cheers for the post, wow! i'll be watching!
cheers for the post, wow! i'll be watching!
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No Probs Guys, I didn't realise time team were at the pier head. Looks good tho!
darn i missed this. will it get repeated?
A shame that Time Team couldn't be bothered to get off their arses to excavate the Williamsons's Tunnels.
Their reply to a letter? 'They're not old enough'!!!
It hasn't been on yet has it?Originally Posted by Gnomie
No you havn't missed it Gnomie. It's on Monday.
Yaaay
Double Yaay
Make it a tripple Yeah!
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TV team’s peek into city’s pioneer dock
Apr 19 2008 by Mike Chapple, Liverpool Daily Post
LIVERPOOL is to take centre stage in the biggest archaeological dig which TV’s popular Time Team have been involved in.
On Monday, Channel 4 broadcasts The Lost Dock of Liverpool which documents the unearthing of the world’s first commercial wet dock, a creation which turned what had been a tiny fishing village into one of the greatest ports on the planet.
Tony Robinson and the team joined the massive 42-acre £1bn Liverpool One project as they uncovered a similar state of redevelopment 300 years ago when the place was just a seven-street settlement sitting on the muddy pool which gave it its name.
The completion of the so-called Old Dock by engineer Thomas Steers in 1715, which converted the pool into a wet dock controlled by floodgates, changed all that. It set the pattern for future dock systems worldwide, helping to turn Liverpool into the second city of the British Empire.
The broadcaster, actor, and comedian told the Daily Post: “We were filming there last autumn and what was fun was whereas we’re usually three days on site and then just go away, in Liverpool we kept on returning over a period of about two and a half months so we got a very vivid picture of what was being done.”
This centred on what was Canning Place, built over the original Old Dock when it was filled in during 1826 as the port expanded.
“We saw the dig through the layers of 20th century garbage, to the Victorian tenements until we reached what we were looking for,” said the man who formerly played Blackadder’s cohort Baldrick through the ages. “I think two of the most dramatic things was being able to see the homes of the dock workers of the 19th century and to ultimately find the dock on the pool that led to the name Liverpool.”
One more memorable feature of this Time Team Special is that, unlike other “digs”, a significant part of what has been exposed will not be covered over again.
He said: “In this case, the most spectacular feature will be left behind because the retaining wall of the original old dock, I believe, is to be used as part of the new visitors’ centre.
“Everyone today will be able to appreciate how important it really was.”
THE Lost Dock of Liverpool is on Channel 4 at 9pm on Monday.
mikechapple
Related Links:
Liverpool Old Dock and Custom House
Liverpool's Original 7 Streets
Last edited by Kev; 04-19-2008 at 08:45 AM.
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I will record and upload this to my google video account for our members who live over the pond.
Here's a few others I uploaded you may find interesting if you missed them
first time.
A history of liverpool.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...50662576&hl=en
Britain's Favourite View Liverpool
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yuvgGDbO7qU
Last edited by Bevy; 04-19-2008 at 01:05 PM.
Time Team Special
It was going good until they mentioned "the slave trade" and showed Nelsons statue with the French Prisoners of war in shackles.Oh dear!!
People not from L/pool may now think we have a statue of a slave?
A facinating programme so far.....
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I did expect better I have to admit - there just didn't seem to be any 'goings on' like the normal time team, but rather they were just guests without any diggings.
The thing that annoys me the most is that someone in the history of time, knew that these docks and buildings were there yet for a brown envelope, they were forgotten about and allowed to be built on.
Tis indeed a shame Cad, however, thankfully the ropewalks area has survived as a result of the development of this dock.
Novascotia, how interesting is that little area? Sadly dug up and soon to be buried beneath the apartments......
Liverpool had everything first, before any other city, therefore it was ours to loose first too, shame.....
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