Regent Road showing Union Cold Storage Co, 1978

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A scene of Vauxhall Road in Liverpool in 1935.
The Green Man pub is on the right of the photo.
The bridges going across the road were apart of Tate and Lyle. :wink: :D

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Aerial View of the OHR. Somehow, Albion House, on the left just over the rooftops this makes it look even more impressive.
Dome of the Old Custom house in the background. With the Baltic fleet further down the dock road. Difficult to figure out the buildings. :wink: :D

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Great photo Joe

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fatboyjoe90 wrote: Mon Jun 15, 2020 12:28 am Aerial View of the OHR. Somehow, Albion House, on the left just over the rooftops this makes it look even more impressive.
Dome of the Old Custom house in the background. With the Baltic fleet further down the dock road. Difficult to figure out the buildings. :wink: :D

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Thanks for the great photo, Joe. Here's a picture of that area from 1910.


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the building is the Goree Piazzas

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Hornby Lock caretaker Alec Morris with his wife and dog look out across the lock from their Mersey Docks and Harbor house April 1967" :wink: :D :D



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Lord Street crossing at Whitechapel 1903. :wink: :D

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The dock was the last and biggest designed by Jesse Hartley, opening in 1859. In 1862, the Canada half-tide basin, which became Brocklebank Dock, was added by George Fosbery Lyster. Canada Dock dealt in timber being named after the main source of the trade, Canada.

The fire was the greatest concern and the dock was initially kept isolated from the rest of the dock system for safety reasons. However, a fire did occur in 1893 causing £50,000 of damage. The original river entrance also presented navigational difficulties, with the area affected by silting. Modifications to the basin took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, creating the branch docks and graving dock.

During the First World War, the liner RMS Lusitania was refitted at Canada Dock, including the installation of twelve 6-inch guns.

The removal of the problematic tidal basin only took place after World War II, following a complete rebuild. Further improvements took place during the 1950s and 1960s as the dock became a base for cargo liner companies such as Harrison Line.
The dock was used as a ro-ro berth during the early 1990s.


Canada Branch Dock No. 3, in 2009
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Railway connections
The dock was connected to the national rail network by the Canada Dock Branch Line. The short branch line from Atlantic Junction, just west of Kirkdale railway station, into the dock was closed on 12 September 1982. The terminus was Canada Dock railway station. Although the branch line closed to passengers in 1941, it remained in use for goods. The Route Utilisation Strategy states that there should be no building on the short path of the old track in case it requires reinstating.
From 1893, passenger services were also provided by the Liverpool Overhead Railway via Canada Dock (LOR) station until 1956.
Present Canada Dock remains in use, handling general bulk cargoes and as a site for scrap metal processing and storage
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Good photo and information Joe

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Good history Joe,
We brought many a load of Timber and Plywood from West Coast Canada to the so named Canada Dock ( Made from trees possibly felled by Matt Wethered)
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fatboyjoe90 wrote: Sat Jun 20, 2020 1:34 am The dock was the last and biggest designed by Jesse Hartley, opening in 1859. In 1862, the Canada half-tide basin, which became Brocklebank Dock, was added by George Fosbery Lyster. Canada Dock dealt in timber being named after the main source of the trade, Canada.

The fire was the greatest concern and the dock was initially kept isolated from the rest of the dock system for safety reasons. However, a fire did occur in 1893 causing £50,000 of damage. The original river entrance also presented navigational difficulties, with the area affected by silting. Modifications to the basin took place in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, creating the branch docks and graving dock.

During the First World War, the liner RMS Lusitania was refitted at Canada Dock, including the installation of twelve 6-inch guns.

The removal of the problematic tidal basin only took place after World War II, following a complete rebuild. Further improvements took place during the 1950s and 1960s as the dock became a base for cargo liner companies such as Harrison Line.
The dock was used as a ro-ro berth during the early 1990s.


