The
Black
&
White
Picture
Place
The Picture Gallery: Photographs of Liverpool
Liverpool Waterfront 1985
| A
'sunshine
and
showers'
spring
evening,
looking
north
from
the
Albert
Dock,
the
largest
group
of
grade
1
listed
buildings
in
the
UK,
to
the
beautiful
collection
of
buildings
on
Liverpool's
Pier
Head. To the right is Salthouse Dock, opened in 1734, and to the east of this, just out of shot, is the site of the first enclosed dock in the world- the 'Old Dock' opened in 1715. The elegant domed building is the headquarters of the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board. To its right, the tall structure, beautifully decorated with 'Egyptian' motifs, actually contains a ventilation shaft for the first Mersey Tunnel, opened in 1934. The area to the left is occupied by the Merseyside Maritime Museum. Behind all rise the towers of the Royal Liver Building, topped by it's world-famous Liver Birds. |
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"Have a care of them, for the men of Liverpool are the most perfidious in all England, worse than my pen can describe." Sir Edward Moore 1667 |
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