Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Fireproof iron-and-brick warehouse dock where ships unloaded straight into the stores above.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Royal Albert Dock in Liverpool is about the working quay: the ships that tied up beneath the warehouses and the daily job of getting cargo out of their holds. It touches the engineer Jesse Hartley and his fire tests, a new hoist that reporters came to watch in eighteen forty-eight, and the dock masters' families who lived a short walk from the gates. Best heard at the quay edge, under the iron columns.
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