Aerial Liverpool

[Kev]

NEW pictures show for the first time how Liverpool is changing like never before.

ECHO photographer Jason Roberts use a

chartered helicopter to capture the dramatic changes to the city's skyline.

Each picture tells the story of ongoing development on a scale unimaginable

only a decade ago.

Click here

[john]

They are brilliant photo the new arena looks great, I love both

grounds in the one picture.

[scouserdave]

Excuse me while I pic my jaw up from the floor!
Fantastic pics!

[scouserdave]

I love this one

[Howie]

The

more I look at those aerial photos, the more I think how much we do need the canal link/x-museum/mann island development to tie the kings dock/albert dock,

paradise street development, and pier head all together.

[scouserdave]

The more I look at those aerial photos, the more I think how much we do need the canal

link/x-museum/mann island development to tie the kings dock/albert dock, paradise street development, and pier head all together.

I concur (my new

favourite word) with Howie. I wish the canal link could go as far south as Halton/ Runcorn.

[Howie]

I don't really understand the canal link fully. I know it is going to come across the front of the

Pier Head and under the X-Museum into the Albert Dock but which dock will be the terminus and where will the visiting narrowboats moor?

[Howie]

Here's a pic of Sheffield. This is what we

could see here in the docks.

[Howie]

Click here to

see the aerial photographs of Liverpool from webbaviation.co.uk and compare them to today's from the Echo. You'll see how much things have moved on

recently.

[Waterways]

Looking at this photo, it clearly shows that shaped canals and small

basins should have been cut from Canning, Salthouse, Wapping or Queens Docks inland into the new developments. Water enhances a project. People like water.

People like being around water.

We should be expanding teh water spaces, not filling them in.

[Waterways]

I don't really

understand the canal link fully. I know it is going to come across the front of the Pier Head and under the X-Museum into the Albert Dock but which dock

will be the terminus and where will the visiting narrowboats moor?

The

route:

http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/liverpool-link.htm

The problem

with Liverpool Dock, British Waterways and Peel want them to be a shallow narowboat waterway. They make money charging to in-fill the docks. This all against

what Liverpool's history and heritage is about.

Few cities can have ocean going vesels moored in the centre. Liverpool is one of the few at the Pier

Head, Canning/Albert/Salthouse and we did have this capability in Princes, Princes Half-Tide and West Waterloo, until they were made shallow to be glorified

canals for narrowboats. This deep water berthing must be re-introduced for many reasons. The city is totally incompetent to have allowed all this to

happen.

The South End and Central Docks must be run as one - two companies own them. British Waterways are incompetent and should go. A dedicated

dock development and maintenance body is needed.

There are major issues. Making the docks all deep water again:

- Excavating the

Trafalgar Dock and taking all docks back to Princes bringing them back to deep water docks. That is their history, not of being shallow canals. The Manxman

Steamship Co, is discussing where the SS Manxman can be permanently berthed if she is saved. Even if money is found for her return to operational condition,

moorings for winter lay-up will be needed and Birkenhead looks most likely. If deepwater can be retained in Princes Half-tide and Waterloo then it opens up

their options for winter lay-up and embarkation. The ideal place would have been at Princes Dock's old Belfast steamship berth adjacent to the Crowne

Plaza. Princess was their first choice, berthed right in the city centre.

- A dredger or two can start at Salisbury Dock and work its way through -

no mess to the locals as the water prevents mud. The fill can be dumped into the Irish Sea. (or off the airport to make a runway in the river, that would

mean no planes overfly homes as all flight paths are over water and 24/7 operation).

- Make sure the south docks are dredged properly fior visiting

deep water ships.

- Open up the wide Brunswick river lock to allow wide ocean going vessels into the south ends Docks - the Canning locks are narrow.

Imagine the Ark Royal on a visit.

This is a minimum to retain usable water spaces, then developing around the docks properly and professionally can

begin.

[Max]

I hope they show fights at this one when it's finished.

[Kev]

Here's a video

[bunf]

If anyone has any aerial shots please post them so I can salivate over them

[scouserdave]

There's some stunning ones at:
http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/liverpool/liverpool.htm