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Walsh
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Dan. You have provided a wealth of dockside and marine photos for us. Thanks.
I often walked past the School of Tropical Medicine, as a student, and wondered how important such a facility must be.
Life as an engineer has taken me around the globe – but I always felt anchored to, and very proud of,
my early Bootle and Liverpool upbringing. Walshy.
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Lots of needs for Engineers down your way Walshy. Have you hung up your boots yet? :D Ken
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Dan
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I heard this theory about the Mersey a few years ago but I didn't know the source.

HSLC Vol 2 1849
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There was no Mersey or Liverpool Bay up until 7000 years ago, and no Irish Sea 8000 years ago.

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Some early maps from HSLC.

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lynne99
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Dan . Thanks for those maps, where did you find them? I could look at maps for ages . Thanks again
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Dan
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The maps are from the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire archives.
They take a little while to load, but there's lots of interesting stuff in them.
First volume is 1848 to 1849.
The maps are a bit iffy. I was heading out for Chester yesterday and I ended up in Southport.
Nice coffee cake and coffee in the Lord Street shopping arcade though.

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Link to a paper from HSLC archive 1977. Dock Labour in the Late 19th Century.

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uplo ... Taplin.pdf

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1911 River front

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From the HSLC Archive 1930.

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Maps showing the enclosure of the pool.
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Link to The Pool of Liverpool HSLC 1930
https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uplo ... -Brown.pdf

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Renovation of the Albert Dock 1981, from the Liverpool Echo archive.

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Not the docks, but another man important in the development of the city.
James Newlands, Municipal Engineer.

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uplo ... Hamlin.pdf (24 pages)

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livac ... E,2014.pdf (7 pages).

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Dan very interesting reading that thank you for posting it.

Bobby
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Right Dan, you are spoiling me now. All those maps will keep me good for the who;e weekend. No hoovering again , oh dear.
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From The Wonders of World Engineering 1937.

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From the planning document for the cruise terminal.

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From Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire archive Vol.22 1869
Kirkdale, Bootle and Litherland shoreline properties.

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Link to the full paper is here.(76 pages)
It covers from Hilbre Island to Formby Point.

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uplo ... -Boult.pdf

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Link to paper titled Watercourse Management and Flood Prevention in the Alt Level 1589-1779 HSLC Vol 148 (1998) 36 pages

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uplo ... addock.pdf

A couple of interesting maps from the paper.

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Bigger version of Lord Burghley's Map showing: West Derby Hundred, Salford Hundred, Blackburn Hundred, Amounderness Hundred and the Lonsdale Hundred.
The Mersey would be at the top of the map.

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The Arnold Reanes in the second map is referred to as Arnot Raynes in the History of Netherton, and if I remember correctly, this was the coach road from Liverpool to Ormskirk which became Dunningsbridge Road.
The history was drawn up by a local historian working at Crosby Library and it used to be available from the local council libraries..


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Some more on Arnold Reanes.

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what a great bit of research.really enjoyed that. :D
origin waterloo.present and future bootle.
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1866. The Atlantic Cable was finally laid after several unsuccessful attempts.

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Some photos
December 1971.

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1909 One O' Clock Gun
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St. John's Church
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Dockers waiting for work at the Clarence Dock gate.

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lynne99
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I have a few ancestors buried at St John's church, yet I can't see any grave stones in the photo. Has any body got an idea why this might be. Thanks Lynne
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Lynne-some information.

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Link to Old Mersey Times website.

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/stjohnschurchyard.html

From The Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire archive Vol 51 (1899)

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More on the Albert Dock from the Liverpool Echo.

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August 17 1980
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AJ Beer Timber Supplier
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August 1 1983
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1996
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October 97 Barca Barge
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1998 Baltic Triangle
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Dock Office and Pumphouse 1960s
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1996
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1984 Hartley Swing Bridge
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2014
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1911
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Fantastic Dan :D
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Early Liverpool Coat of Arms From HSLC Vol 40 1890

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I was wondering why the last picture was so familiar.
Then I remembered , it was on the side of all the green corpy buses.

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lynne99
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Thanks for the info on St Johns. There is a Family Search site that give the MI of the removed stones. There is a link on the Liverpool family history forum, if you want it.
Can any one translate the Latin on the crest? My best guess is noble God who made ?? Free time ????
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Lynne
The motto is a quote from Virgil's Eclogue, in which Tityrus describes Octavianus as a god, in the line Deus nobis haec otia fecit.

It has been variously translated as :
These comforts, friend, were by a god bestowed.
These blessings, friend, a deity bestowed.
God has given us these things in tranquility.
God has given us this ease.
The man to whom I owe this happy leisure is a god.

Not me , copied the above from this link .(18 pages to explain a motto)

https://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uplo ... Harris.pdf

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1705 Map showing Old Benn's Garden from Liverpool in the Reign of Queen Anne by Henry Peet.

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Mauretania 1906-1927

September 20 1906 launch at Wallsend
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1907 Leaving the Tyne
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Sailing into New York after WW1
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Sailing off the Pier Head
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Going to the breakers 1929
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Mauretania II launch at Cammell Laird July 28 1938
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May 15 1939 going to Gladstone Dry dock
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May 10 1960 at Southampton
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November 1969 passing Queen Mary at berth
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Brass letters from the stern
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Dan wrote:1705 Map showing Old Benn's Garden from Liverpool in the Reign of Queen Anne by Henry Peet.

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Some excellent articles and photographs, thank you.JJC.
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Cheers John.

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Some pictures of the Overhead Railway from the Liverpool Echo archive

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1893
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Post 1893
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1894 Seaforth Litherland
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1920s
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1948 From the Liver Building
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Langton
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Seaforth road
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Passing the Liver Building
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September 30 1957 Locomotive Polly
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November 27 1957
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July 1958
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Herculaneum Bridge
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Great stuff Dan. Ken
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