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            The building, centre of picture, is the White Tomkins & Courage grain silo, Stanley Dock Liverpool, built c1913.

Grain imports were a quintessential component of Liverpool's historic port activity, employing several generations of local people.  This particular building even had its own railway siding and the tracks still remain in place.  

Apart from being of local heritage value the White Tomkins & Courage grain silo is a good (and locally rare) example of "industrial classicism" architecture.  This evolved in the early 20th century as part of the Modern movement, promoted in Germany by Behrens, Loos, Gropius and Le Corbusier, whose key aesthetic aims were : -
(1) rejection of all unnecessary ornamentation
(2) use of the smooth, flat "modern materials" (reinforced concrete)
(3) expression of the building structure on the elevations as an integral component of the architecture
(4) in the absence of ornamentation, more focus on proportional perfection

This Liverpool dock estate building has all of these qualities in abundance in spite of an industrial silo being generally regarded as potentially a "low grade" architectural commission.

The White Tomkins & Courage building was demolished in September 2017.  This action was taken following a local planning consultant's report that it was obstructing the conversion of the dock warehouses into residential accommodation and was "of no architectural or historic value".   

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Taken on: October 9, 2017

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