I have been able to trace very little of either the establishments or company as yet.

Picton records that "in the year 1799 the Liverpool and Harrington Company for supplying the town with water from springs on the spot was established" Under the improvement actt of 1786 the corporation had taken powers to construct these works either by themselves or  others. Up until this time these powers had lain dormant, but stimulated by the incorporation of the Bootle Company the council made over their privileges to a company now created. Immediately on the subscription list being open, all of the shares were taken up.

1826 The company was established, but the next mention is not for almost 20 years, when in 1845 Gores reports that an Iron Tank belonging to Toxteth and Harrington waterworks burst on being filled.  Six lives were lost  December 25th 1845.

1846 A Waterworks and Pumping Station (shown on this 1849 map) at the Upper Parliament Street end of Lodge Lane were constructed.  At 192 feet above sea level, this is the highest point in the area.  The other high point of Toxteth being the summit of High Park Street, also at 192 feet.  The latter is the site of the covered reservoir which although not in use as such, still exists today.

1848 on March 1st the Liverpool Corporation bought two waterworks.  The Toxteth and Harrington which cost them £330,719 and 13 shillings and Bootle which cost £204,087 and 8 shillings. The development top the right of the water works may well represent the short terraces still standing in Grierson Street today, where traces of the old waterworks can also be found.  The long straight roads or lines are most likely rope walks for which this area was noted at this time.

1905 The site of the water works on Lodge Lane is shown on the1905 map as a pumping works (map 0f), Corporation Yard and Public Baths (map 1f). The Public Baths persisted until at least the 1960s perhaps beyond that.

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