Block 1/bridges (panorama project). I've seen the TT Bury picture described as Whiston incline/Sutton incline/Broad green to Roby. If here, then Bury is standing on no. 1 Park's bridge?? (next one - no.2- is brick; though could you get that height and are distant ones in the Olive Mt. cutting?).

@lmrailway.bsky.social Just in the process of roughing out bridges in adv of the panorama project. Wondering how to interpret the bridge list P (thanks so much) re dates and google map etc. E.g. the Whiston run has some odd things (and Spring Lane?) unless I am misinterpreting? (usually).....

A further infographic. The 4 branch railways connecting to the L&MR -1830s. This, together with the diagrams of L&MR features and the station survey (see previous), pulls together information from many sources and will underpin the planned panorama of the line. Thanks to the L&MR trust. Comments? Ta

L&MR station list infographic based on V2 research table - previous post

Revised list of L&MR stations (1830s).

@lmrailway.bsky.social Hi P. Just revisiting some work we did re the stations/stops in the 1830s. Thought it worth settling a list plus a couple of puzzling things as attached. Would be glad of a view if you get time. Cheers

Just on the design of successive cisterns. Attached discussion board attempts a summary of the position: following a probable red herring. I think currently at least, that the water tank is pretty much as shown by Bury throughout the 1830s - until later works/expansion cause a new build.

Discussion board re: a potential reverse view of the Liverpool Road arrivals station. Possibly v arcane problem, but views, images, opinions, ridicule, superior knowledge etc. v welcome as ever.

A further speculative study. (Lpooll Rd. terminus, Manchester): how the arrivals station may have looked in a) 1835/6 and b) 1837/8. Assuming the latter an open fronted building at 2nd floor (2 colonnades). Extensive carriage wharf inside; Many stables, stores, kitchens below. Pedestrian exit??

Developing views on the viaduct and possible 1836 arrivals position (below). A mistake to place arrivals here?? - scores of passengers, tons of luggage, road carriages; unless there was some easy way off. Would a Water street footbridge fit, or indeed help? Did the S slope serve only the cistern?

@railwayhobbit.bsky.social @lmrailway.bsky.social @vrsimility.bsky.social might be useful to share this, admittedly rudimentary (between walks) sketch for next 1835 version. Some assumptions obvs. Not sure how the early arrivals colonnade fits in the space. Assume still crossed the lines??

A cloudless Windermere day

At the Manchester end of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. A sketch giving the context for the Liverpool Road terminus. Mid 1830s.

Liverpool & Manchester Railway. A description of how the rail-track or 'permanent way' developed.

@lmrailway.bsky.social . A new project to illustrate all 31 miles of the L&MR with information panels along the way. First steps.All aboard..

Continuing research into the Edge Hill engine station, an approximation of the rope winding mechanisms that operated through the Wapping tunnel for dock-bound goods wagons (gravity out/cable back).

Re: previous post. Edge Hill Engine Station - mid 1830s. How trains were detached from locomotives and rope-hauled to Crown Street station.

Continuing research into the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, a new and more historically accurate version of the Edge Hill Engine station illustration - mid 1830s. Showing the connection between it and Crown Street Passenger station - top right - via a 290 yard tunnel.

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Aerial view from 1988 over St John's Beacon, the new Clayton Square complex under construction, The Walkways in the Sky still in place over Roe Street, shot from a Cessna 172 and using a Hasselblad camera @angiesliverpool.bsky.social @yoliverpool.bsky.social @daveyph.bsky.social

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Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool waterfront area around Mann Island and the warehouses/pubs of 'Nova Scotia'. 1890. Including docks, foreground buildings serving the cross-Mersey underground railway and - just in - George's dock (right) later filled in to build the 'three graces'.

Re: previous post - some annotated features.

Watercolour reconstruction; Liverpool 1823. . What existed before St. George's Hall? The first Liverpool Infirmary and asylum, the Seaman's Hospital, a cattle market pre Lime Street station, St John's church, and Shaw's Brow before the grandeur of William Brown Street. Nothing remains.

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool's Dale Street area/Commercial Quarter in the 1860s (cutting diagonally) with Tithebarn St clipping bottom left, Cavern Quarter top right and Municipal building under construction, top left. Orientation is rightwards to the waterfront.

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool, 1769; the delta of Church Street and Hanover Street: featuring St. Peter's church (the 'pro-cathedral') and the Blue Coat School. Based on a contemporary map by John Perry. Left, the lengthy tree-lined rope walks that would become Bold Street.

Watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool's Herculaneum pottery (c.1815) once located in Toxteth Park. Opened 1790s, closed 1841, replaced by Harrington and Herculaneum docks.

Reconstruction of 'Mulberry', the first ship to leave Liverpool's Old Dock in 1715. (Where Liverpool One is today). The ship was owned by Bryan Blundell. Master Mariner, slave trade participant and one time Mayor. He is famous for founding the Blue Coat school two years later

Some 60 years later and Liverpool is unrecognisable from it's 1675 manifestation. The pool filled in to create the Old Dock, the castle gone and the town on the verge of commercial success: in part involving a - regrettably - growing part in transatlantic slavery

My watercolour reconstruction of Liverpool as it would have looked in 1675.