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You have to hand it to Stratus Imagery.
They've even made Birkenhead look pretty.

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1830 An Account of the Rail Trials at Rainhill.

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1950 Clarence Dock

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1953

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1962 Huskisson Dock

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Undated Carter

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Clarence Dock to Seaforth

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Grain Barge

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Ferry Terminal

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Some pictures of the Liverpool Leeds Canal.

1906 Liverpool Basin near Pall Mall warehouses.

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1920 Litherland

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1950 Brown's Lane Swing Bridge

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1950 Dunnings Bridge

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1950 Repairing Old Roan breach.

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1950 Swift's Bridge (Holy Ghost)

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1950 Knight's Bridge (Fleetwood Lane)

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1950s From Sandhills Bridge

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1952 Demolition of Liverpool Co-op at Forth Street/ Bedford Place

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April 18 1954 Netherton Sewer Pipe crossing. Blyth Hey in the background.

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April 24 1954 Netherton pipe. Tailor's Arms/ Cooksons in the distance.

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Some more from the Liverpool Leeds Canal.

Towpath abutment under Netherton bridge

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1952 Breach pictured from Litherland Bridge

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Athol Street Iron Bridge

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July 1949. Hall Lane/ Old Liverpool Road Maghull. Canal breach.

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Litherland Lift Bridge.

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Litherland

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Maghull Parish Church

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Maghull swing Bridge

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September 1950. Maghull Swing Bridge.

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Tillotson's Yard

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August 1951. Sandhills. Samuel Banner left. Tillotson's right. Tate & Lyle tug pulling two coal barges.

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c 1950 Tate & Lyle loading bay.

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Suction uploading at Tate & Lyle.

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Unloading at Athol Street Gasworks

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From Meccano Magazine March 1954.

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New Brighton's Tower Ground can be seen in the last picture. Now a housing estate.

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Berni Inn River Rooms Pier Head. Looks like they didn't want to get their feet wet.

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1970s Pier Head

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1974 Ferry Terminal

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1980s Pier Head

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1987 Pier Head

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Ah the Berni Inn. Whatever happened to Berni Inns, I used always try and find a Berni when I was on the road? I remember that one, an early date with my now Wife :D Ken
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Meccano Magazine March 1954

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Development of the Port of Rotterdam into the North Sea.

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Some aerial views of the area.

2015

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Between Formby and Maghull

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Chavasse Park

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Southport

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Southport's Ground

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India Buildings

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Posted by Christian Smith on twitter @Chrisphoto 1300. October 23 2018.
Fairly brilliant.

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Great photos, thanks for taking the time to find and post them, Dan. :D
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The Mersey Railway and Railway Tunnel.

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Building of the Railway Tunnel

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Walker Engines Guibal Fans Ventilation System

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1891 Practical Engineer

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1857 Prototype locomotive

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1885 Goods Engine

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Birkenhead Central

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James Street Platform.

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July 1922 James Street

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2016

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Repair work in Rail Tunnel

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Riverside

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Remains of Riverside

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Ventilation Shaft Norton Street

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May 12 1883 Scientific American Supplement

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Pictures taken by Edward Pye of Chorley in the 1920s.

Water Street

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London Road

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South John Street looking to Lord Street

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Pall Mall. Cockspur Street left, Tithebarn Street ahead.

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One of Blackpool

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Autonomous Ships from Ship Technology December 3 2018.

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MV Yara Birkeland
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Link to paper : A Quantitative Analysis of Possible Futures of Autonomous Transport.

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1806/1806.01696.pdf

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From gcaptain website.

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Landing Stage

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Pier Head

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The River

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Bootle from The Liverpool Guide by W Moss 1801.

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From the FT May 9 2016. The Blacklist.

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Liverpool Inns from Liverpool guide by W Moss 1801.

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1875 Canada Dock

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1890s Mann Island

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c 1910 Construction of the Liver building

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Undated Docks

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Late 70s

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Bootle Docks 2013

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Langton Dock

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1913 Royal Opening of the Gladstone Dock

Looks like the Royal Yacht Britannia docked at the Pier Head and the procession heading off .
I think there's a picture elsewhere on the forum showing Queen Alexandra at St George's Hall on the same day.

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1900s

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Undated. Liverpool dockers

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Late 1920s

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1917

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Undated

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July 11 1946 Alexandra and Hornby Docks and most of old Bootle

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July 20 1937

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Tillotson's on Commercial Road.
Canal (not visible) immediately to the rear, then Samuel Banner.
Sandhills Lane running down to Regent Road at a slight diagonal on the left.
Dominion pub on the corner of Sandhills Lane.
Streets at bottom of photo, left to right: {many people in the streets,maybe watching the plane)
Aspinall Street
Lambeth Road
Reading Street
Elstow Street
Harebell Street
Woodbine Street

Beyond the railway, left to right;
Birchall Street (Walker's Bitter Beer hoarding at the end of the street)
Foster Street

Docks in view, left to right;
Sandon
Husskison No 1
Huskisson No 2
Huskisson No 3

Map of area shown.

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Invicta wrote:Is the Biomass Terminal for exports or imports. Anyone know what it does? :wink: Ken
Scoping Report for the Alexandra Dock Terminal (210 pages) Link below.

https://infrastructure.planninginspecto ... Report.pdf

Some maps from the report.

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From Peel Ports.

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