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outer docks, including a hexagonal clocktower in the centre of the docks, and the warehouses
have much character, despite all the smashed windows. In due course the area of restoration
and redevelopment must move north along the line of the canal link and these buildings will
be made into attractive features. The proposed Liverpool Waters project would take up to 50
years to complete and would include buildings up to 50 storeys high.
The new 690m Liverpool Link accepts boats only six times per day. It passes through the
remains of Trafalgar Dock, along the Central Docks Channel, through West Waterloo Dock,
over the Kingsway Tunnel, through Princes Half-Tide Dock and Princes Dock (with the
Large Objects Collection including steam vehicles and a Blue Streak rocket), under a modern
asymmetric footbridge, through the St Nicholas, Cunard and Museum Tunnels between sec-
tions of Pierhead Gardens, over the Queensway Tunnel and past the Beatles Story Pier Head,
the new ferry and cruise liner terminal and through the Liver Basin past the Three Graces,
which consist of the Royal Liver Building (Britain's first skyscraper with Britain's biggest
clock faces), the Cunard Building and the Port of Liverpool Building. A temporary swinging
bascule bridge made of 100,000 pieces of Meccano was erected over the canal for a James
May TV programme. The new Museum of Liverpool is a lower building but is very obvious
from the canal. The route passes Mann Island and through Canning Dock, Stephen Smith's
destination from India in A Pair of Blue Eyes , with the Planet , the former Mersey Bar and
Channel light vessel, and the 1900 Kathleen & May , Britain's last remaining three-masted
topsail schooner. The canal finishes at Salthouse Dock, adjacent to the tidal Albert Dock, loc-
ation of the Merseyside Maritime Museum with the dock archives, the Beatles Story Albert
Dock, the International Slavery Museum, the Tate Liverpool and various other sports and cul-
tural experiences, including Yellow Duck Tours, which have seen more than one sinking of
the amphibious Second World War vehicles, the last time by a tyre in the water. The Pump-
house is now a public house and there are plenty more in the 1846 granite-and-brick Albert
Dock buildings by Jesse Hartley. This is the UK's largest group of Grade I buildings, closed
in 1972 and now housing shops.
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