Bromborough on the Wirral peninsula, conveniently situated for the supply of palm oil imported into Liverpool. By 1861 more than 90 houses had been erected, the majority terraced dwellings, with living room

created the first independent Black republic of Haiti. The International Slavery Museum will be at Liverpool´s Albert Dock, at the centre of a World Heritage site. The location is only yards away from the dry [...] repaired and fitted out. One of the greatest groups of national museums in the world, National Museums Liverpool is ideally placed to elevate this subject onto an international stage. Our existing Transatlantic

The city’s industrial museum is at Armley Mills, located between the River Aire and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. There have been mills on the site since the middle ages, and in 1788 five water wheels provided

The sole remaining first class ticket for the Titanic and the complete log book of a Liverpool slave-trader: these are just two of the treasures to be found in the Maritime Museum. Here within the historic [...] cotton passed through its dockyards on their way to the booming English textile mills. In its turn Liverpool exported a broad selection of British factory goods, sometimes even complete prefabricated houses

Lion steam locomotive built in Leeds in 1838 for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Public transport is represented by vehicles from the Liverpool underground, the overhead railway that served the docks [...] The Museum of Liverpool is one of the group of national museums in the city that includes the International Slavery Museum and the Maritime Museum. It covers topics from prehistoric archaeology to The [...] The Beatles. It opened on the historic waterfront as the Museum of Liverpool Life in 1993 and moved in 2011 to a new building conceived by the Danish architects 3XN. The ground-floor displays focus on the

Prudential architecture, and company offices were built in the same style in other British cities, in Liverpool in 1885 and in Huddersfield in 1898, for example. In 1892 the company reminded Waterhouse that the

head of water provided by the River Bollin and its proximity to the Bridgewater Canal and thus Liverpool. As the Greg enterprise flourished the Mill itself was extended and a working community established

at Horsehay, Shropshire. She began her maiden voyage on 26 July 1845, crossing to New York from Liverpool in 14 days, but her career as an Atlantic passenger line was cut short in 1846 when she ran aground

Cobh en route for the United States. She belonged to the White Star Company, whose office block in Liverpool, a distinguished building designed by Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912) still stands. The story of

(1843-1909) at the starting point of a 109 km aqueduct that supplies drinking water to the city of Liverpool and was completed in 1891. The installations are in harmony with the steep and wooded slopes of

2m. In 1835 the Shrewsbury Canal was joined by a branch from the newly-constructed Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal (whose main line is now known as the Shropshire Union Canal), which provided a link

Office and Wharfmaster´s House at Burnley Wharf by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Displays about the Weavers´ Triangle and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal show how cotton was made and visitors can try their hand [...] The Weavers´ Triangle is a modern name for an area astride the Leeds and Liverpool Canal that was once at the heart of Burnley´s textile industry. The name was first used in the 1970s, as interest developed

Situated on the banks of the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, Wigan Pier is one of the northwest’s favourite visitor attractions. No visit to Wigan Pier would be complete without seeing the Trencherfield Mill Engine [...] from 1907 to the present day. Additional on-site attractions include boat trips along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal, walks in the grounds and a regular programme of events.

trams, including the open-topped 1901 Birkenhead tram 20, the 1920 Wallasey tram 78 or the 1931 Liverpool tram 762.