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    ****, 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!
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    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?

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    Wheres the tip thats in Otterspool?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Max View Post
    Wheres the

    tip thats in Otterspool?
    At the very end of Jericho Lane.

    The Dingle Steps down to the Herculaneum Dock are a public right of

    way.
    The gate at the top used to be locked at sunset - I don't know if it still is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    The steps were not for public use. The steps took men down to the Herculaneum Dock from Grafton St. . .

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge View Post
    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.

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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
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    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.
    Okay, thanks, Philip,

    for that clarification.

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    Default L3 in the Dingle.

    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    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.
    We live on Riverside Drive, and our postcode is L3.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MissInformed View Post
    We live on Riverside Drive, and our postcode is L3.
    Whereabouts in Riverside Drive, Carrie?
    It's definitely L8 exactly opposite that L3 sign I took a photo of, and then I walked towards the Garden Festival site where L17 starts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PhilipG View Post
    Whereabouts in Riverside Drive, Carrie?
    It's definitely L8 exactly opposite that L3 sign I took a photo of, and then I walked towards the Garden Festival site where L17 starts.
    i dont want to say exactly where i live on here philip, but my postcode is definitely L3.
    I even emailed the council about trying to define my area. They said Toxteth, Dingle, or Otterspool could be my area! So, basically pick!

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    Quote Originally Posted by snappel View Post
    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?
    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

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