George's Basin

The George's Basin was a dock on the River Mersey, England, within the Port of Liverpool. The basin surface covered 3 acres (1.2 ha)[1] and was surrounded by George's Dock to the south, Prince's Dock to the north and the Mersey to the west.

Used as a berth for commercial shipping and as a dry dock for vessel repairs, the mouth of the basin was sealable with floodgates.[2]

The basin was filled in 1874.[3] In 1899, the adjoining George's Dock was filled in and the site was used to create what is now the Pier Head.[4] This provided one central place for Liverpool Docks' offices, which had been scattered across different sites.

By March 2009 work was completed[5][6] on a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal on the site of the former basin. The canal extension provides a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway.[7]

References
  1. Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1856), A Gazetteer of the World, A. Fullarton, p. 764, available at Google Books
  2. The Annual Register, or a view of the History, Politics and Literature of the year 1836, J.G. & F. Rivington, London, 1837, p. 16, available at Google Books
  3. McCarron & Jarvis 1992, p. 40
  4. Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks, Liverpool Museums, archived from the original on 28 October 2008, retrieved 16 September 2008
  5. Liverpool Canal Link, March 2009 (Page 2: Pier Head), Pennine Waterways, archived from the original on 27 November 2010, retrieved 7 July 2009
  6. New canal link to boost tourism, BBC News, 25 March 2009, retrieved 7 July 2009
  7. Liverpool Canal Link: The Scheme, British Waterways, archived from the original on 28 July 2009, retrieved 7 July 2009

Sources
  • McCarron, Ken; Jarvis, Adrian (1992). Give a Dock a Good Name?. Birkenhead: Merseyside Port Folios. ISBN 9780951612941. OCLC 27770301.


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