Liverpool

Liverpool Slave Ship

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Model of a Liverpool slave ship, ca. 1780. International Slavery Museum. IMG_2405

Extent of the Slave Trade

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International Slavery Museum. IMG_2407

William IV

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Figurehead depicting King William IV from HMV Indefatigable, ca. 1848. Merseyside Maritime Museum. IMG_2468

Cunard Line

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Cunard Line logo. Cunard 175 exhibit. Merseyside Maritime Museum. DSC_1037

Compound Engine

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Compound engine from paddle-driven steam yacht Firefly II, 1900. Builders of the Great Ships exhibit. Merseyside Maritime Museum. DSC_1038

Life Ring from RMS Lusitania

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Life ring from RMS Lusitania. Artifact of the May 7, 1915 sinking. Lusitania, Life, Loss, Legacy exhibit. Merseyside Maritime Museum. DSC_1040p1

Soup Bowl

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Ormond pattern soup bowl made in 1906 for use aboard Lusitania and Mauritania. Vintage Cunard soup plate. Cunard 175 exhibit. Merseyside Maritime Museum. IMG_2432

Deck Chair from RMS Lusitania

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Deck chair from RMS Lusitania. Artifact of the May 7, 1915 sinking. Lusitania, Life, Loss, Legacy exhibit. Merseyside Maritime Museum. IMG_2440

Emigrant Figure

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Emigrants to a New World exhibit. Merseyside Maritime Museum. DSC_1042p1

BLT Sandwich

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BLT Sandwich served at the Merseyside Maritime Museum café IMG_2464

Atlantic Pavilion

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Albert Dock. Warehouse A, the Atlantic Pavilion. "Former warehouse to south end of east side of dock. 1841-5. J Hartley. Iron frame and brick with stone dressings, iron clad roof. 5 storeys, 17 bays, with 7 x 3-bay recess; facade to dock has recessed ground floor with Doric colonnade of iron columns above rubble granite dock wall. Rusticated quoins and parapet. Segmental-headed windows, those to east are mostly blind. War damage at north end remains unrepaired, revealing structure. Albert Dock is one of the earliest enclosed docks in the world and is a complete example of the type". Grade I listed building. List entry Number: 1205175. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage site. DSC_1060p1

Atlantic Pavilion

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Warehouse A, Atlantic Pavilion. Albert Dock. "Former warehouse to south end of east side of dock. 1841-5. J Hartley. Iron frame and brick with stone dressings, iron clad roof. 5 storeys, 17 bays, with 7 x 3-bay recess; facade to dock has recessed ground floor with Doric colonnade of iron columns above rubble granite dock wall. Rusticated quoins and parapet. Segmental-headed windows, those to east are mostly blind. War damage at north end remains unrepaired, revealing structure. Albert Dock is one of the earliest enclosed docks in the world and is a complete example of the type". Grade I listed building. List entry Number: 1280847. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage site. DSC_1069

Beatles Story

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The Beatles Story sign at Albert Dock. A museum about the Beatles in their home town. IMG_2473

Beatles Story

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The Beatles Story at Albert Dock. A museum about the Beatles in their home town. Note the staff member in Sgt. Pepper attire. DSC_1071

Edward Pavilion

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Albert Dock. Warehouse D and Warehouse E, the Edward Pavilion. Adaptive reuse as the Merseyside Maritime Museum and International Slavery Museum. Former warehouse to east end of north side of dock. 1841-5. J Hartley. Iron frame and brick with stone dressings, iron clad roof. 5 storeys, 17 x 9 bays. Quoins and parapet. Dock facade has ground floor recessed behind Doric colonnade of iron columns above granite rubble. Windows are segmental-headed. Albert Dock is one of the earliest enclosed docks in the world and is a complete example of the type". Grade I listed building. List entry Number: 1280847. Grade I listed building. List entry Number: 1068410. "The Albert Dock differs from moat of the Liverpool docke in being completely surrounded with warehouses (as in London)".--Baedeker Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage site. DSC_1072

Buffer Stop

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Buffer stop (bumping post) at the Albert Docks. This buffer and another are on disused trackage of the Hartley Quay Dock Railway in Hartley Quay. DSC_1068

Steam Omnibus

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1902 Thornycroft steam powered double-deck omnibus. Operated by London Road Car Co. in March-May 1902. Adaptive reuse as an ice cream stand at the Albert Dock. DSC_1019

Canning Dock

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Canning graving docks. Built between 1765 and 1769. The docks houses the Merseyside maritime Museum ship exhibits. The pilot ship Edmond Garner is pained in dazzle camouflage of World War I. DSC_1064

Canning Half Tide Dock

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Canning Half Tide Dock. Hydraulic Pumping Station to East of Canning Half-Tide Dock. Pumps were fitted to the graving docks in 1829 so that they could be emptied even when the wet dock is full. Adaptive reuse as The Pump House Public House. "Former Hydraulic Engine house, accumulator tower and chimney,1870s. Brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Engine house has gable with louvre. Round chimney on square base has machicolated cap to north. Lower part of accumulator tower to south". Grade II listed building. List entry Number: 1280849. Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City UNESCO World Heritage site. DSC_1083

Sir Alfred Lewis Jones

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Memorial to Sir Alfred Lewis Jones. Sir Alfred Lewis Jones (1845-1909) was a Liverpool shipbuilder and entrepreneur. Pier Head. "Monument. 1913. Stone plinth, square stone pedestal with bronze bust in laurel wreath, and bronze allegorical figures at base (fruits of industry, research and enterprise). Standing crowned female figure on top". Grade II listed building. List entry Number: 1068225. DSC_1110

Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas

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Church of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas. Old Churchyard, Chapel Street. "Church. Tower is now the oldest part, built 1811-15 by Thomas Harrison of Chester, ashlar in Decorated Gothic style, 4 angle buttresses terminating in crocketed finials, with flying buttress supporting a graceful open lantern, which is surmounted by a ship weather vane. The rest of the church is 1952 by Edward C Butler, after war damage, in Perpendicular Gothic". "...the church of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of mariners. This church was the first founded in Liverpool, of which it was the original parish-church; the present building, however, dates only from the 18th cent., while the tower, with its lantern, was erected in 1815 on the fall of an older one".--Baedeker Grade II listed building. List entry Number: 1205993. My great-great-grandparents, Joseph Barlow and Nancy Hewitt, were married here in 1853. My great-great-great-grandmother, Sarah Youds, was baptised here in 1807. DSC_1113