page_title: Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City
section_title: The Albert Dock
hierarchical_section_title: Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City / Locations / The Albert Dock
caption_attribution_description: Liverpool's Albert Dock. Three Graces on left of image. Panorama of 27 images created using PTGui. Images taken on a Canon EOS 20D with Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens.
context_page_description: The Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site in Liverpool, England. It comprises six locations in the city centre of Liverpool including the Pier Head, Albert Dock and William Brown Street, and includes many of the city's most famous landmarks.
  UNESCO received the city council's nomination for the six sites in January 2003 and in September of that year sent ICOMOS representatives to carry out an evaluation on the eligibility for these areas to be given World Heritage Status. In March 2004 ICOMOS recommended that UNESCO inscribe the Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City as a World Heritage Site.
  The area was inscribed during the 28th session of the World Heritage Committee in 2004 under cultural criteria ii, iii and iv. Its inclusion by UNESCO was attributed to the fact that it was 'the supreme example of a commercial port at a time of Britain's greatest global influence'.
  In 2012, the site was inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger due to the proposed construction of Liverpool Waters project.
context_section_description: The Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses located to the south of the Pier Head. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick and opened in 1846, the Albert Dock warehouses were the first in the world to be entirely fireproof, due to their construction from only iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. The dock was home to many advances in docking technology including being the first to have hydraulic cranes. During World War II the buildings suffered significant damage and general docking decline in the city after the end of the war saw them fall rapidly into disrepair. In the 1980s the area underwent massive regeneration after the creation of the Merseyside Development Corporation and the complex was reopened to the public in 1984, as part of the tall ships festival. Today they form a focal point for tourism in the city, being home to Tate Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum and The Beatles Story. They also constitute the largest single collection of Grade I listed buildings anywhere in the UK.
  Listed Buildings
  Albert Dock Warehouses:
  Warehouse A - Atlantic Pavilion (Grade I)
  Warehouse B - Britannia Pavilion (Grade I)
  Warehouse C - The Colonnades (Grade I)
  Warehouse D - Merseyside Maritime Museum (Grade I)
  Warehouse E - Edward Pavilion (Grade I)
  Dock Traffic Office (Grade I)
  Wapping Warehouse (Grade II*)
  Hydraulic Pumping Station East (Grade II)
  The Pier Master's House (Grade II)
  Canning Dock (Grade II)
  Canning Half-Tide Dock Retaining Walls (Grade II)
  Canning Graving Dock (Grade II)
  Cooperage (Grade II)
  Dock Master's Office (Grade II)
  Canning Island Sea Walls (Grade II)
  Gate piers to Albert Dock (Grade II)
  Three Gatemen's Huts at the entrance to Canning Dock (Grade II)
  Pumping Station, Mann Island (Grade II)
  Salthouse Dock (Grade II)
  Dukes Dock (Grade II)
  Albert Dock Sea Walls (Grade II)
  The Hartley Bridge (Grade II)
  The Rennie Bridge (Grade II)
  Hydraulic Tower at Wapping Dock (Grade II)
  Gatekeeper's Lodge at entrance to Wapping Dock (Grade II)
  Wapping Basin (Grade II)
caption: A panoramic view of the Albert Dock.
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