Canada Branch Dock No. 3, in 2009
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Railway connections
The dock was connected to the national rail network by the Canada Dock Branch Line. The short branch line from Atlantic Junction, just west of Kirkdale railway station, into the dock was closed on 12 September 1982. The terminus was Canada Dock railway station. Although the branch line closed to passengers in 1941, it remained in use for goods. The Route Utilisation Strategy states that there should be no building on the short path of the old track in case it requires reinstating.
From 1893, passenger services were also provided by the Liverpool Overhead Railway via Canada Dock (LOR) station until 1956.
Present Canada Dock remains in use, handling general bulk cargoes and as a site for scrap metal processing and storage
Joe, the part about route utilisation and not building on the old track in case it needs reinstating is well out of the window, from Derby Road to Bankhall lane has been filled in and built on, the tunnel leading to Atlantic junction still exists although the exit to the west of the tunnel has been filled in, the only way any rail traffic from the dock estate can join up with the national rail network is via the cross over on Regent Road /Langton Dock, (behind the old Bootle Hospital) and that does in fact lead to Atlantic Junction. JJC.
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John, thank you for pointing these errors out to me, my researcher has been off work for over a month now. She will be getting her cards when she shows her face here again.
I hope she does not read this before she sees me, otherwise, I am in deep trouble.
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South African, bound cars which have been held up in Liverpool Docks by an unofficial strike by dockers, 14 June 1949, You can see some of the bomb damage on the roofs of the warehouses in the background. :wink: :D


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Liverpool Dock Strike
Liverpool murmurs of discontent were rumbling around the Liverpool Docks during the stormy summer of 1960.

Frustrated dockers went out on strike in early July demanding a cut in hours and an increase in wages – and the city’s seafarers soon followed suit.

The seamen wanted their working week reduced from 56 hours to 44 and a pay increase of £4 a month

Docks at a standstill in Liverpool on the first day of the national seamen’s strike, May 1966.
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Many thought their union, the National Union of Seaman (NUS), had been dragging its feet. So they set up their own body, the Seamen’s Reform Movement (SRM), to fight their cause.

The NUS was stung into action when the strike spread to other areas. It negotiated a reduction to 52 hours at sea and 44 hours in port.

But discontent still brewed and the NUS branded the leaders of the SRM as communists dedicated to disruption.

Voting takes place at a mass meeting of the National Union of Seamen (Mersey Area) at Pier Head, May 1966
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Arrest warrants were issued against Liverpool SRM officials for intimidation on August 13. Three days later, 5,000 dockers came out on a day-long strike and marched in silent protest to Pier Head.

SRM chairman Paddy Neary was charged under the antiquated 1894 Merchant Shipping Act for conspiring to incite Cunard seamen to break their contract of employment. He was later jailed for contempt of court.

The backlash in the city was enormous. The workers’ protest march through Liverpool on Tuesday, August 30 was the biggest the city had ever seen.

Lorries laden with exports queue up next to strike-bound ships at Liverpool Docks, May 1966.
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Neary served seven weeks in Brixton jail before mediation finally won the day. He was released to a hero’s welcome back in Liverpool with placards even calling for him to receive a knighthood!

Six years later, on May 16, 1966, the NUS called its first national strike since 1911 over working conditions. This time the union wanted the working week reduced to 40 hours.

By the end of May, the dispute was really biting. More than 20,000 seamen were out on strike and exports worth £40 million were jammed up in British ports.

Union officials paste a notice on the back of a van to say the national strike is still on, May 1966
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Minister for Labour Ray Gunter admitted that working conditions needed modernising. But he was worried that the reduction in hours, combined with overtime payments, would breach the government’s 3.5 per cent limit on wage rises.

Prime Minister Harold Wilson was less sympathetic. He said the union had been taken over by Communists bent on bringing down his administration.


Dockers vote to return to work at a mass meeting in the graveyard opposite the TGWU headquarters in Christian Street, May 1966.
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Paddy Neary is released from prison to a hero’s welcome back in Liverpool, October 1960.
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A run on the pound followed and a cap on food prices was introduced to stop profiteering. The Royal Navy was ordered to move ships to free up space in ports.

There were no less than 891 ships immobilised around the UK when mass meetings finally voted to end the strike on July 1. :wink: :wink:
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Excellent Joe

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Great post, Joe.
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Liverpool Overhead Railway at an unknown Station on the Dock Road 1934. :wink: :D

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Great photo Joe

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Shame the overhead railway has gone :cry: great photo! :D

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North End Car Spares, Dock Road 1984. :wink: :D :D

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Joe, bad bit of parking by the little car on the wall :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Thats the wife's car she said its the only space
She could find
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