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Wallasey Dock
Wallasey Dock Impounding Station
Location
LocationBirkenhead, United Kingdom
Coordinates53°24′06″N 3°01′04″W / 53.40167°N 3.01778°W / 53.40167; -3.01778
OS gridSJ322898
Details
OwnerPeel Holdings
Opened1877
Joins
  • East Float (former)

The Wallasey Dock, was a dock at Birkenhead, Wirral Peninsula, England. The dock was accessed via East Float to the west, until Wallasey Dock was filled at the turn of the millennium.

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Wallasey Dock

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The Wallasey Dock, was a dock at Birkenhead, Wirral Peninsula, England. The dock was accessed via East Float to the west, until Wallasey Dock was filled...

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ground now occupied by Wallasey was separated from the rest of Wirral by the creek known as Wallasey Pool (which later became the docks), the marshy areas...

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Great Float

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inlet, the Wallasey Pool. It is split into two large docks, East Float and West Float, both part of the Birkenhead Docks complex. The docks run approximately...

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Bidston Dock

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Poulton. A proposal for the construction of the dock on most of what remained of the tidal inlet of Wallasey Pool was outlined in the 1920s. Consisting of...

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Alfred Dock

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Tower Road, which links Birkenhead with the Seacombe area of Wallasey, divides Alfred Dock from the Great Float via a bascule bridge. This bridge is the...

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Birkenhead Dock Branch

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parallel to Birkenhead North TMD, Wallasey Bridge Road sidings and, adjacent to the Kingsway Tunnel approach road, Bidston Dock sidings. These two sets of sidings...

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Twelve Quays

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adjoining Morpeth Dock, Egerton Dock, Alfred Dock, Wallasey Dock and East Float, as well as quaysides on the River Mersey. Wallasey Dock was infilled in...

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Wallasey Pool

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Wallasey Pool at Poulton was converted into Bidston Dock. By 2003, this dock had been filled in. A new development was approved for Birkenhead docks in...

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Listed buildings in Wallasey

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entrance to Alfred Dock, Wallasey (1259874)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 5 December 2014 Historic England, "Wallasey Water Tower (1258308)"...

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The Kingsway Tunnel (or Wallasey Tunnel) is a toll road tunnel under the River Mersey between Liverpool and Wallasey. The 1.5 mi (2.4 km) tunnel carries...

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Morpeth Dock

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Morpeth Dock is a dock at Birkenhead, Wirral Peninsula, England. The dock is situated between the River Mersey and Egerton Dock. Built between 1844 and...

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Egerton Dock is a dock at Birkenhead, in England. The dock is situated between East Float and Morpeth Dock, within Birkenhead's dock system. The dock was...

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side of the River Mersey and the Birkenhead Docks between Birkenhead and Wallasey on the west side of the river. In 2023, the Port of Liverpool was the UK’s...

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Cammell Laird

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Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders in 2005. Peel Holdings, owners of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and 50% owners of Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders...

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Wirral Waters

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feet (465,000 m2) of modern office space at the East Float and Vittoria Dock. A central part of the early designs were the creation of a series of towers...

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Vittoria Dock

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Vittoria Dock is a dock in Birkenhead, Wirral Peninsula, England. It was built between 1904 and 1908, from land reclaimed during the construction of the...

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Birkenhead dock disaster

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030 The Birkenhead dock disaster was a tragedy that happened when a temporary dam collapsed during construction of the Vittoria Dock in Birkenhead, Wirral...

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Wallasey Town Hall

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Wallasey Town Hall is a municipal building on Brighton Street in Wallasey, Merseyside, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Wirral Council...

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Warship Preservation Trust

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to Birkenhead in 2002 and was moored in the West Float of the Birkenhead docks complex. The fleet consisted of the frigate HMS Plymouth and the submarine...

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Wirral Peninsula

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the Shaw family in 1835. In the mid-19th century docks were established at Birkenhead and in the Wallasey Pool, and continuing development for a wide range...

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Gwynnes Limited

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small to as large as, for example, the three pumps for the large graving dock of the Bombay Port Trust which together moved 8,500,000 gallons of water...

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The Grayson Rollo and Clover shipyard was a ship repair and dry dock facility based at Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula, England. It was situated on...

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based around the core county boroughs of Liverpool, Bootle, Birkenhead and Wallasey. Further areas, including Widnes and Runcorn, were added to the Special...

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Leasowe

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2 mi (3.2 km) to the west of Wallasey. Historically within Cheshire, Leasowe was part of the old County Borough of Wallasey. It is now within the Leasowe...

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Wirral Railway

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Birkenhead) to Hoylake, with a branch from Bidston to Wallasey Bridge Road to serve Birkenhead docks. Parliamentary powers were obtained on 28 July 1863...

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Wallasey power station

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Wallasey power station supplied electricity to the town of Wallasey and the surrounding area from 1897. It was owned and operated by Wallasey Corporation...

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River Mersey

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connecting the city to Birkenhead, and the Kingsway Tunnel, opened in 1971, to Wallasey. A road bridge, completed in 1961 and later named the Silver Jubilee Bridge...

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Queensway Tunnel

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to distinguish it from the newer Kingsway Tunnel (1971), which serves Wallasey and the M53 motorway traffic. At 3.24 kilometres (2.01 mi) in length, it...

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