Duke's Dock, Liverpool: the long narrow basin with Duke's Grain Warehouse in the background
Artist/Photographer | de Mare, Eric (1910-2002) |
Country | UK: England |
City | Liverpool |
Subject Date | 1811 |
Image Date | 1956 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Georgian |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP96/80 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Architectural Press Archive / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Warehouses ; Eric de Maré: Canals ; Boats ; Canals ; Docks ; Reflections |
NOTES: Francis Egerton, the third and last Duke of Bridgewater, commissioned James Brindley to build Duke's Dock as a general terminal warehouse for the unloading of the canal barges from the Bridgewater Canal near the centre of Liverpool. It opened in 1773 and was further extended in the 1790s.
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