Victoria Tower

[4737carlin]

Victoria Tower, Salisbury Dock, Liverpool

Last week we managed to get inside the Victoria Tower near Stanley Dock in Liverpool, always wanted to do this. The land which runs up to it from Princess Dock is being used by builders to make cables for reinforced concrete, anyway after they clocked off we clocked in, walked across there site and gained

access via a few fences and typical shenanigans!!!!

This place for those who arnt familiar
http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/jessehartley/index.html

some more internal pics to follow once ive had a shower.......

 

[4737carlin]

Heres some of the mechanisms inside, everything inside was so caked it was crazy.

 

[4737carlin]

The fethered friends did seem to own the place!!

Eggs all over the place

Nearly stood on these 2!!

 

[4737carlin]

few more

 

[4737carlin]

top of the spiral staircase

 

[4737carlin]

stairs

 

[krela]

Very nice little place, shame about the resident pigeons, they can't half do some damage

 

[kongzi]

Thats a whole lot of bird shit

 

[4737carlin]

that was the most pigeon shit ive ever been exposed to, could actually taste it in the air!

 

[jhluxton]

Fascinating stuff.

I have drawn attention to your handy work on the Irish Sea Shipping web site. There will be many shipping enthusiasts familiar with the Liverpool Dock system who ant to know what the interior was like!

John

 

[4737carlin]

Fascinating stuff.

I have drawn attention to your handy work on the Irish Sea Shipping web site. There will be many shipping enthusiasts familiar with the Liverpool Dock system who ant to know what the interior was like!

John

can you please give me a link for that? sounds a interesting web site

 

[jhluxton]

The Irish Sea Shipping site is

www.irishseashipping.com

I have posted a link on the news page this evening

ISS also has a subsidiary Yahoo Chat group to which I have also posted a direction to this page.

If you visit the Maritime Heritage sub site

http://www.irishseashipping.com/heritage/

There will be a few things to interest people on this board!

John

 

[Tom Woosey]

As a new member I would like to say what an excellent site this is,I found it
thanks to John Luxtons Irish Sea Shipping Site .There are a lot of interesting buildings around Merseyside so I hope that you keep up the good work as you did with Victoria Tower welldone.
Tom