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The 127 miles of the Leeds to Liverpool canal took 40 years to complete; the canal reached Gargrave from Bingley and Skipton in 1774, and linked with Leeds three years later.

Liverpool and Manchester both sent traffic over the Ribble bridges and into the dock area to join roads that were full already.

Fleetwood lacked the infrastructure to compete with Liverpool as a major port for passenger and cargo traffic, but it did become England's principal fishing port on the west coast with a fleet to rival

Knowsley is the home of the Stanley family, and is one of the most imposing of the large houses around Liverpool.

Liverpool and Manchester both sent traffic over the Ribble bridges and into the dock area to join roads that were full already.

It was sold in 1591and later bought by the Liverpool sugar trader, Richard Watt, in 1783.

Packets for Dublin, Falmouth, Plymouth, Glasgow, Liverpool and Cork used the Town Pier, as did the ferry for Hythe, while those for the Isle of Wight, Southsea and Portsmouth left from the Royal

With the restoriation of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850, the Jesuit Mission, based at Ulverston, was handed over to the Bishop of Liverpool; the recognition of the beginnings of the growth of Barrow-in-Furness

The Waterloo Column, Liverpool's version of Nelson's Column in London, dominates this photograph.

The first game on this new ground was against the Liverpool Gentlemen, which Manchester won.

He had been arrested in France during the Revolution, but escaped and spent three years in Liverpool before coming to Ormskirk.

The Black Rock had long been a hazard to navigation for ships entering or leaving Liverpool.

This scheme caused dismay beyond the confines of the town, in a row reminiscent of the one in 2005 over plans to knock down Victorian housing in Liverpool and replace it with modern housing stock

He had been arrested in France during the Revolution, but escaped and spent three years in Liverpool before coming to Ormskirk.

Coal mining had been a major industry regionally since the 16th century; the coal had traditionally been transported by packhorse into neighbouring Cheshire and to Liverpool.

The White Star Line started in Liverpool when Thomas Henry Ismay bought a bankrupt shipping company in 1868.

By this time, the southern section of the canal had been sold to the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Company and the northern section to the London and North Western Railway Company.

The impressive harbour with its fine breakwater was constructed in 1906, in an effort to entice the great sea-going ships away from Liverpool and Southampton, but this idea came to nothing.

The Inman Line was one of the principal players on the North Atlantic service, holding mail contracts for Liverpool to New York and Liverpool to Halifax.

As she could drive, the WVS directed her to take a canteen into Liverpool after the raids.

At about the same time the Great Eastern Railway Company constructed a branch line from Liverpool Street to reach Southend via Rayleigh.

She was later sold to R & D Jones, Liverpool, for excursion work along the North Wales coast, and it was whilst she was in their ownership that she was photographed here off Little Orme Head in 1891.