Manchester Dock

**marky** · 03-28-2007

I passed this morning, but the Riverside Walk is closed off. 20T trucks were being loaded with rubble. I've not heard that any of the dock is being preserved or incorporated into the new museum.

PhilipG · 04-16-2007

Chester Basin area.

It's all fenced off now, but the gaps are just wide enough to get a lens in.
It's already been partly filled with concrete.

**snappel** · 04-16-2007

Campaigners: don’t bury history under a museum

AN 11th-HOUR attempt has been made to protect the historic Manchester Dock and stop it being buried under the new Museum of Liverpool.

An application to protect the dock has been lodged with English Heritage, in a bid to stop the dock – unearthed during work on the new museum’s foundations – from being filled in.

David Swift, of Anderson Road, Liverpool, has asked English Heritage protection officers to list Manchester Dock, constructed in 1785, and said that to cover something with such historical impor-tance would be a “travesty.”

More here.

EDIT: BTW Philip, your pictures don't show the bit I mean. The concrete there is the base of the canal. The dock basin they're talking about is off to the right of your photos, right next to the museum. I have some pictures taken from the Cunard Building roof which I'll post later.

PhilipG · 04-16-2007

Originally Posted by snappel

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EDIT: BTW Philip, your pictures don't show the bit I mean. The concrete there is the base of the canal. The dock basin they're talking about is off to the right of your photos, right next to the museum. I have some pictures taken from the Cunard Building roof which I'll post later.

To be honest, I wasn't sure what I was looking at.
Are my photos part of the Manchester Dock, because I've put them on the "Old Liverpool" page, and I'd like to get my facts right.
(I'm not very clued up on Liverpool's docks.)
I saw the concrete and panicked.
That's about as near as you can get from ground level.

**snappel** · 04-16-2007

Some photos here. In the first one you can clearly see the outline of the basin.

PhilipG · 04-16-2007

Thanks Snappel.

I've been checking old OS maps, and can see that what I took photos of is the Chester Basin, or the Chester Basin area, so I've edited my post which contains the photos.

OS map revised in 1924 (supplied by LRO).

**wallasey** · 05-13-2007

Pennine Waterways have just updated thier page on the canal link involving a brief insight into the uncovering of the Manchester Dock amongst other things.