River Mersey
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The River Mersey is a major river in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Me
The River Mersey at Liverpool, looking towards the Royal Liver Building
The River Mersey empties into the Manchester Ship Canal at Flixton, near Irlam Locks.
Aerial view of the Runcorn Gap
An aerial image of the estuary in 1962
Manchester Ship Canal
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The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long inland waterway in North West England that links Manchester to the Irish Sea. Beginning in the Mersey estuary at Eastham, near Ellesmere Port in Cheshire, i
Stolt Kittiwake heading toward the Mersey estuary, 2005
A cartoon published in the satirical magazine Punch in 1882, ridiculing the idea that Manchester could become a major seaport
Cheque dated 3 August 1887, in the amount of £1,710,000, for the purchase of the Bridgewater Navigation Company. At the time it was the largest cheque ever presented.
The Excavation of the Manchester Ship Canal: Eastham Cutting with Mount Manisty in the Distance (1891), by Benjamin Williams Leader, brother of the canal's engineer Edward Leader Williams