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 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

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

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

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

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

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’

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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