From the engraving of St. Nicholas' Church, Chapel Street, Liverpool, 1829.
Today St. Nicholas Church is landlocked, but this engraving illustrates how the docks once stood immediately outside its front door. It truly was the Seaman's church as thousands of Sailors and emigrants would attend church here for the last time before setting out on their adventures around the world.
The majority of the nine million emigrants who emigrated from Liverpool left from St. George's Dock and Basin which stood in front of St. Nicholas. The Royal Liver Building, The Cunard Building, and the Port Of Liverpool building now occupy the site of the old Dock. The only hint of its existence is the name of the road: George's Dock Gates.
Drawn by G & C. Pyne. Engraved by H. Jorden. Published by Fisher, Son & Co., London, 1829
The engraving is dedicated to 'The Rectors The Rev. R. H. Roughsedge, M.A. and the Rev. Samuel Renshaw, M.A.'
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