The George's Basin was a dock on the River Mersey, England, within the Port of Liverpool. The basin surface covered 3 acres (1.2 ha) and was surrounded by George's Dock to the south, Prince's Dock to the north and the Mersey to the west.
Used as a berth for commercial shipping and as a dry dock for vessel repairs, the mouth of the basin was sealable with floodgates.
The basin was filled in 1874. In 1899, the adjoining George's Dock was filled in and the site was used to create what is now the Pier Head. This provided one central place for Liverpool Docks' offices, which had been scattered across different sites.
By March 2009 work was completed on a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on the site of the former basin. The canal extension provides a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway.
References
- Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1856), A Gazetteer of the World, A. Fullarton, p. 764, available at Google Books
- The Annual Register, or a view of the History, Politics and Literature of the year 1836, J.G. & F. Rivington, London, 1837, p. 16, available at Google Books
- McCarron & Jarvis 1992, p. 40
- Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks, Liverpool Museums, archived from the original on 28 October 2008, retrieved 16 September 2008
- Liverpool Canal Link, March 2009 (Page 2: Pier Head), Pennine Waterways, archived from the original on 27 November 2010, retrieved 7 July 2009
- New canal link to boost tourism, BBC News, 25 March 2009, retrieved 7 July 2009
- Liverpool Canal Link: The Scheme, British Waterways, archived from the original on 28 July 2009, retrieved 7 July 2009
Sources
- McCarron, Ken; Jarvis, Adrian (1992). Give a Dock a Good Name?. Birkenhead: Merseyside Port Folios. ISBN 9780951612941. OCLC 27770301.
External links
- "Liverpool North Docks diagram". Archived from the original on 6 January 2009.
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