Brick warehouses and post-war industrial units on wide streets, with open yards and hardly any residents.
What The Baltic Triangle looks like
Most of the Baltic Triangle is one and two storey industrial units on wide streets, built for light industry after 1945. Hardly anyone lives on these blocks, and yards and open hardstanding sit between the sheds.
Some older buildings survive among them. on Park Lane was built in 1883 and 1884 by W. D. Caröe and is Grade II* listed, in red brick with a lead covered spire. The is a flat iron pub on Wapping, with a ship's mast fixed to its roof. On a corner warehouse has 1916 set in the arch over its loading bay and 1882 on the gable beside it.
Wapping runs along the dock wall on the west side, past Jesse Hartley's 1856 warehouse and the castellated hydraulic tower at . On the east side the Merseyrail line sits in a deep cutting between two tunnels at , with sandstone retaining walls on both sides. The old Liverpool St James station stood in that cutting until 1917, and parts of its platforms are still down there.
Baltic Creative runs workshop units in converted warehouses on Jordan Street and Brick Street, with roller shutters and loading bays still on the fronts. Camp and Furnace occupies a former warehouse on . on Stanhope Street is a market hall, bars and workspace built inside the old brewery buildings.
Shot in The Baltic Triangle
Tony Schumacher wrote the BBC series The Responder out of his years as a Merseyside response officer. Dancing Ledge Productions filmed it across the Liverpool City Region, and the Liverpool Film Office names the Baltic Triangle among its locations.
The Responder, 2022
Martin Freeman plays Chris Carson, an urgent response officer working night shifts. Much of the series plays out after dark. The first series went out on BBC One in January 2022, and a second series was shot in 2023.
What The Baltic Triangle can double for
Fish Dock Road in Grimsby
Blundell Street's corner warehouse is dated 1882 and 1916 over its loading bay. It sits close in scale and material to the fish processing and smoking factories Grimsby built west of its own fish docks. Buildings on Fish Dock Road, Henderson Street, Sidebottom Street and Riby Street went up in red and yellow brick from the late 1800s into the early 1900s. They served the same kind of working dock trade the Baltic Triangle's older warehouses handled, and the two places grew a similar cluster of plain brick industrial sheds around a working dock at roughly the same date. Grimsby's own Dock Tower stands over the Royal Dock at 309 feet. It is a plain brick tower styled after the campanile on Siena's town hall, taller and more ornate than Wapping's castellated hydraulic tower, so it would need to stay out of any wide shot. Modern fish market signage, vans and the flood wall built around the docks in the 2010s would also need to be kept out of frame. Try searching brick fish dock warehouse now.
North Broadway in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Milwaukee's Third Ward burned in a single night in October 1892. The district rebuilt itself in brick over the next few years as a warehouse quarter for wholesale grocers and commission merchants. The Wirth, Hammel and Co. stable at 167 North Broadway is a two story cream brick building from 1892. The old fire station at 176 North Broadway is a three story red brick building from 1893. Both are close to the Baltic Triangle's own low scale. Trucking later pulled the warehouse trade away from the district. From the 1990s its brick buildings were converted into galleries, lofts and creative businesses, much as the Baltic Triangle's own warehouses were taken up by Baltic Creative from 2009. Most of North Broadway's other buildings run four to six storeys and Milwaukee's own cream city brick is paler than the Baltic Triangle's red brick, so the match holds only in the shorter, redder buildings on the street. Modern gallery signage, restaurant awnings and the tall new tower going up nearby since the 2020s would also need to stay out of frame. Try searching cream brick warehouse quarter now.
