| Stanley Dock | |
|---|---|
 Looking east over Stanley Dock towards the Leeds and Liverpool Canal | |
| Location | |
| Location | Vauxhall,Liverpool,Merseyside,United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53°26′37″N3°00′33″W / 53.4436°N 3.0092°W /53.4436; -3.0092 |
| OS grid | SJ337921 |
| Details | |
| Owner | Kitgrove Ltd.[1][2] |
| Opened | 1848 |
| Type | Wet dock |
| Joins | |
| Area | 7 acres (2.8 ha), 120 sq yd (100 m2)[3] |
| Width at entrance | 51 ft (16 m)[4] |
| Quay length | 753 yd (689 m)[4] |
Stanley Dock is adock on theRiver Mersey,England, and part of thePort of Liverpool. It is situated in theVauxhall area ofLiverpool and is part of the northern dock system. The dock is connected to theLeeds and Liverpool Canal to the east andCollingwood Dock to the west.
Designed byJesse Hartley, it opened on 4 August 1848.[5][6][7] The dock is the only one in Liverpool which was built inland, all the others being built out from the foreshore.[8] The original quaywarehouses are of a similar design to those atAlbert Dock and aregrade II* listed buildings. The warehouses were built to five storeys, covering an area of 12,000 sq yd (10,000 m2).[9] Part of the northern quay warehouse was demolished after sustaining damage in an air raid duringWorld War II.[10] The southern quay warehouse remains, however no longer on a quay. Between 1897 and 1901, the southern part of the dock was filled in to build the largeStanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse byAnthony George Lyster.[7] The tobacco warehouse stands between the new quay between and the older southern quay warehouse.
There are two entrances to the Stanley Dock complex at the south end from Regent Road and two at the north from Great Howard Street, via sets of three granite towers. These towers are similar in design to the towers in other Liverpool docks, and originally had sliding gates set into the thickness of the wall.[11] There is also a link to the canal which opened in 1848, via the bridge under Great Howard Street, also designed by Hartley. The adjoining branch canal is 1,400 ft (430 m) in length and was built with astaircase of four locks, each 80 ft (24 m) apart, with a width of16+1⁄2 ft (5.0 m).[9] The staircase was built byJ. B. Hartley.[7]
The dock is the focal point of the Stanley DockConservation Area.[12] In 2006, work commenced on a £20 million extension of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, providing a further 1.4 miles of navigable waterway[13] towards thePier Head. As of March 2007, plans have been unveiled for the warehouses to be redeveloped into office space and a total of 930 apartments. The plans involve digging out the centre of the tobacco warehouse to create a garden-filled courtyard.[14]
The site featured as part of theMost Haunted Live! Liverpool investigation in January 2009 and in the 2011 superhero filmCaptain America: The First Avenger.[15]
The remaining parts of the northern warehouse were in a "poor" condition, and on theHeritage at Risk Register 2011, but were approved forredevelopment.[16] The northern warehouse has since been developed in to a hotel devoted to theWhite Star Line's RMSTitanic liner, which has strong links to the area's history of docks and shipping.[17]
