View from the window at the International Slavery Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool.

The Liverpool Waterfront. It has changed so much since the days of the transatlantic slave trade ended.

The three famous 20th century Pier Head buildings stand on the site of George's Dock where slave ships bound for Africa loaded their goods.

The two dry docks, in front of the Great Western Railway building, were built in the 18th century, Slave ships were repaired in these docks. They are a vivid reminder of the horrors of Liverpool's slave trading, and monuments to the commercial success of 18th century Liverpool.

Views of the Royal Liver Building & Port of Liverpool Building over Mann Island Buildings, with Alexandra Tower to the left of them.

Both Grade II* listed buildings.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-214151-royal-liver-building-iron-railings-and-s" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Royal Liver Building</a>

SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD L3

27/503 Royal Liver Building Iron railings and stone piers surrounding 12.7.66 Royal Liver Building. (formerly listed under G.V. I Pier Head)

Office building. 1908-10. Aubrey Thomas. Concrete frame with granite cladding. 8 storeys, and 2 storeys of attics. 9 bays, 13-bay returns. Front has 4 giant buttress/projections each of 1 bay width, the middle 2 framing a semi-circular portico of Ionic columns with balustraded parapet; a smaller semi-circular projecting window above with shield of arms and Ionic columns. Ground and 1st floors rusticated. Ground floor has round-arched windows. Upper floors to 2nd, 3rd, 7th and 8th bays recessed behind parapet and scrolls. Windows with mullions and transoms of 3 lights. Those to projecting bays with transom only. Those to 5th and 6th floors in round headed recesses with balconies. Top floor recessed behind Doric colonnade. Frieze and bracketed cornice. Receding attics with parapets. Roof piled up with turrets and domes in receding stages. Clock towers with copper liver birds on top. Iron railings and stone piers all round at base. One of the 1st multi-storey concrete framed buildings in the world.

Listing NGR: SJ3388090329

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-214149-port-of-liverpool-building-and-stone-bal" rel="noreferrer nofollow">The Port of Liverpool Building</a>

   SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD
   L3

   27/501 Port of Liverpool
   Building and stone
   balustrade,iron gates
   and piers(formerly
   12.7.66. listed as Offices at
   Mersey Docks and
   Harbour Board)

   G.V. II*

   Office building. 1907. Arnold Thornely. Portland tone.
   Basement and 5 storeys, 13 bays wide with canted corner
   bays, ll-bay returns. Rusticated basement ground and 1st
   floor window round-headed, 1st floors, and corner bays.
   2nd, central and 12th bays break forward. Ground floor
   window round-headed, 1st floor windows in eared architraves.
   2nd and 3rd floors recessed behind attached Ionic colonnade
   with entablature and central open pediment containing bulls
   eye and dolphins, at ends round open pediments containing
   attic window. 3rd floor window of 3 lights, with
   colonnettes supporting open segmental pediments, and
   balustraded balconies. 4th floor window of 3 lights with
   colonnettes, centre and end bays have Diocletian windows.
   Attic has round-headed window with projecting panelled
   blocks between. Entrance in tunnel-vaulted recess with
   keystone and pediment, flanked by statues on plinths with
   ships in cornucopias over. End octagonal towers with tall
   glazed drums and coupled Ionic columns supporting domes.
   Central dome on 2-stage drum. 1st stage with Ionic
   colonnade and 4 projecting aedicules containing niches, 2nd
   stage recessed behind balustrade. Copper dome surmounted by
   lantern with 4 aedicules and obelisk. Interior has full
   height octagonal hall with coffered dome. Round-arched
   openings to galleries with iron railings and solid balconies
   with lamp standards to alternate floors. Mosaic paving. 2
   square stone piers opposite the entrance, with dentilled
   cornices and globes with gilded continents; 4 iron gates and
   gate piers. Also stone balustrade across whole front,
   curving from entrance piers, with stone lamp holders on
   ends, and continuing round the whole building with stone
   lamp holders at intervals, in the form of naval monuments
   with draped urns on top. Also iron gates and piers at each
   end of forecourt.

   Listing NGR: SJ3392290208

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.