Liverpool International Exhibition - 1886

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12-07-2009
dazza

Liverpool International Exhibition - 1886

The International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry in Liverpool, England - was opened by Queen Victoria on 11 May 1886.

FTL Deisign website [link below] has published many new images of Liverpool which were [I think] commissioned for the exhibition at the time, and were featured in an album sponsored by Lewis's department store.

http://1886le.ftldesign.com/

D.
12-07-2009
Waterways

http://1886le.ftldesign.com/1886LE02.jpg

This looks like a drawing. But it shows the Princes Dock accumulator Tower. This was demolished after WW2 to make way for the new locks.
12-08-2009
pablo42

Nice one guys.
12-08-2009
JMLE

Liverpool Exhibition 1886

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...xhibition2.jpg
12-08-2009
Kev

A beautiful image :)
12-08-2009
ChrisGeorge

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waterways

This looks like a drawing. But it shows the Princes Dock accumulator Tower. This was demolished after WW2 to make way for the new locks.

Thanks Waterways. There's a grainy photograph of the Princes Dock Accumulator Tower taken from a screenshot of the Lumiere brothers film from 1897 at http://www.liverpoolwiki.org/Liverpool's_destroyed_landmarks

Chris
12-08-2009
dazza

Quote:

Originally Posted by Waterways

This looks like a drawing. But it shows the Princes Dock accumulator Tower. This was demolished after WW2 to make way for the new locks.

I wonder whether the drawings were traced from photograph originals? The perspective is well done, and it's the first time I've seen these images personally.

Waterways - I think you're right, it's looks like the Accumulator Tower, as shown on Lumiere brothers film c.1897 film still - posted by Chris above.

Are there any other pictures of this?

D.
12-09-2009
az_gila

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Would the Accumulator Tower...

....have been located just to the right of this picture?

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/att...1&d=1260323185

Picture from the "Story of Liverpool" book published by the Liverpool Corporation in 1957
12-09-2009
dazza

Quote:

Originally Posted by az_gila

....have been located just to the right of this picture?

Hi az gila,

That's correct. The picture you posted was the dry basin of George's Dock, showing the first of the three Graces to be built over it. I've highlighted the site of the dock below, in blue.

Prince's Dock was the next one along [also highlighted] - the map shows the top part of the dock, with half-tide dock, at the river entrance, where the Accumulator Tower was located.

D.

http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/a...rincesDock.jpg
12-09-2009
Ged

This old Yo thread should be of interest then.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...OOL+EXHIBITION

.
12-09-2009
ChrisGeorge

Quote:

Originally Posted by dazza

I wonder whether the drawings were traced from photograph originals? The perspective is well done, and it's the first time I've seen these images personally.

Hi dazza

Yes I think the drawing is likely to have been done from a photograph. Remember that in 1886 photographs did not appear in books, newspapers, or periodicals. Illustrations were usually etchings or woodblock engravings, etc. It was not until the 1890?s that the first halftone photographic reproductions appeared in daily papers, and then it took another ten years before the process was fully adopted.

Chris
12-09-2009
dazza

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ged

This old Yo thread should be of interest then.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...OOL+EXHIBITION

Thanks for that Ged,

Looks like the Victorian's had it all sorted - they had three railway tracks feeding right into the exhibition site for unloading the exhibits, presumably?
12-09-2009
dazza

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

Illustrations were usually etchings or woodblock engravings, etc. It was not until the 1890?s that the first halftone photographic reproductions appeared in daily papers, and then it took another ten years before the process was fully adopted.

Thanks Chris, :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Of course, it never occured to me before? Fox Talbot was producing images as early as the 1840's, but it took another 60 years to get the images fully mobile. Amazing stuff, and hence, 'The Illustrated London News', with its sketches, not photographs.

D.
12-09-2009
ChrisGeorge

Quote:

Originally Posted by dazza

Thanks Chris, :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Of course, it never occured to me before? Fox Talbot was producing images as early as the 1840's, but it took another 60 years to get the images fully mobile. Amazing stuff, and hence, 'The Illustrated London News', with its sketches, not photographs.

D.

Correct. Same with Punch, The Illustrated Police News, The Penny Illustrated, etc.

C
12-09-2009
Samp

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ged

This old Yo thread should be of interest then.

http://www.yoliverpool.com/forum/sho...OOL+EXHIBITION

.

Well done Ged (our man on the spot!)
12-09-2009
Samp

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisGeorge

Correct. Same with Punch, The Illustrated Police News, The Penny Illustrated, etc.

C

Hello Chris.

I have an old book 1858 and it is illustrated with actual photographs pasted in.

On another topic. I watched aTV programme last night on the story of Santa Clause (yes Ged I still believe in him!) You were not interviewed for it by any chance? A chap in it being interviewed looked like your picture on Yo!
12-09-2009
Ged

Ho ho ho :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
12-10-2009
pablo42

The council are doing something similar in Shaghai as we speak aren't they.