Birkenhead, Docks c.1965
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B399036
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Birkenhead Docks were started on 23 October 1844 when the foundation stone was laid. Before that, ships sheltered or tied up in Bidston Pool, which lay between Birkenhead and Seacombe. John Laird started his ship-building in Bidston Pool; he moved to the Mersey when the dock building began here. The Docks were once an independent company, but money troubles forced them to join the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board and to be controlled from Liverpool. The arrival of the railway in the 1840s made the need for deep water docks even more essential. It was the Great Western Railway which ran into Birkenhead and the docks; it was the London Midland, Scottish which ran into Liverpool.
An extract from Liverpool and Merseyside Photographic Memories.
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