Original hydraulic equipment, lifts and machinery survive in the rum warehouse along with, perhaps more interestingly, original workers' grafitti, mainly from the late 70s and early 80s, the subjects often redundancy, football and each other! In many ways the warehouses are time capsules, although proposals have been made to gut them and turn them into the (now standard...) leisure/ residential/ retail facilities. The Tobacco and south dock warehouses are currently in use by the Heritage Market, and so not accessible - the rum warehouse stands empty and unused, quietly awaiting it's fate, a strong symbol of Liverpool's former life.

Circles was taken in a disused early 20th century insurance office building on Dale Street. Once again the building has been empty for many years, the only regular visitors now being the pigeons. Many of the original fittings remain, including offices with names on the doors, framed photographs and telephone switchboards.

With all the interest in redevelopment in Liverpool, it won't be long before this place is snapped up and converted into a hotel or shopping complex, at which time many of the original features such as the concentric balconies in the photo could well be lost. Unfortunately not everything can be kept, so I just hope that myself and like minded others can capture as much of this history as possible before it's too late...