Quote Originally Posted by shytalk View Post
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.