Prince's Dock, Liverpool#Redevelopment
{{short description|Dock on the River Mersey, England}}
{{Other uses|Princes Dock (disambiguation)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2017}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2017}}
{{Infobox docks
| name = Prince's Dock
| image = Princes Dock, Liverpool, 231009.JPG
| caption = Prince's Dock, Liverpool Waterfront
| location = Liverpool, United Kingdom
| coordinates = {{coord|53|24|32|N|2|59|56|W|display=title, inline|region:GB-LIV_type:landmark}}
| grid_ref_UK = SJ336908
| owner = The Peel Group{{cite web|url=https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/refresh/media/thumbnail/26435-2016-skippers-guide.pdf|title=Liverpool Canal Link Skipper's Guide 2016|work=Canal & River Trust|page=3|access-date=4 September 2016}}
| operator = Mersey Docks and Harbour Company
| opened = 1821{{harvnb|Ashmore|1982|p=163}}
| type = Wet dock
| joins = {{ubl|Prince's Half-Tide Dock|Liverpool Canal Link to Canning Dock}}
| area = {{convert|11|acre|ha|abbr=on}}, {{convert|3889|sqyd|m2|abbr=on}}{{harvnb|Baines|1859|loc=Part II, p. 116}}
| width_entrance = {{convert|45|ft|m|abbr=on}}
| quay_length = {{convert|1613|yd|m|abbr=on}}
}}
Prince's DockAlthough many texts give the name without an apostrophe as Princes Dock, this is an incorrect plural form. The dock is named for one prince; the Prince Regent, only.{{cite web|url=http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16&lat=53.4095&lon=-3.0016&layers=6&b=1|title=Great Britain: OS Six Inch, 1888-1913|work=National Library of Scotland|access-date=12 October 2016}} is a dock on the River Mersey, England, and part of the Port of Liverpool. It is the most southerly of the docks situated in the northern part of the Liverpool dock system, connected to Prince's Half-Tide Dock to the north. The dock is now in the buffer zone to one of Liverpool's World Heritage Sites.
History
Initially, William Jessop and John Rennie were consulted about the plans for the dock.{{harvnb|Pollard|Pevsner|2006|p=277}} The dock was built by John Foster, with construction starting around 1810. During the construction, Foster ordered many times more stone than was needed. Allegedly, Foster diverted it to his family's building company. He resigned when this was discovered.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
File:Princes Dock Liverpool opening 1821.png
The dock was named for the Prince Regent.{{harvnb|McCarron|Jarvis|1992|pp=71–73}} Still unfinished, it opened on the day of the Prince Regent's coronation as George IV on 19 July 1821. Access to the southern half of the dock system was via George's Basin, George's Dock and into Canning Dock.
In 1865, the Mimosa set sail from Liverpool, containing 153 Welsh settlers destined for Patagonia. It is currently thought that around 50,000 people in Patagonia today have Welsh heritage from the group of 153 settlers. A monument to the settlers was unveiled at Prince's Dock in 2015.{{cite web|title=Memorial for Patagonia pioneers|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-32942909|website=BBC News|access-date=21 September 2017|date=31 May 2015}}
In 1874 George's Basin was filled,{{harvnb|McCarron|Jarvis|1992|p=40}} and in 1899 George's Dock was filled and the site used to create what is now the Pier Head.{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/theme10.html#geo|title=Trading Places: A History of Liverpool Docks|publisher=Liverpool Museums|access-date=20 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028185038/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/theme10.html#geo|archive-date=28 October 2008}}
On 12 June 1895 Liverpool Riverside Station was opened, situated between Prince's Dock and the River Mersey.
In 1968 B&I Line (operator of the Liverpool - Dublin service) commenced a new car ferry service from Carriers' Dock further downriver. A passenger only service continued to use Prince's Dock until 1969.
Ferry services from Prince's Dock finally ended in November 1981 when P&O Ferries closed their Liverpool - Belfast overnight service. The dock subsequently closed to shipping and was partly filled.{{citation|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history6.html | title=Trading Places: Princes Dock History|publisher=Liverpool Museums|access-date=7 January 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081028185033/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history6.html|archive-date=28 October 2008}}
Redevelopment
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File:Footbridge over Princes Dock - geograph.org.uk - 328709.jpg
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Commercial redevelopment began when the dock was passed to the Merseyside Development Corporation in 1988. Much of Prince's Dock's wharfage and warehouse space has been replaced by:
- Three blocks of office accommodation along the river front.
- The £24 million Malmaison 128-room hotel. It opened in 2007 and is its owning company's first ever 'new build'.{{cite news| url = https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2007/mar/06/liverpool.hotels.uk |publisher = The Guardian | title = Malmaison, Liverpool | access-date = 6 April 2008 | location=London | first=Jon | last=Dennis | date=6 March 2007}} It stands alongside the existing Crowne Plaza hotel.
- Three blocks of flats.
