Port of Liverpool Building
Domed Edwardian harbour-board headquarters on a filled-in dock, with mermaid-and-dolphin iron gates.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Port of Liverpool Building starts not with ships but with swimmers, in the public baths that opened at St George's Pier Head in the late eighteen-twenties. It follows a council that built a bathhouse it had no legal power to run, and a ship-shaped floating bath moored off the same waterfront. Listen from the river side, near the cast-iron gates.
This audio guide was created using AI.
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