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History of the dock complex on the Wirral;
1847
Morpeth & Egerton Docks open after years of planning and political plotting.
1851-60
The Great Float opens. It has been formed by closing Wallasey Pool and using Egerton Dock as an
entrance. It is planned as a link to other docks that will be built off its quays, but instead will become a
dock in its own right. It will have 110 acres of water and more than four miles of quays. It is split into
East (1851) and West (1860) Floats.
1850s
Emigrants are leaving East Float on ships bound for Australia.
1866
Alfred Dock is constructed. With its large river locks it provides good access to the Great Float.
1868
Following the repeal (withdrawal) of the Corn Laws more grain is imported through Birkenhead. There
is a lot of demand for grain from the growing industrial towns of northern England.
1870
Corn warehouses are built on the Great Float. They store imported grain before it is moved on.
1870s
Developing countries like North and South America have large areas of land ideal for rearing sheep and
cattle. They have more animals than they use, and so send huge quantities to the growing industrial
towns of Britain on fast steamships. At Birkenhead they are sold to farmers or slaughterhouses.
1871
A large railway network has developed around the Birkenhead docks. It has stations for goods and rail
connections to all the quays. Coal for steamships is brought by rail from South Wales and loaded onto
ships at the Great Float. Morpeth Dock is the site of the one o'clock gun. It is used by ships to set their
chronometers.
1873
Large concrete casements (containers with thick walls) are built at the far end of the West Float. They
are for storing inflammable oil and petrol.
1877
Wallasey Dock opens. It had been the unsuccessful Great Low Water Basin.
1878
Sickness destroys Britain's sheep and cattle. The disease has been imported with foreign animals. It is
now illegal to import animals unless they are slaughtered or quarantined (isolated) in licensed quays.
These are called Foreign Animal Wharves. Lairages, slaughterhouses, chill rooms and meat-stores are
built at Morpeth and Wallasey Docks.
1880s
Docks and railways are built in South Wales. Birkenhead is not needed to export Welsh coal anymore.
1885
Birkenhead's oil and petrol trade grows. Storage tanks with pipes connecting them directly to berths
on the West Float are built.
1893
Dockside mills are built. Imported grain can now be processed before it is transported inland. This
reduces transport costs.
1894
The Manchester Ship Canal opens. It joins the Mersey at Eastham (up river from Birkenhead) and was
built to avoid Liverpool.
1897
The imported animal trade is booming. 40-50% of Britain's trade in American sheep and cattle passes
through Birkenhead.
Coloured floats in Viareggio, creatios of the famous "papier-maché wizards", the heart of the Italian carnival.
Mamou Mardi Gras Parde, Feb. 25, 2020: Following a trail ride and Mardi Gras Chicken Run, participants--including floats and trailers, horse riders, and four wheelers-- paraded down the north end of Sixth Street in Mamou while Keith Frank and the Soileau Zydeco Band performed.
Me catching a Rainbow trout from a float tube for the first time. Might look very stupid but it's a great way to fish. Taken by Mike at the Haddo Fishery
Exactly what was needed after the day I've had today... though I feel like a waterproof camera would have been useful...
Photograph taken at 09:18am on May 19th 2012 off Banks Road B3369 near Cafe Shore opposite the golden sandy shoreline in the harbour, Sandbanks, a small peninsula crossing the mouth of Poole Harbour on the English Channel coast at Poole in Dorset, England.
Nikon D7000 116mm 1/500s f/10.0 iso200
Nikkor AF-S 55-300mm f/4.5-5.6G VR. UV filter. Nikon GP-1 GPS.
LATITUDE: N 50d 41m 21.97s
LONGITUDE: W 1d 56m 22.12s
ALTITUDE: 8.0m
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One of the festival floats for a festival here in Fuchu-city. The festival will be on all this week, but on the 4th teams from different neighborhoods will be racing through the streets carrying these huge umbrella looking things - each of which weighs about 50kg. Children race with smaller children's versions. They are super colourful. Each of the little flowers attached to it is hand-made from tissue paper, and takes about 10 minutes to make.
A float in a procession in Arbroath on an unspecified date. Were these real animals on the float? Or were they animals at all?
Baby float has a seat and back rest for safe and sturdy fun in the pool. Also has three balls with bells in a water-tight tube to play with (attached to the float).
Contact: Matt (678-485-0039 or gagirlpm@aol.com)
Price = $5
Wheels dropped from the floats allow the plane to come ashore and avoid having to build a docking station.
Killarney, Lake Huron, Ontario.
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