The dock was partially filled in to inland canal boat depths precluding deep water vessels. The dock has been divided into two sections spanned by a pedestrian bridge{{cite web| url=http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/liverpool-link02.htm | title=Liverpool Canal Link, before work began (Page 2) | publisher=Pennine Waterways | access-date=6 April 2008}} that was designed by the Liverpool John Moores University Centre for Architectural Research and Consultancy Unit (CARCU).{{cite web| url = http://www.ihsti.com/cis/Doc.aspx?AuthCode=&DocNum=256679 | title = Walking through hoops. Footbridge at Princes Dock, Liverpool | publisher = The Construction Information Service | access-date = 6 April 2008}}
By March 2009 work was completed{{cite web|url=http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/liverpool-link25.htm |title=Liverpool Canal Link, March 2009 (Page 1: Salthouse Dock, Mann Island)|publisher=Pennine Waterways|access-date=8 July 2009}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7962742.stm|title=New canal link to boost tourism|date=25 March 2009|work=BBC News|access-date=8 July 2009}} on a £22 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/liverpool-canal-link/the-scheme |title=Liverpool Canal Link: The Scheme|publisher=British Waterways|access-date=8 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728215259/http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/liverpool-canal-link/the-scheme|archive-date=28 July 2009}}
A new lock and fixed bridge was built at the northern end of Prince's Dock. At the south end of the dock, a new canal tunnel was constructed which leads to the Pier Head. The tunnel is routed beneath St. Nicholas Place and the access road for the new cruise liner facility.{{cite web|url=http://www.britishwaterways.co.uk/liverpool-canal-link/progress/st-nicholas-tunnel | title=St Nicholas Tunnel|publisher=British Waterways|access-date=8 July 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100925165321/http://britishwaterways.co.uk/liverpool-canal-link/progress/st-nicholas-tunnel|archive-date=25 September 2010}}
From Prince's Dock, the extension passes the Pier Head and terminates at Canning Dock.
In 2007, planning permission was secured for the £130million New World Square.{{cite web|url=http://www.building.co.uk/liverpool-docks-to-get-%C2%A3130m-new-world-scheme/3079534.article|title=Liverpool docks to get £130m New World scheme|work=Building.co.uk|first=Martin|last=Spring|date=2007|access-date=29 August 2016}} This was to have incorporated an eight-storey, five-star hotel, 385 apartments and space for shops and restaurants.{{cite web | url = http://www.investmerseyside.com/displaypage.asp?page_key=18&table=majorprojects | title = Major Development Projects / Princes Dock | publisher = The Mersey Partnership | access-date = 4 April 2008 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20110713051412/http://www.investmerseyside.com/displaypage.asp?page_key=18&table=majorprojects | archive-date = 13 July 2011 | url-status = dead }} However, planning permission for this development expired in 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/threat-new-world-square-scheme-3434808|title=Threat to New World Square scheme planned for Liverpool waterfront|date=27 January 2010|work=Liverpool Echo|access-date=29 August 2016}}
In 2016, planning permission was granted for the 34-storey Lexington Liverpool.{{cite news|url=http://www.ybnews.co.uk/regional-development/developer-moda-secures-planning-consent-for-82m-skyscraper-on-liverpools-waterfront/|title=Developer Moda secures planning consent for £82m skyscraper on Liverpool’s waterfront|publisher=YBnews|date=20 September 2016|access-date=21 September 2016}}
Liverpool Cruise Terminal
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Liverpool Cruise Terminal opened in 2007.
As part of their plans to increase the number of visitors to Liverpool, the city council unveiled plans in September 2017 for a new cruise terminal that would be situated on the banks of the Mersey at Prince's Dock, where the wooden landing currently stage is. The plans would allow ships carrying up to 3,600 passengers to dock in Liverpool with the facilities including dedicated passport control and a cafe. It is hoped that a multi-storey car park and hotel will be built at Prince's Dock as part of the work.{{cite web|last1=Houghton|first1=Alistair|title=Here's how Liverpool's new £50m cruise liner terminal could look|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/heres-how-liverpools-new-50m-13649055|website=Liverpool Echo|access-date=21 September 2017|date=21 September 2017}}
Cultural references
Prince's Dock is mentioned in the novel Redburn, His First Voyage by Herman Melville (1849):{{citation|url=http://www.bwpics.co.uk/gallery/princes.html|title=Picture Gallery: Princes Dock|publisher=The Black & White Picture Place|access-date=20 March 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080105052307/http://www.bwpics.co.uk/gallery/princes.html |archive-date = 5 January 2008}}
"In magnitude, cost and durability the docks of Liverpool surpass all others in the world... for miles you may walk along that riverside, passing dock after dock, like a chain of immense fortresses.
Prince's Dock, of comparatively recent construction, is perhaps the largest of all and is well known to American sailors from the fact that it is mostly frequented by the American shipping."
It is also mentioned in The English at the North Pole, the first part of Jules Verne novel The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1864).{{cite web | url = http://www.gutenberg.org/files/22759/22759-h/22759-h.htm | title = The Project Gutenberg EBook of The English at the North Pole | publisher = Project Gutenberg | access-date = 7 September 2009}}
See also
Notes
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References
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=Sources=
- {{cite book|last1=Ashmore|first1=Owen|title=The Industrial Archaeology of North-west England|date=1982|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719008207|oclc=8555887}}
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/liverpoolin185900bain|title=Liverpool in 1859|first=Thomas|last=Baines|year=1859|publisher=Longman & Co.|location=London|oclc=43484994}}
- {{cite book|title=Give a Dock a Good Name?|first1=Ken|last1=McCarron|first2=Adrian|last2=Jarvis|publisher=Merseyside Port Folios|location=Birkenhead|year=1992|isbn=9780951612941|oclc=27770301}}
- {{cite book|first1=Richard|last1=Pollard|first2=Nikolaus|last2=Pevsner|title=Lancashire: Liverpool and the South West|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2006|isbn=9780300109108|oclc=63396571}}
External links
{{Commons category|Princes Dock, Liverpool|Prince's Dock}}
- {{cite web|url=http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2.htm|title=Liverpool North Docks diagram|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106053614/http://www.liverpool2007.org.uk/docks/docks2.htm|archive-date=6 January 2009}}
- [http://www.multimap.com/maps/?mapType=aerial&zoom=17&countryCode=GB&lat=53.4094635380438&lon=-2.99056006018835#map=53.40946,-2.99056|17|8&bd=useful_information&loc=GB:53.40866:-2.99866:17 Prince's Dock aerial photo]
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