From 1767, a tidal basin in the area that would become the dock was used for unloading copper for a smelting works.[1] Between 1794 and 1841 it was the site of a pottery. In 1864, a new dock designed by George Fosbery Lyster was blasted from the foreshore, providing two graving docks. This dock opened in 1866.[2] Ten years later, a third graving dock was added.[3]
Beginning in 1873, the dock handled petroleum. In 1878, specialist casemates were built to store this and other volatile cargo within the sandstone cliffs above. The dock continued in this capacity until the task of oil handling was transferred across the river to Tranmere Oil Terminal and Stanlow Oil Refinery. During 1881 the dock facility was enlarged further and a fourth graving dock was constructed in 1902.[3]
Herculaneum Dock was formerly served by its own station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. The station (and railway) closed on 30 December 1956. By 1958 demolition of the station had been completed.[4]
In 1972, Herculaneum Dock closed[2] being filled in during the 1980s to create a car park.
After closureedit
The area south of the dock contained a tank farm; this was reclaimed for the Liverpool Garden Festival and residential properties.
In 2004, the site was bought by national property developer David McLean Homes and a riverside residential development, called City Quay, Liverpool was built on the dock.
Since the closing of Herculaneum Dock, what was the main dock area is now a car park and where the graving docks were are now office buildings. The map of 1901 shows the entrance to the dock with the letter 'L'. A restaurant has since been built on this.
View north along the oil casemates, which are Grade II listed
Referencesedit
^. Liverpool History Online. Archived from the original on 16 January 2009.
^ abDuffy, Tom (9 May 2014). "Tower block planned for Herculaneum dock". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
^ abc. Liverpool Museums. Archived from the original on 7 September 2009. Retrieved 24 March 2008.
^"Station Name: Herculaneum Dock (2nd)". Disused Stations. Retrieved 30 August 2016.
Further readingedit
McCarron, Ken; Jarvis, Adrian (1992). Give a Dock a Good Name?. Birkenhead: Merseyside Port Folios. pp. 50–52. ISBN9780951612941. OCLC 27770301.
Muir, Ramsay (1913). Bygone Liverpool. Liverpool: Henry Young and Sons. p. 68. OCLC 1164289.
External linksedit
. Archived from the original on 7 January 2009.
Site of Herculaneum Dock aerial photo
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December 15, 2023
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