They don't build offices like this anymore.
The old office premises of Geens Chartered Accountants on the corner of Liverpool Road and Lovatt Street on the outskirts of the town of Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent. They have now relocated to modern offices on City Road.
Liverpool Road was developed throughout the late 1820's to 1830's, although this set of offices may be from a later date. Geens set up business in 1884 and this may have been purpose built.
The founder of the business, Frederick Geen was an important character in the development of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, he worked in the audit section of the North Staffordshire Railway Company and susequently several potbanks before starting his business. He was the mayor of Stoke for the last three years of the nineteenth century and was involved in the proposals for the federation of the city, however, he thought that only Stoke, Fenton and Longton should have been federated. He was also instrumental in the construction of the King's Hall in Stoke in 1910.
It always strikes me as a rather beautiful little building.
They don't build offices like this anymore.
The old office premises of Geens Chartered Accountants on the corner of Liverpool Road and Lovatt Street on the outskirts of the town of Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent. They have now relocated to modern offices on City Road.
Liverpool Road was developed throughout the late 1820's to 1830's, although this set of offices may be from a later date. Geens set up business in 1884 and this may have been purpose built.
The founder of the business, Frederick Geen was an important character in the development of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, he worked in the audit section of the North Staffordshire Railway Company and susequently several potbanks before starting his business. He was the mayor of Stoke for the last three years of the nineteenth century and was involved in the proposals for the federation of the city, however, he thought that only Stoke, Fenton and Longton should have been federated. He was also instrumental in the construction of the King's Hall in Stoke in 1910.
It always strikes me as a rather beautiful little building.