Liverpool - Mersey - Old Engraving

Liverpool from the Mersey 1829

This is one a series of images drawn from the River Mersey which capture a bygone Liverpool.

The original engraving included this comment:  "Commencing at the Ship-Building yards, and ending at the Herculaneum Pottery."

Liverpool built its own ships for 200 years.  Canadian shipbuilders, with their ample supply of wood, soon overshadowed their output, so many Liverpool merchants had Canadian ships.    The need for dock space on the Liverpool coastline eventually pushed shipbuilders over the river to the Birkenhead side where shipbuilding continues to this day.   The last large Liverpool ship was built in 1899.  

The Herculaneum Pottery was established in 1793 and continued to trade until 1841. They had a group of about forty potters and named their little settlement Herculaneum after the Italian city which, like Pompeii, was destroyed by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

Drawn by S.Austin, Esq.  & Robt Wallis, Direxit

Published by Fisher Son & Co., London 1829.

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