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Many buildings are featured in a series of WalkingWorld walks.
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Yes, we still have working docks in Liverpool. In fact after containerisation and the closure of the south docks tonnage went up and now exceeds anything seen before.There are moves afoot to bring back passenger traffic, and maybe large cruise liners will again be seen at the pierhead - let's hope!
(These words were written in 2006 and now, in 2010, we have indeed had cruise liners - the Queen Mary 2 no less - berthing at a brand new though slightly half-hearted Terminal. Shortly after this entry the smaller ferry landing stage sank and now, nearly five years & counting, there is no sign of a replacement. Even the 2008 European Year of Culture didn't get the sclerotic council off its collective arse. I give up...
More Liverpool Dock pictures
It is now the Conservation Centre for the National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside, and is open to the public in its' own right.
Top Below is the famous "Ye Hole in Ye Wall" pub on Hackins Hey, just round the corner from an equally famous Dale Street drinking spot, Rigby's, and beneath that is one of a series of vignettes set into dock walls on Atlantic Avenue depicting earlier times. Centre-stage is the magnificent glazed cast-iron staircase behind the 16 Cook Street office building - architect Peter Ellis's 1866 masterpiece, and on the right an interior view of the staircase.
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