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  2. Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool - Wikipedia

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    The Albert Dock was officially re-opened in 1988 by The Prince of Wales, [35] the great-great-great-grandson of Prince Albert, the man who had originally opened the docks. [36] It was timed to coincide with the opening of the newly finished Tate Liverpool , which was dubbed the 'Tate of the north' and at the time the only one outside London. [ 37 ]

  3. Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City - Wikipedia

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    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. [15]

  4. Prince's Dock, Liverpool - Wikipedia

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    Prince's Dock [nb 1] [4] 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.

  5. King's Dock, Port of Liverpool - Wikipedia

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    As a result of this project, leisure, residential and conference facilities have been developed including 11,000-seat capacity Echo Arena Liverpool and convention centre officially opened in January 2008 [6] when Liverpool's year of European Capital of Culture began, 3,600 square metre multi-purpose hall, 1,350 seat conference auditorium with ...

  6. Liverpool Central railway station - Wikipedia

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    The High Level station was demolished in 1973, having served a short time as a car park, although some former station buildings remained while work was in progress on rebuilding the underground station in the mid-1970s. The area of the train shed now forms the centre of the stalled Central Village development.

  7. Duke's Dock - Wikipedia

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    The river entrance was filled in during the 1980s, and replaced with a permanent roadway leading to a large temporary car park on the site of King's Dock. [citation needed] Footbridges across the dock, leading from the King's Dock car park to the rejuvenated Albert Dock, were also installed at this time. The remaining buildings on the north ...

  8. Albert Dock Traffic Office - Wikipedia

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    The Albert Dock Traffic Office is a 19th-century Grade I listed building located in Liverpool, England. As part of a series of other buildings it makes up part of the Albert Dock . Formally the former home of Granada Television the building is now owned by National Museums Liverpool .

  9. Liverpool - Wikipedia

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    The late 1980s saw the opening of a regenerated Albert Dock which proved to be a catalyst for further regeneration. [67] In the mid-1990s, the city enjoyed growth rates higher than the national average. At the end of the 20th century, Liverpool was concentrating on regeneration, a process that continues today.