Restoration experts from Oldham are the specialist ‘time team’ helping to restore the world’s first commercial enclosed wet dock.
Liverpool’s Old Dock was rediscovered during excavations by archaeologists in 2001. Built in 1715, it had been filled in by 1826 as it was too small.
Royton-based Maysand were instructed by developers Grosvenor to help preserve the dock, under the Liverpool One shopping complex, and make it accessible to the public. It will become the city’s latest tourist attraction from May as part Merseyside Maritime Museum.
The £3.5m development features a visitor’s centre, equipped with special displays and a giant projector screen which shows how the dock would have looked in its original river front setting.
Maysand has worked on a wide range of restoration, regeneration and preservation projects including Salford Cathedral, Manchester City Art Gallery, Dunham Massey, Mr Thomas’s Chop House pub in Manchester’s and Chethams School of Music.
The original excavation of the old dock featured in a special edition of Channel 4’s Time Team show in 2008.
Maysand managing director Bryn Lisle said: “It’s an important piece of the city’s heritage because the dock sparked Liverpool’s transformation into a major trading post. Before it Liverpool was little more than a village. It is difficult to underestimate the importance of old dock in the story of Liverpool itself.”
Maysand’s experts worked on the old dock wall alongside a team of historians. The project involved taking the wall down, carefully rebuilding it and repointing it before a final clean.
Mr Lisle said: “It has been turned in a fascinating piece of the city’s rich past and it was wonderful to be able to work on such a prestigious project.”
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