For any Old Dockers

[Invicta]

Years ago I was travelling in Southern Brazil with an American colleague who was a bit of a Star gazer and was desperate to see the Southern Cross.
Our Brazilian host took us way out into the countryside, away from the ambient lights of the town but no way could we find the Southern Cross.
Anyway we went back to town had a few beers and dinner and as we were leaving the restaurant the Southern Cross was right above us bold and bright, as, well, a star
Ken

[Dan]

A couple more, then back to work.













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Dan

[Dan]

Peter William Barlow envisioned a bridge across the Mersey from Liverpool to Birkenhead.

Luckily for Gerry and the Pacemakers his plans didn't come to fruition.

Building News November 2 1860





Artist's impression.



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Dan

[Dan]

1911. HMS Antrim in the Mersey ready to fire on the city during The Great Strike.



Waterloo Dock



Mona's Isle. Undated.



Landing Stage. Undated.



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[Dan]

Canada Dock Project







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[Dan]

Grove Street



Regent Road Hemer Terrace



Rimrose Road widening



Woodyard Rimrose Road



Rear of Spenser Street



Seaforth



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[bob. b]

Dan cracking pictures great one of a bridge across the Mersey never seen that before.

Bobby

[Dan]

Bootle c1842-1860




Bootle c1842-1860 continued




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[Dan]

Part of a side project to prove Bootle is the centre of the cosmos.












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[Dan]

Seafront 1964.



Floating crane.





Used to love the sound of footsteps echoing in here. Love the nutter little girl breaking all the health and safety rules.





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Dan

[Dan]

Undated Stanley Road.



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[Dan]

Level Crossing at Seaforth Corn Mills



Seaforth to Dingle bus



Prince's Dock



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[Dan]

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[Dan]

c1905 Landing Stage



1909 Garston Dock



1917 St George's Landing



SS Majestic



Gladstone Dock



Mersey Ferry



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[Dan]

AIDAnova Cruise Ship




Cabin



Yacht Club Restaurant



Beach Club Pool



Brauhaus Brewery



Itinerary



Navigation Bridge



Teppanyaki Asia Grill



Spa





But is it better than the Royal Iris?

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Dan

[Invicta]

Same owners as P&O and Cunard, Carnival. Nice ship but full of Germans
P&O have a couple of similar size under construction both using LNG fuel.
Ken

[lynne99]

Dan, can't be better than the Royal Iris, can it . Thanks Dan

[Dan]

Port of St Petersburg.





The Big Port






Moby Dick















UK / Russia



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[Dan]

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[Dan]

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[Invicta]

We never got to see Cairns, we berthed offshore at Yorkey’s Knobb for the Great Barrier Reef. Ken

[Dan]

Wellington Dock











Wellington Dock 1890



Wellington dock 1908



Wellington Dock 1954



Wellington Dock 1968



North Dock Plans





Plates



















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[Walsh]

Dan, More great images of older dock gates and docksides. Walshy.

[Dan]

Cheers Walshy.

If only our builders were a tenth as good. Read the bits in the report about replacing the old oak and greenheart gates.

It wasn't just engineering. They knew, in detail, the materials they were using.

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Dan

[Dan]

Port of Bronka.






































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[Dan]

Port of Ust Laga.



























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[Dan]

Requirement to dredge a channel in the River Elbe.




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[Dan]

Land availability of Mersey Ports in 2010.



Undated. Pier Head.



Seaforth before L2



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[Dan]

Russian Port of Novorossiysk.











Novorossiysk Sea Port.









2018 Grain Terminal.






The scale of our infrastructure problems.



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Dan

[Dan]

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[Invicta]

That piece about Finnish industrial action reminded me that, at about this time every year the Ice Breaker crews would strike or threaten to strike causing chaos to trade in the Gulf of Finland and Gulf of Bothnia, closing most West Coast ports. Ken

[Dan]

1908 RMS Etruria collision in the Mersey.



1908 North John Street.



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[Dan]

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[Dan]

One that was never built.







One still with us,just, on Scotland Road, next to St Anthony of Egypt.






One demolished in 1999.





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Dan

[Dan]

Biggest concern is, if the poles flip, we become southerners.





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Dan