Herculaneum Dock

Herculaneum Dock

Herculaneum Dock was part of the Port of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. It was situated at the southern end of the Liverpool dock system, on the River Mersey. To the north it was connected to Harrington Dock. The dock was named after the Herculaneum Pottery Company that had occupied the site before.

From 1767, a tidal basin in the area that would become the dock was used for unloading. In 1864, a new dock designed by George Fosbery Lyster was blasted from the foreshore, providing two graving docks. This dock opened in 1866. Ten years later, a third graving dock was added.citeweb|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history12.html|title=Trading Places: Herculaneum Dock History|work=Liverpool Museums|accessdate=24 March|accessyear=2008]

Beginning in 1873, the dock handled petroleum. In 1878, specialist casemates were built to store this and other volatile cargo within the sandstone cliffs above. The dock continued in this capacity until the task of oil handling was transferred across the river to Tranmere Oil Terminal and Stanlow Oil Refinery. During 1881 the dock facility was enlarged further and a fourth graving dock was constructed in 1902.

Liverpool remained an important port during the Second World War, with Herculaneum Dock acting as a terminus for the North Atlantic Convoys.

Herculaneum Dock was formerly served by its own station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway. The station (and railway) closed on 30 December 1956.

In 1972, Herculaneum Dock closed and was filled in during the 1980s. The area south of the dock contained a tank farm; this was reclaimed for the Liverpool Garden Festival and residential properties.

In 2004, the site was bought by national property developer David McLean Homes and a riverside residential development, called City Quay, Liverpool was built on the dock.

References

External links

* [http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2a.htm Liverpool South Docks map]
* [http://www.gwpda.org/naval/dkbkpl30.jpgHerculaneum Dock historical map]
* [http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.cgi?client=public&X=335433&Y=387596&width=700&height=410&gride=&gridn=&srec=0&coordsys=gb&db=pc&pc=&zm=0&scale=5000&down.x=288&down.y=4 MultiMap aerial photo]
* [http://www.davidmcleanhomes.co.uk/ Website of developer David McLean Homes, including information on the current development on the dock]


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