YOUR PROJECT
TIMELINE
Plans for docks conceptualised W allasey dock opens Animal trade is booming. 50% of Britains sheep/cattle pass through here. Vittoria dock expanded to absorb larger ships.
Corn warehouses built on the Great float to store grain
Vittoria dock opens. Used by east asian traders.
Merseyside Development Corporation created to bring European funds to regenerate Birkenhead.
Emigrants use East Float to leave for Australia
Docks built in South W ales. Birkenhead not needed for exporting W elsh coal.
Trade reduces with Asian and European ports competing.
Morpeth & Egerton docks open
Alfred dock opens
Railway network builds around docks
Dock side mills process imported grains to reduce transporting costs
Bidston dock opens, dealing in general cargoes.
W allasey & Bidston docks filled up.
1820
1847
1851
East Float opens
1855
1860
W est Float opens
1866
1868
Increase in grain trade
1870
1870
1871
1873
1877
1878
1880
1885
1893
1894
1897
1900
1909
1920
1933
1939
1950
1952
1960
1970
Many docks not used
1980
2000
2002
2006
Slaughterhouses built to quanrantine sick animals
Good refridgeration reduces live animal trade.
Birkenhead trading peaks, 13% of Liverpool share.
Trading sheep and cattle picks up
Oil & Petrol trade grows
Miners strikes implies more coal imports and trade.
Morpeth & Egerton quay side developed into industry, offices & museums.
Concrete casements built at West Float to store oil & petrol
Manchester Ship Canal built to avoid Liverpool
Great Float developed into the 'Twelve Quays'. Transporting cargo & people to Ireland.
Iron ore handled at Bidston dock
PROJECT DETAILS
DATE100% 1820.00 80% 1847.00 1851.00 1855.00 60% 1860.00 1866.00 40% 1868.00 1870.00 20% 1870.00 1871.00 1873.00 1877.00 1878.00 1880.00 1885.00 1893.00 1894.00 1897.00 1900.00 1909.00 1920.00 1933.00 1939.00 1950.00 1952.00 1960.00 1970.00 1980.00 2000.00 2002.00 2006.00 0% 1820 MILESTONE Plans for docks conceptualised Morpeth & Egerton docks open East Float opens POSITION 25 5 -5 Column1 DATE2 1820.00 1847.00 1851.00 1855.00 1860.00 1866.00 1868.00 1870.00 1870.00 1871.00 1870 1873.00 1871 1877.00 1878.00 Trading activity 0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 6% 7% 8% 9% 10% 1873 15% 20% 20% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 80% 85% 90% 100% 95% 75% 55% 35% 1877 1878 1880
Trading activity
Emigrants use East Float to leave for Australia 10 West Float opens Alfred dock opens Increase in grain trade -5 5 -5
Corn warehouses built on the Great float to store 15 grain Trading sheep and cattle picks up Railway network builds around docks -10 5
Concrete built Float to store -15 oil 1868 & petrol 1870 1847 casements 1851 1855at West 1860 1866 Wallasey dock opens 20
1885
1893
1894
1897
1900
1909
1920
1933
1939
1950
1952
1960
1970
1980
2000
2002
2006
Slaughterhouses built to quanrantine sick animals -5
Docks built in South Wales. Birkenhead not needed 10 for exporting Welsh coal.1880.00 Oil & Petrol trade grows -10 1885.00 1893.00 1894.00 1897.00 1900.00 1909.00 1920.00 1933.00 1939.00 1950.00 1952.00 1960.00 1970.00
Dock side mills process imported grains to reduce 5 transporting costs Manchester Ship Canal built to avoid Liverpool -15 Animal trade is booming. 50% of Britains sheep/cattle 20 pass through here. Good refridgeration reduces live animal trade. -5 Vittoria dock opens. Used by east asian traders. 15 Miners strikes implies more coal imports and trade. -10 Bidston dock opens, dealing in general cargoes.5 Birkenhead trading peaks, 13% of Liverpool share. -5 Vittoria dock expanded to absorb larger ships. 20 Iron ore handled at Bidston dock -20
Trade reduces with Asian and European ports competing. 10 Many docks not used -5
Merseyside Development Corporation created to 15 bring European funds to regenerate 1980.00 Birkenhead. 15% Great Float developed into the 'Twelve Quays'. -15 Transporting cargo & people to 2000.00 Ireland. Wallasey & Bidston docks filled up. 5 2002.00 2006.00 5% 2% 0%
Morpeth & Egerton quay side developed into industry, -10 offices & museums.
