The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-02 00:00:00

PLAN OF THE PROPOSED NORTH DOCKS,
AND COMMUNICATION WITH TIIE LEEDS AND LIVERPOOL CANAL.

In the present interesting stage of the question now
Pending, with respect to the proposed application to pa,
liament for power to construct new docks north and south
of the present dock estate, every information, relative to
the particular plans which are in agitation, must be in-
teresting to the public. We have therefore procured, at
considerable pains and expense, and we have now the
pleasure of presenting to our readers, a copy of this plan,
as deposited in the office of the clerk of the peace at Pres-
ton, pursuant to the standing orders of the House of
Commons. The scale upon the original, we may remark,
was one of two hundred feet per inch. This we have had
correctly reduced one-half, viz , to four hundred feet per
inch; and our readers can therefore ascertain for them-
selves any particulars as to amount of quay room, &c.,
with which they may wish to he furnished.
The most important feature in the scheme is, perhaps,
the proposed construction of a chain of small docks, con-
necting the river with the canal, and, by means of locks,
enabling vessels under 300 tons burthen to ascend to the
latter, for the purposes of loading and discharging. By
the crrrying out of this portion of the plan, the feasibility
of which is very apparent, the streets of the town will be
relieved of a great quantity of the cartage of merchan-
dise, produce, &c., proceeding to and from the manufac-
turing districts of Yorkshire, and the advantages of Li-
verpool, as the port of supply for these districts, be vastly
increased. The water for the supply of these docks, and
the working of the necessary locks, can be had in suffi-
cient abundance from the canal, whose waste is now con-
veyed to the Mersey by a tunnel crossing Great Howard-
street, which, it may be remembered, was opened tempo-
rarily, to procure a supply fur tie extinction of the great

I fire in that neighbourhood in 1312. It is contemplated,
-in addition, that private individuals—carriers and others
—may be permitted to form small docks b, fond the ca-
nal for their own trades, extending, if necessary, as far
as Vauxhall .road.
Of course, it cannot be predicted that the whole plan
will be executed precisely as here laid down. Some por-
tions of it—as the graving docks to the northward—are
perhaps given more to show the capabilities of the scheme
than the exact direction in which these are to be ulti-
mately developed It must be admitted that, by the ex-
tension of the river wall marked out, a vast quantity of
increased dock space may be secured, and that the port
need not in future to labour under any destitution of
those most important adjuncts to its prosperity—graving
docks—which may be made, to almost any extent, and at
a cheap rate, communicating with the enclosed outer basin.
The amount of water space, as we have roughly calcu-
lated it from the plan, is as follows, viz.—
Sq. Yards. A. r.. P.
Enclosed Outer Basin :36R84 .. 7 219
New Steam Dock 72888 15 0 9
River Craft and Coasters' Dock 16805 3 1 19
Proposed Chain of Small Docks,
numbered 1 to 4, viz
No. I, ..
6250 .. 1 1 6
„ 2, ..................... 6950 1 1 6
3,........ 6250 1 I 6
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4, • ..............
In all say :31 acres of water space, an addition to our ex-
isting docks which must materially advance the com-
merce of the town, by promoting the con; enieace of its
shipping,

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