cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis claimed victims and life expectancy fell: in the port city of Liverpool by 1840 it was 17 years - 10 years below the English national average. Not only Friedrich Engels

first European skyscraper was erected by the Royal Liver Insurance Company in 1909 in the port of Liverpool. The next step was taken in the 1920s by the engineer Eugène Freyssinet: he had the steel cables

increasingly concentrated in factories where the fibres were not only spun but also woven. The port of Liverpool with its important stock exchange, and the expanding industrial city of Manchester made the county

than any other nation. In addition to London, the port cities of Bristol and Liverpool now also became rich. For Liverpool, there is evidence of investment from the proceeds of the slave trade in the nearby [...] Stephenson in Newcastle, who then built the first long-distance line between Manchester and the port of Liverpool: the main artery of the textile industry, through which steadily growing quantities of Indian cotton [...] The first scheduled steamship connection with North America was established by Samuel Cunard in Liverpool in 1840, and the first all-iron passenger ship was launched in Bristol shortly afterwards: the "Great

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

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

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

other projects were never completed but he built the first floating landing stage at the port of Liverpool and he was employed to dig a tunnel beneath the tidal estuary of the Thames. The project had already

Elswick on the western side of Newcastle in 1847.Early products included hoists for the docks at Liverpool, underground engines for coal mines, and machinery for lead mines and dressing plants in Co Durham

evolved during the industrial revolution from precursors in the Middle Ages. However, Stephenson’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened in 1830 is considered the first modern main-line railway because it [...] to design railways all over Britain. The most important were the Grand Junction connecting his Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Birmingham, and the North Midland Railway connecting the midlands to Yorkshire

1827 he met the locomotive pioneer Richard Trevithick . The proposers of the new railway between Liverpool and Manchester were debating whether to use stationary haulage engines or locomotives. Trials were [...] works and grew to employ 1,500 people. After helping his father with the civil engineering of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Robert became the engineer for many important routes during the ‘railway mania’

docks on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Liverpool. Brassey met George Stephenson who was seeking stone for the Sankey Viaduct on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, and Stephenson encouraged him

process was copied by industrialists in the north of England, first near Newcastle and later near Liverpool: regions where sea salt and coal were readily available. By 1880, 120 works in Britain used it.

the care of the National Trust. Hannah was born in 1766 into the Lightbody family of merchants at Liverpool who were religious nonconformists with strong interests in social conditions. Her father died when [...] campaigner for the rights of women, Mary Wollstonecraft. She met Samuel Greg after she returned to Liverpool. They married in 1789. Samuel was a successful cotton merchant and had built the Quarry Bank factory

Canal of Ireland. His maritime projects included commercial docks and harbours in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Hull and Glasgow and the Royal Navy dockyard at Woolwich. He also designed the stone breakwater

innovatory suspension bridge over the Menai Straits opened in 1826. He designed the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal (now called the Shropshire Union) followed a straight course over embankments and

first large screw-propelled iron ship, that was built in Bristol and made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern

his business was with his bother Julius who took over the De Jersey company and opened offices in Liverpool and New York. He founded over a hundred separate textile operations, for weaving, dyeing and printing

returned to England, working at first with Jesse Hartley (1780-1860) on the building of docks in Liverpool. In 1845 he became chief engineer to the Manchester & Leeds Railway, and the worked for the Lancashire