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By the 18th century, Ormskirk was already an important agricultural and market town, but with the arrival of the railway in 1849 it rapidly developed as an attractive residential area for Liverpool's prosperous

Though the Morpeth and Egerton Docks were completed in the 1840s, work on the Great Float was not started until Birkenhead and Liverpool Docks were merged under the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board.

The spire to the left of New Brighton Tower belonged to the Liverpool Home for Aged Mariners, but like the tower, it too has gone.

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber

The now-demolished Exchange overlooks a courtyard, known as Exchange Flags, where Liverpool's merchants used to meet to conduct their business.

Its opening in 1848 encouraged the development of the town and an expansion of the nearby quarries, whose fine stone was taken to build Liverpool Docks and the Harris Gallery at Preston.

On 3 January 1891, the 'Manchester', a steamship belonging to a rival company, left Belfast for Liverpool. One hour later the 'Dynamic' sailed from Prince's Dock, also bound for Liverpool. Her

Built in 1914, it mirrors the outline which Scott used again when designing the central tower of Liverpool Cathedral.

James Knott founded Port Line in 1894, offering a direct service to Alexandria, which was in direct competition with the Liverpool- based Moss Line.

On the left is the City Floating Bath, not as unusual as you might at first think: there was a floating bath at Liverpool in the early 1820s.

The murderer William Chadwick was tracked down and eventually stood trial at Liverpool Assizes. He was hanged in April 1890. Dominating our picture is St John the Baptist Church.

The landing stage was built for steamers to Liverpool and Holyhead.

True to its name, it is on the former Roman road which linked Derby and Chesterfield, and its solidly-built parish church looks like a miniature Liverpool Cathedral.

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal climbs out of Yorkshire into the Pennines. After these three locks at Greenberfield, there is a short summit and a tunnel before the canal descends into Lancashire.

Nearby are the famous Ness Botanic Gardens, maintained by the University of Liverpool

On the other side of the quay were the mooring points for the ferries plying to Glasgow, Liverpool, Heysham and Fleetwood.

Here a paddle steamer approaches the pier, one of many vessels plying the coastal waters between Bangor and Liverpool.

The village of Halsall is situated near to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The village once had its own grammar school; the building is now the choir vestry of St Cuthbert's.

Some 200,000 people gathered to watch the event - and 80,000 of those celebrated with a 'tunnel walk' through from Liverpool to Birkenhead. Presumably they also walked back.

Just a few minutes walk from here, the Leeds & Liverpool Canal links up with the River Aire and the Aire & Calder Navigation, providing Leeds with an inland waterway from the Mersey to the Humber.

Stone for the building was cut on site by machinery brought to the estate by way of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The timber came from the Haigh and from Crawford's estates in Jamaica.

Described as a 'neo-Gothic monstrosity', Wray Castle was built for the eccentric Liverpool surgeon, James Dawson, in 1840–47.

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

The ornate building with the crowning clock tower is Birkenhead Town Hall, designed by C O Ellison & Son of Liverpool. Its foundation stone was laid in 1883, and the building opened in 1887.