page_title: Architecture of Liverpool
section_title: Georgian (1714–1837)
hierarchical_section_title: Architecture of Liverpool / Chronology and styles / Georgian (1714–1837)
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: pictureofliverpo00live (find matches) Title: The picture of Liverpool; Year: 1808 (1800s) Authors: Subjects: Publisher: Liverpool, Printed by Jones and Wright, and sold by Woodward and Alderson Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 96 list LIST OF THE PLATES WHICH EMBELLISH THIS WORK,With Directions to the Binder for placing them, I The Plan of the Town, to face the title FAGE&#160;% View of the Old Church from the Parade, 97 3 St. Peters Church 99 4 the Infirmary and Seamans Hofpital 113 5 the Recovery Ward, 119 6 the School for the Blind, 1%7, 7 the Town Hall, 141 8 the Athenaeum and Difpenfary, 145 9 the Union News Room, 147 lo the Lyceum, I50 II the Welch Charity Scho©l, 154 12 the Theatre, 159 13 the Botanic Garden, 173. u Library of CongressBranch Bindery, 1902 ■ ■ ■ Sofia; (llH/flf B H SB Bw 3QAH *-f ■ aoo««pBJ ■ 9 £1 warn HH gam&#160;?;)U: SB ssbhw kh&amp;h Ha I fltHHHBM ESS I ■fi gg Bra (888; IHI S9 ■ I sSbSshb n BSSE ■■■■■ Text Appearing After Image: THE&#160;;gp IHYMM Mofsidr Fei mersey at man WATE1Tpictureofliverpo00live Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The architecture of Liverpool is rooted in the city's development into a major port of the British Empire. It encompasses a variety of architectural styles of the past 300 years, while next to nothing remains of its medieval structures which would have dated back as far as the 13th century. Erected 1716-18, Bluecoat Chambers is supposed to be the oldest surviving building in central Liverpool.
  There are over 2500 listed buildings in Liverpool of which 27 are Grade I and 85 Grade II* listed. It has been described by English Heritage as England's finest Victorian city. However, due to neglect, some of Liverpool's finest listed buildings are on English Heritage's Heritage at Risk register. Though listed buildings are concentrated in the centre, Liverpool has many buildings of interest throughout its suburbs.
  In accordance with Liverpool's role as a trading port, many of its best buildings were erected as headquarters for shipping firms and insurance companies. The wealth thus generated led to the construction of grand civic buildings, designed to allow the local administrators to "run the city with pride".
context_section_description: The expansion of the city into an international seaport from the 17th century onward and the resulting transatlantic trade, particularly in slaves specifically the Triangular trade, ended by the Slave Trade Act 1807, Liverpool's leading abolitionist was William Roscoe. The predicted collapse in trade on the abolition of the slave trade didn't happen, dues from the docks rose from £28,365 in 1801 to £130,911 in 1824. The growth of the cotton industry in Lancashire having a major impact on the growth of Liverpool. In 1715 imports of tobacco were 2 million pounds (weight) and by 1750 6.1 million pounds, For sugar the figure are in 1715 30,000cwt and by 1750 100,000cwt. The growth in trade meant a new larger custom house was needed, this was designed by Thomas Ripley in 1717 opened in 1722. The population of Liverpool rose from about 5,700 in 1700 to 165,000 by 1831. Revolutions in transport, including dock technology, first the growth of canals especially Mersey and Irwell Navigation (1721–34), Douglas Navigation (1720–42), Sankey Canal (1755–57) and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal built (1770–1816) surveyed by James Brindley, the Bridgewater Canal (1761–62) reached via the Leeds and Liverpool and then the railways starting with the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, chief engineer George Stephenson, built (1826–30), would contribute to the growth of the City. When Old Dock was completed in 1715 the tonnage of shipping into the port was 18,800, this grew to 29,100 in 1752 just before Salthouse Dock opened, by the time George's Dock opened in 1771 it was 59,700. By 1800 the figure for shipping using the docks was around 400,000 tons. By 1825 1.2 million tons of goods were passing through the port. This ensured a continuing demand for new docks.
  The docks created during the Georgian period were: under Thomas Steers Dock Engineer (1710–50): Canning Dock in 1737 as a dry dock open to the river. Built under Henry Berry during his tenure as Dock Engineer (1750–89), some were designed by other engineers: Salthouse Dock opened 1753; George's Dock opened 1771; Duke's Dock opened 1773 probably designed by James Brindley; Manchester Dock designer unknown, opened 1785 as a tidal basin open to the river; King's Dock, opened 1785, this catered to the tobacco trade; Queen's Dock, opened 1785, used for the timber trade. Thomas Morris Dock Engineer (1789–99) during his tenure: Chester Basin opened 1795. John Foster Sr. Dock Engineer (1799–1824) consultation involved in 1800 William Jessop and 1809 John Rennie the Elder, dock's built under him were: locks added to the Manchester Dock between 1810 and 1815 to make it a wet dock; Prince's Half-Tide Dock, opened 1810; Prince's Dock, opened 1821. Jesse Hartley dock engineer (1824–60) designed the following docks: Clarence Dock, opened 1830 specifically for the use of steamers; Canning Dock, originally opened 1737 as a dry dock and only became a full wet dock opened 1832 (at the same time Old Dock was filled-in in 1826 and the third custom house built on the site (1828–39) to the design of John Foster Jr. it was bombed in 1941 and the ruins demolished in 1946); Brunswick Half Tide Dock, opened 1832; Brunswick Dock opened 1832 used for the timber trade; Waterloo Dock, opened 1834; Victoria Dock, opened 1836; Trafalgar Dock, opened 1836. The dominant force in Liverpool Architecture from the late 18th century to the 1830s were John Foster Sr. and John Foster Jr. many of their buildings have been demolished, see Demolished Georgian Buildings below for details.
caption: Map of Liverpool 1808
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