Lodge Lane Roperies (4)
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with very many thanks to Ken Roberts, who researched, wrote and illustrated this entire article

A section of the very detailed "Panorama of Liverpool in 1865" sketched from a balloon over the Mersey.  Visible on the horizon are some of the mansions on leafy Lodge Lane. On the extreme left is the partly-built Solway Street, then Rawlinson's and Hutchison's ropeworks on the sites of Asbridge Street & Ritson Street.  Further along to the right is the Greenfield Ropery, owned by the Coltart family, on the site of Handel Street & Mozart Street, and finally the Roscoe Ropeworks with the site of Bentley Road to the right.  In the foreground the open fields below the ropesheds can be seen, note the nursery gardens on Prince's Road.  Within 20 years this entire area would be covered with streets of terraced housing, with the remaining ropeworks being run by Hutchison & Pollok Ltd.