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

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

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

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

son of a Jewish merchant trading in Liverpool and Hull, and educated privately in a Yorkshire vicarage, he served a six-year apprenticeship in the office of a Liverpool merchant. In 1841 he took charge of

g districts in the Midlands and the North, during which he sketched the locomotive Rocket near Liverpool, explored textile mills in Manchester, and recorded his impression of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale [...] Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft, west of Manchester, alongside the Bridgewater Canal and near the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. In 1839 Nasmyth designed the A-framed steam hammer, with the intention that

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

had been operating on the Blackpool Promenade tramway for five years. The company electrified the Liverpool Overhead railway and by 1894 Thomas was presented with the George Stephenson medal by the Institute

similar trips were organised on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway soon after its opening in 1830. In 1845 Cook organised his first commercial trip from Leicester to Liverpool, for which he produced a 60-page

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

France, the Roșia Montană Mining Landscape in Romania, and the Trans-Iranian Railway . By contrast, Liverpool, one of England's most important maritime trading cities and a pioneer in the development of advanced

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.

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