Museum of Science and Industry

This warehouse marks the final extension of the Liverpool Road Station site. The London & North Western Railway Company bought more land at the Lower Byrom Street end to create enough space. The Warehouse was built to provide storage for the Great Western Railway, which had obtained running powers onto the site.  

The Lower Byrom Street frontage was originally indented at the corner now occupied by MOSI's café and shop. This was because the Railway Company allowed a public house called the Roebuck Inn to remain there. By 1913, the Warehouse had become known as the New Warehouse or Byrom Street Warehouse.   

Rail tracks ran into the ground floor from the adjoining viaduct, providing a transit area. Loading platforms flanked this track bed, which now forms the machinery well of the Textiles Gallery. Road wagons could enter the Warehouse through doors along the Upper Yard and on Lower Byrom Street or park outside the loading bays on the north side.