Canada Dock opened in 1859, the last and biggest dock designed by Jesse Hartley (a famous Liverpool dock engineer), connecting to the Langdon and Brocklebank Docks to the north and Huskisson Dock to the south.
It was originally used for importing timber from Canada, hence the name, but has been extensively modified since.
It now consists of three branch docks and a graving dock and is mostly used for scrap metal sorting and storage (S. Norton & Co), with an animal feed place (Volac) at the south end.
I’ve driven past here many times, wondering if there was anything worth seeing apart from huge piles of scrap metal - which I kind of fancied wandering round anyway.
The main target was one the few remaining pump houses in the Liverpool dock system, D on the satellite view below.
I also had a look in a little building A, a big transit shed B, and another little building beyond it C.
Starting with a view of A and the shed B from up in a warehouse on the opposite side of the dock road.
Building A is shown as a custom’s office on old OS maps, built sometime between 1927 and 1964. Just an empty, grimy little place.
Shed B is in three sections and seems to be seldom used, although some lights were on in the middle part. Nothing in here except hordes of pigeons and some small rooms and signs.
Heading over to building C past a small Matterhorn of scrap..
..its a little office of some sort, built in the mid 60’s according to OS maps. Nothing inside, but a good place to watch boats go past.
The view north - the Langdon pump house is hidden behind the incoming Seatruck ferry, with the large silos of the Gladstone dock in the background.
Heading round to the graving dock a view inland to the nearby derelict warehouses (left to right, Merseyside Food Supplies, a former engineering works and United Mersey Supplies).
Approaching the pump house.
It was originally used for importing timber from Canada, hence the name, but has been extensively modified since.
It now consists of three branch docks and a graving dock and is mostly used for scrap metal sorting and storage (S. Norton & Co), with an animal feed place (Volac) at the south end.
I’ve driven past here many times, wondering if there was anything worth seeing apart from huge piles of scrap metal - which I kind of fancied wandering round anyway.
The main target was one the few remaining pump houses in the Liverpool dock system, D on the satellite view below.
I also had a look in a little building A, a big transit shed B, and another little building beyond it C.
Starting with a view of A and the shed B from up in a warehouse on the opposite side of the dock road.
Building A is shown as a custom’s office on old OS maps, built sometime between 1927 and 1964. Just an empty, grimy little place.
Shed B is in three sections and seems to be seldom used, although some lights were on in the middle part. Nothing in here except hordes of pigeons and some small rooms and signs.
Heading over to building C past a small Matterhorn of scrap..
..its a little office of some sort, built in the mid 60’s according to OS maps. Nothing inside, but a good place to watch boats go past.
The view north - the Langdon pump house is hidden behind the incoming Seatruck ferry, with the large silos of the Gladstone dock in the background.
Heading round to the graving dock a view inland to the nearby derelict warehouses (left to right, Merseyside Food Supplies, a former engineering works and United Mersey Supplies).
Approaching the pump house.
