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Title: The Artizan
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Artizan club (London, England)
Subjects: Technology Industrial arts
Publisher: (London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ipping interestof this place, since he foreshadows the possibility, or rather the proba-bility, of such :ni increase of trade as would necessitate an extension ofdock accommodation at Liverpool, in spite of anything that might bedone at Birkenhead. This report runs as follows:— Wallasey pool, from its great capacity and admirable position, oilers advantages for tho extension of shipping accommodation in the port of Liverpool of a very Commanding position—not in the thape of rivalry » \fieent docks now in hereafter to be made, but as affording those adjunct coayenienoea which the want of Bpaoe and Datura) facilities make unattainable in any other loealii y within t be port. The area of Wallasey pool, within its headlands—viz., Searombe Pointon the north, and IVoodeide Poiol 00 the south—is about 3 10 acres. The ide for this inquiry show that the entire creek once formed a deep low water lake, bill, lil.e all similar lakes HI such localities, when 25 THE ARTIZAN , SEP? Ist 1865
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WSmuh 194 Mersey Docks and Harhour. (The Abtizak, I Sept. 1, 1865. left in their natural state, it has become silted up, and will be entirelylost if not made available to shipping and maintained by adequate funds. -The accompanying design will show that I propose to coustruct a wall - cfiong the low water margin of the river Mersey, from Seacombe Point • to the head of Woodside ferry pier. This wall, practically speaking, will be parallel with the opposite defence v,-all of the Liverpool Docks. It will, consequently, have the effect of giving a truer current than now . exists to the flood and ebb tides in their passage through this part of the harbour; probably, therefore, it will be the means of deepening the , channel on the Liverpool shore, and certainly it will prevent the further increase of Pluckington Bank northward. About the middle of the wall I propose to leave an opening of 300ft.-wide as an entrance to a basin of upwards of thirty-seven acres area, ex-cavated to a depth

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