The former dock master's office on the right is now Granada TV's news studios and the building with the tall chimney, once James Newton's ship's chandlers and sailmakers, is now a bar and restaurant. Behind this is the newly-built Merseyside Police HQ. In the background rises the massive bulk of the Anglical Cathedral- more pictures of which may be seen elsewhere in our Liverpool gallery.

Compare the devastation above with how the place looked sixty years earlier -and the same scene a quarter of a century later, in 2006