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The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

Tarantia' from Glasgow is about to pass under the 72ft 6in high Latchford railway viaduct, which was built to carry the London and North Western Railway line from Manchester via Stockport and Warrington to Liverpool

Great Crosby Mill, Liverpool is a tall brick tower mill with a domed cap. It had four common cloth sails and a fantail.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

The tiny hamlet grew around a paper mill, opened in the 1840s by the Parke family beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

John Askew, who was at one time Liverpool's harbour master, founded the Egremont ferry service. The service finally closed in 1941 after the pier was badly damaged when a ship collided with it.

When this picture was taken, the turbine steamers were usually assigned to the Liverpool-Douglas and Heysham-Douglas services.

Now known as the Shropshire Union Canal, this was originally the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal; it was the last of Thomas Telford's canals, being completed six months after he died.

A Royal Blue coach bound for Liverpool pulls into Market Street. The Cotswold-stone Dorchester Hotel, seen on the extreme left of the photograph, opened in 1947.

The canal was a vital link for Bingley's manufacturers with the port of Liverpool.

The electric street tramway system operated on 3ft 6in gauged track, and opened in 1898, the same year as similar systems in Bradford, Glasgow, Halifax, Liverpool, Stockton, Cork and Kidderminster.

Bricks from Somerleyton were used in building Liverpool Street Station in 1874.

One hundred years earlier Runcorn was already linked to Liverpool by a steam river packet service which operated two sailings every day from George's Dock.

In World War II the castle was the HQ for Pluto - Pipe Line Under The Ocean - an operation which ran fuel from Liverpool through Wales and across the Bristol Channel and eventually supplied the fleet

New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.

Among the daily services were those to Glasgow (18 hours; the fare was 15s), Liverpool (fares 7s and 13s 6d) and Holyhead.

This was followed by the Liverpool-to-Crewe line, and then south to London's Euston.

In that year the paddle ferry 'Etna' began a regular service between Queen's Dock, Liverpool and Tranmere.

The elaborate stone and marble reredos is by J D Wyatt, 1875, and the window is by Forest and Bradley of Liverpool, 1886.

This huge 19th-century dam, a monument to the engineering brilliance of the Victorian age, combines its functional role as a water supply for Liverpool with a touch of architectural genius.

When Victoria University broke up in 1904, Leeds was left by far the poor relation, unable to match the financial input enjoyed by Manchester and Liverpool.

Designed by Capt John Kitson, Royal Engineers, Fort Perch Rock was built between 1826 and 1829 at a cost of £27,000 to defend the seaward approach to Liverpool and the Mersey.

This busy scene shows yachts being rigged ready to sail and others with their sails full as their occupants enjoy the fresh sea air of Liverpool Bay.

Rhyl is famous for its great windy expanse of beach facing Liverpool Bay.