Originally Posted by
Tony
Mo;22034
Duke's Dock was still there this morning when I drove past it.
You only saw part of Dukes Dock. Dukes Dock originally in the
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1700s, was nearly as you see it now. It was extended to have a branch off it in a cross shape - one of the old unique grain warehouse was at the end of one
of the legs and ships loaded/unloaded in the dry. The entrance to the branch can still be seen. Look at the old maps. The branch became the dock. Dukes
Dock was also extended into the Wapping Basin, as it is now. This section unofficially became know as Dukes Passage, as it was was a transit passage to
Dukes Dock proper (the cross shape) and Wapping Basin.
It is fair to say Dukes Dock is filled in and the concrete stadium is being built on it.
http://www.old-maps.co.uk/
There was a concrete stadium and mult-storey car park being built on King's Dock, but we all
know that don't we?
Unfortunately it is. See:
http://www.saveliverpooldocks.co.uk
Go to:
"King Dock - How not to do it",
on the menu.
Below: the grain warehouse at the end of the branch, which actually became the dock where the work took
place.
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