OneGuyFromBarlick

Ballroom dancing, live theatre, music hall?

High class secure warehouse for valuable stock?

Not a warehouse, ballroom dancing, live theatre, music hall, prison, convent, monastery, toll house or custom house. It had no connection with entertainment, education, religion or military matters. Although it's not a warehouse Stanley is warm because it was used to store something. You'll need to put your creative thinking hats on because what they stored is not obvious from the appearance of the building. Inside it wasn't what you'd expect from seeing the outside!

Gosh Tizer , another doozy
Was it for storing Ropes?

Not ropes, Cathy, but you're right to suggest something that isn't stored in bottles, barrels, tins or boxes!

Water tower??

She got there before me. The surface part of an urban water service reservoir.

For storing and aging cheese?

Bales of cotton or wool? Books?

Not cotton wool, books, cheese or water - but you're getting closer with water!
Shutting down now until tomorrow morning! bbzzzz click

Icehouse?

They remind me a bit of the 'fake' houses in Bayswater, in that there London, to obscure the underground railway but I don't think it's railway related. I'm guessing it's a water pumping station...

Public Bathing House / Swimming Pool ?

Cathy wrote: ↑19 Jan 2020, 01:39 Public Bathing House ...

I think you are right, a Spa would account for the 2 separate buildings, male and female, necessary in Victorian times. I wonder if they would need 3 buildings now for people who don't believe what their chromosomes tell them?

She could be on the money!

I tried public baths a few suggestions ago....

Oh damn. Feeling deflated now...

Cathy, It's very frustrating isn't it!!

I'm getting another headache

I like Kev's suggestion, some of the sewage pumping stations / water treatment plants were built like cathedrals especially down London way.

Gloria wrote: ↑19 Jan 2020, 08:32 I'm getting another headache

Time to come clean Tiz, don't mess with Gloria's head it could be dangerous!!

An early Gymnasium?

My goodness, you lot have been busy! The bad news is that it's not an ice house, bath house, swimming pool, sewage pumping station or water treatment plant, water pumping station, spa or gymnasium. The good news is that you're getting very close. Kev is getting the general idea with his: `They remind me a bit of the 'fake' houses in Bayswater', but they weren't for housing people. You've all got carried away with the idea that they are connected with water but that isn't the only public utility!

Hiding gas o'meters?

Gloria wrote: ↑19 Jan 2020, 09:57 Hiding gas o'meters?

In Warwick?