Trading Places - a history of Liverpool Docks

1840

Steamships begin regular liner services across the Atlantic, taking people and cargo to North and South America. Steamers enter the coastal trades. New docks are specially built for them away from the inflammable sailing ships.

The electric telegraph is invented allowing quicker, easier communications across the world.

Docks active in this year include:

• Waterloo Dock
• Princes Dock
• Canning Dock
• Albert Dock
• Pier Head
• Wapping Dock
• Herculaneum Dock
• Birkenhead Docks

Click on a dock name to learn more.

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