Dave, one long time member said ignore him and he will go away, as he will just be talking to himself.
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AND HIS NAME WAS MOSES......;)
****, I never noticed those steps!
Could of saved time that time I rode down otterspool to the docks. But I rode back through to Aigburth!
Nice photos Dave. I wish I'd taken some photos before they built the flats there - I remember when it used to just be wasteland with all the petroleum stores still visible. Still, nice to see they've been kept - I take it they're used for storage?
Wheres the tip thats in Otterspool?
Great pictures. I wonder though if the steps could have originated from earlier, when the
Herculaneum Pottery was in existence preceding the building of Herculaneum Dock?
According to Robert Griffiths' The History of the Royal and Ancient Park of Toxteth, Liverpool (1907), p. 48-49, the Pottery was demolished in 1841
to build the dock. In which case, those steps could have been used for the potteries workers to get to work preceding their use by the
dockers.
Chris
The steps were built to give access to the Herculaneum Dock which opened in 1864.
This is not the site of the
Herculaneum Pottery which was at the very end of Wellington Road, on the shore, on the Liverpool side.
Part of Harrington Dock came to cover the site of
the Pottery.
The housing on the Herculaneum Dock has an L3 postcode.
In fact, all the South Docks are L3.
They can get away with it, because the docks always were private property.
Grafton Street on one side is L8 and so is Riverside Drive on the other.
When I used to work for Psygnosis (before it was purchased by Sony), the building was the one next to the Jaguar Showroom and the dock there was used as a cracking 0-60 'time your car' ground as long as you could brake before the corner.....
Not surprisingly I had my first crash there :rolleyes: :)