Originally Posted by
snappel
Amazing collection of images there Kev, thanks.
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Yes, it would be good to see a bit of the Old Dock - I was excited enough just to see the George's Dock wall underneath the Cunard Building!! Imagine they'd dug up all those docks and built waterside promenades and that... It'd be so much better, far more unique and would make Liverpool a more desirable and unique tourist destination.
It would be good enough to see the whole of the Old Dock as you said. We had a perfect opportunity to dig it out and put it back.
What a lost opportunity!!!! What goons run this city? Only in Liverpool. The world's first enclosed commercial dock.
The Customs house was not heavily bombed. It was fire bombed and the structure was totally intact. London decided that Customs would be centred in the south - another raping of Liverpool - so the building was demolished. In 1950 a proposal came in for a 50 plus floor glass block on the site - being Liverpool, of course it was turned down. Miraculously a similar design emerged in New York, called the Pan-Am building.
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