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Report - Kensington Market - or what's left of it (Liverpool, Sept, 2017

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urbanchemist

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Kensington Market (in Liverpool L7, not London) was a car-boot type place that was badly damaged by fire in 2005. All that remains now is the brick three story frontage on Prescot road, which is something of a local eyesore. Originally the site, bounded by Prescot, Lockerby and Lister roads, was surrounded by high red walls with trade done out of decaying sheds and, as far as I remember, shipping containers. These have now all gone and the site is due to be completely levelled and developed for student accommodation and new homes.

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This didn't look the most promising of explores, but turned out to be better than expected - no security and plenty of time to pad around looking at things while normal street life carried on outside.

Started with the basement, which was completely dark except for some holes in the rather dodgy looking foundations of the rear wall. This place mostly contained the usual stuff, tyres, prams, rubbish, but afforded a nice view up the central light well.

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Then proceeded up through various increasing lighter rooms and corridors using both sets of stairs - this place has a surprising number of loos.

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Eventually emerged onto the roof for a couple of views of local explores (the towers of Littlewoods and the Fish and Meat Market buildings), staying away from the phone transmitters.

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Half the fun of this one was finding a discrete entrance - a local moggy provided the clue eventually.
 
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urbanchemist

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Good effort that!

Thanks.

Note added in proof - I found out recently that this place was originally a co-op dairy and a rather large one as can be seen from the shed outlines on the back - this may account for all the loos in the place.

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Kei-J

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skgogosfan

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Thanks for posting this up for posterity - I wish I'd have known it was disused upstairs at the time it was open! Sadly I wasn't into urbex at the time the fire caused the main building to be closed so I just assumed it was all offices for the people who ran it.

The dairy,AFAIK,was the smaller building to the right of the first pic. At the rear was the market hall which was burnt down,hence the roof outline on the last pic - but IDK why part of it is two storeys and part three ; it looks like there were two separate extensions but I only remember the market hall as one.

Anyway,it's good to see the derelict bits ; even in that state they feel far posher than anything sold in there this century,for those two shops and any others at that level of quality had long gone! As has all trace of the building now,for the housing re-development has now finished and the only clue as to what was there is one of the new streets being named Market Rd/St,I forget which.

Whether the other phase of re-development will happen and flatten those run-down units and factories behind is anyone's guess...

Dave.
 

urbanchemist

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Thanks for posting this up for posterity - I wish I'd have known it was disused upstairs at the time it was open! Sadly I wasn't into urbex at the time the fire caused the main building to be closed so I just assumed it was all offices for the people who ran it.

The dairy,AFAIK,was the smaller building to the right of the first pic. At the rear was the market hall which was burnt down,hence the roof outline on the last pic - but IDK why part of it is two storeys and part three ; it looks like there were two separate extensions but I only remember the market hall as one.

Anyway,it's good to see the derelict bits ; even in that state they feel far posher than anything sold in there this century,for those two shops and any others at that level of quality had long gone! As has all trace of the building now,for the housing re-development has now finished and the only clue as to what was there is one of the new streets being named Market Rd/St,I forget which.

Whether the other phase of re-development will happen and flatten those run-down units and factories behind is anyone's guess...

Dave.
Thanks for the info - I remember not being able to find out much about this place at the time.

I did a report on one of those factories, called something like 'Kensington factory' - the other one (Shaw's Bakery) is partially in use by the car/taxi people at either end and contains mostly car parts and dead taxis.

As you say, these have been due to be flattened for years.
 
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