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The MDHB took over running of Liverpool's docks from the trustees in 1858. The need for Liverpool Corporation to divest its dock interests to a new public body was as a result of pressure from Parliament, dock merchants and some rival port operators.
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At one point the MDHB railway totalled 104 miles (166 km) of line, with connections to many other railways. A section of the line ran, unsegregated from other road traffic, along the dock road. Today only the
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In order to provide stone for the construction of the expanded dock system, from 1830 the trustees (and later the MDHB) operated large quarries at
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In 1972, the MDHB was reconstituted as a company to allow it to raise money for new building initiatives and projects, including the
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was the original port authority. In 1709, it had been authorised to construct Liverpool's first enclosed ship basin, the
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The company operated a private lifeboat station that was involved in a number of incidents over the years.
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Following the closure of the original Cammell Laird shipyard in 1993, the dock and the four remaining
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On 22 September 2005, the MDHC was acquired by Peel Ports, part of the property and transport group
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shipyard at the turn of the 20th century by enclosing what was once Tranmere Pool.
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regarding its treatment of some of its staff in the 1990s, which resulted in the
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at the site are owned by the MDHC. All were subsequently leased, firstly to the
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in the approaches to the River Mersey were maintained by the MDHB until 1973.
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had retained a 14% shareholding in MDHC which was sold on 30 March 1998.
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Labour sells its shares in Mersey Docks & Harbour Company
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Companies formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange
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Mersey Docks & Harbour Board: the Board is formed
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Mersey Docks (Finance) Act 1899
53°28′1″N 3°1′12.5″W / 53.46694°N 3.020139°W / 53.46694; -3.020139

Pier Head
dock
Port of Liverpool
River Mersey
Prince's Dock
Seaforth Dock
Liverpool
Great Float
Wirral Peninsula
Peel Ports
Cammell Laird
Tranmere Oil Terminal
Manchester Ship Canal

Blue ensign

Red ensign
Old Dock
wet dock
Creetown
Canada Dock Branch
new container dock at Seaforth
lightvessels
UK Government
Financial Times
Liverpool dockers' strike
Peel Group

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