Mann Island/ New Liverpool Museum Area

[marky]

Much more of the brickwork has been revealed today. The workers were cleaning up a large curved brick feature (several feet wide).

[Steven]

I don't know how correct this is ? but I have been told that all of that Sandstone (including the stuff to build the Cathedral) came from Quarry Street, off Beaconsfield Road.

(Near Strawberry fields > for our Overseas mates.)

[kat2]

i dunno, but the photos i took looked like red brick to me, but further round where the pontoon is there are lots of sandstone blocks fenced off, no doubt perhaps either for the canal or some kind of feature garden?
kat

[marky]

According to information sheets placed on the fence around Mann Island...the yellow sandstone is part of the Canning Dock wall. Some of the other structures will be of interest to railway buffs...the curved pits are to do with the old Mersey Railway Tunnel ventilation system.

[PhilipG]

I don't know how correct this is ? but I have been told that all of that Sandstone (including the stuff to build the Cathedral) came from Quarry Street, off Beaconsfield Road.

(Near Strawberry fields > for our Overseas mates.)

Woolton Sandstone has been used for lots of Liverpool buildings, including the Anglican Cathedral, but the quarry was worked out before the Cathedral was finished and stone from Runcorn (I think) was used to complete the building.

[kat2]

Mann Island developments video (promotional )
http://www.mannislandapartments.com/flythrough

More here but from a different website to do with the developments
http://www.neptunedevelopments.co.uk/news/news.asp
kat

[Paul D]

[kat2]

Same photographic position as mine, but in colour if you scroll five messages back up from your post, six if you count this **
lets hope we get some better weather to get some decent photos
kat

[iain]

[AK1]

Great pic!

[iain]

Thanks

Anyone know what's happening with that corner of the Port of Liverpool building, with the scaffolding on it?

[Kev]

30th September 2007 (Please view the original FULL sizes)







Seeing these worried me slighty:



New Liverpool Museum:





Canal Link:

[phredd]

Can anyone tell me why the building on the right in pic five is still standing ??

I thought it would have gone the way of all landfill by now.
From the day my mother took me there I have hated the place.
Looking forward to the new one though.

Phredd

[Kev]

LIVERPOOL’S new museum has won a £1.4m Government grant to pay its running costs for its first year.

The waterfront X-shaped development will benefit from the extra funding in 2010 after a spending review by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Culture Secretary James Purnell pledged an extra £50m to Arts Council England to be invested in the arts over the next three years.

The funding guarantees free public admission to England’s national museums and galleries until at least 2011.

National Museums Liverpool say the extra £1.4m funding will enable them to provide a world-class tourist attraction, displaying popular objects like the Lion steam locomotive and a carriage from Liverpool's historic overhead railway.

more

[woody]

[B]30th September 2007 (Please view the original FULL sizes)
Canal Link:

Kev, great pics, that last one is a beaut. showing the meeting of the canal and the museum.
Can I show it over on SSC, please