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The imperative behind its building, below the earthworks of a former signal station on Round Down, was a series of shipwrecks which culminated with the loss of the 1,250-ton Liverpool sailing ship

Alderley Edge village itself was not hit, the German planes used to fly over the Edge `and if they turned right they were going to Manchester, and if they went straight on, they were going to Liverpool

There are no images of the original building, but a decision by Liverpool Town Council in 1776 established the necessity for it on the basis that the North Meols coastline was deemed dangerous to shipping

One of the wonders of the waterway system, the five rise locks at Bingley in West Yorkshire are part of the Leeds & Liverpool canal.

In 1896 the Liverpool & North Wales Steamship Co introduced a summer service from Llandudno.

He also, it must be said, made a fortune from the slave trade, both for himself and for the city of Liverpool, where there is a street named after him.

The Leeds-Liverpool canal runs behind the church and crosses this road via an aqueduct.

Built in the late 1820s, the building we see here was Liverpool's fifth Customs & Excise collection building.

In contrast with the western side of the Wirral Peninsula, the towns and villages of the east have become one continuous conurbation because of their proximity to the River Mersey and Liverpool.

Liverpool Council are doing a lot to make it more available to the public. The horse trams in the foreground would run for another decade before electric trams took their place.

Bunney's was the shop for unusual gifts and imported goods from all over the world, which came to Britain via Liverpool Docks.

The Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Heswall was opened in 1911 on a 9-acre site bordering Telegraph Road.

The first boiler-making and shipbuilding yard was built by William Laird, the Liverpool-based Scotsman, in the mid 1820s. In 1829 he launched his first iron ship, a 60-ton lighter for use in Ireland.

In modern Liverpool the ferries are almost as busy as before, but this time with leisure traffic and pleasure trips.

Dale Street is one of Liverpool's original seven streets, and is captured here full of hustle and bustle. The Municipal Building, with its tower and clock face, stands out further up the street.

Its replacement was this column, 60 feet high and bearing the following inscription: 'This column was erected by the trustees of the Liverpool Docks, by the permission of John Shaw Leigh, Esq,

All along Liverpool Road, and to both sides of it, there was tremendous development from the mid 1800s in response to the need to accommodate people coming to work in the new chemical industries in

At one time, it had been cheaper to land Bristol-bound cargoes at Liverpool and send them on by train than to discharge them on Bristol Quay.

From here signals were sent by raising various flags into the port at Liverpool, so that ship owners could be made aware of their vessels' arrival.

That is the Liverpool/Southport electric line, which has stations at Freshfield and Formby.

The parish dates from 1895, when Longton was a small village straggling along the Liverpool Road.

The course of the canal meant that a section of the L&NWR line to Liverpool via Warrington and Speke would have to be re-routed; this resulted in the building of Latchford Viaduct.

The Royal Iris worked the Mersey and Liverpool Bay waters until the 1990s, when she went to Cardiff and was decommissioned.

The church has no accompanying village, for Lord Liverpool, who owned the estate in the 1830s, eventually succeeded in removing the village in the interests of his privacy, rebuilding it near the railway