No 9 Tank House, off Watson Street, St Helens

After designing Rainford Hall for Colonel Richard Pilkington, James Medland Taylor became the architect for the Pilkington Brothers glassmaking business in St Helens. No 9 Tank House is one of the few remaining factory buildings from that time and has been attributed to J M Taylor by Pevsner. It is the earliest remaining gas-fired continuous tank furnace in Europe and has now been converted into a display gallery for the World of Glass Museum, to which it has been connected by a bridge over the canal.