Mann Island/ New Liverpool Museum Area

[Howie]

How much of the docks is exactly mann Island?

It's just that bit between the Port of Liverpool Building and

Canning Dock isn't it?

[Waterways]

It's just that bit between the Port of Liverpool Building and Canning Dock isn't it?

I was actually an island with water

on the Canning Docks side, Georges Docks side and the River/Manchester Dock/Chester Basin side. the other side was the passage from Canning Dock to Georges

Dock, which part of is still there.

[shytalk]

Ta, always wondered why it was called island.

[Waterways]

Ta, always wondered why it was called island.

It was a man made island. Orginianally before Georges

Dock the river was on two sides.

All the docks are built into the river on wooden piles except Stanley Dock, part of Heculaneum Dock and most of

Wapping Dock. With the building of ships, making docks and houses in the cities and towns they ran out of wood. That is why Lairds started to make iron

hulled ships and cast iron churches were being built: Everton and St. Micheals - prefabbed churches were exported via the Cast Iron shore. Canada Dock was

built to import timber from Canada to plug the timber shortage gap. The dock was built away from the rest of the docks in case of fire. Later docks were

built between Canada and Clarence Dock.

[scouserdave]

It was a man

made island. Orginianally before Georges Dock the river was on two sides.

All the docks are built into the river on wooden piles except Stanley Dock,

part of Heculaneum Dock and most of Wapping Dock. With the building of ships, making docks and houses in the cities and towns they ran out of wood. That is

why Lairds started to make iron hulled ships and cast iron churches were being built: Everton and St. Micheals - prefabbed churches were exported via the

Cast Iron shore. Canada Dock was built to import timber from Canada to plug the timber shortage gap. The dock was built away from the rest of the docks in

case of fire. Later docks were built between Canada and Clarence Dock.

Everton had more than one church and there were more than one St Micks. I

think you're referring to St George's Church, Everton, Heyworth Street and St Michael's, Church Road, Aigburth.

By the way, Oriel Chambers was a

combination of cast iron and glass. On its completion, it was described as a "great abortion" and an "agglomeration of plate glass bubbles." Sound

familiar?