Thousands of people pass historic Merseyside ruins every day but may not know what they are.
Just across the car park from Tesco and the Totally Wicked Stadium in St Helens sits a large derelict structure that once thrived as part of the town's key industry - glass making. Cannington Shaw bottle shop, which opened in the 1880s, made use of ground-breaking techniques to produce glass bottles by the thousand.
The size and unique shape of the bottle store made it a landmark in St Helens town centre until it was closed down in 1918 and eventually repurposed as a bomb shelter during WWII. After falling into disrepair by the 1970s, the building has raised questions in a generation who never witnessed the works open, yet pass the huge building every day.
