Atlas Obscura
Liverpool’s First Enclosed Dock in Liverpool, England
In a subterranean chamber under the massive Liverpool ONE shopping centre is the infrastructure that turned Liverpool from a lacklustre port city into a global powerhouse of shipping. While the city got it's charter back in 1207 with the intention of it being a port city, it struggled to gain much success. It was overshadowed by nearby Chester and lacked decent infrastructure; Loading and unloa…
brick-lined enclosed port opened to traffic in 1715