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Liverpool Picturebook

A site dedicated to photographs and History of old Liverpool

  1. Liverpool Docks Development

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post
    Under the first Dock Act, 1708, the Mayor, aldermen, bailiffs, and Common Council became the trustees of the proposed docks in Liverpool, and were empowered to construct the dock and to levy dues. By an Act of 1811, however, they were separately incorporated and the finances of the docks were separately administered from those of the corporation, by a statutory committee of twenty-one members appointed by the trustees. The control of the docks by a corporation, which was in no way representative
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  2. Atlantic Crossings - Liverpool to America

    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Edwards View Post
    It was a tiny cargo, but the 30 tonnes of tobacco brought into Liverpool from America on a ship called the Friendship back in 1648 had great historic significance. It is widely believed that the Friendship’s freight was the first instance of transatlantic trade between Liverpool and the United States.





    James Jenkinson, the merchant
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