somewhere. I doubt there was another tobacco factory in Liverpool.

I sincerely hope England becomes an industrial powerhouse again. I hope I live to see that day. Then we'll have photos of new industrial landscape on POE!