Herculaneum Dock
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Herculaneum Dock was part of the Port of Liverpool in Liverpool, England. It was situated at the south end of the Liverpool dock system, on the River Mersey. To the north it was connected to Harrington Dock.
The dock was named after the Herculaneum Pottery Company that had occupied the site before.
From 1767, the area that would become the dock was used for unloading.
In 1864, a new dock designed by George Fosbery Lyster was blasted from the fore shore, providing two graving docks. This dock opened in 1866. Ten years later, a third graving dock was added.
Beginning in 1873, the dock handled petroleum. In 1878, specialist casemates were built to store this and other volatile cargo. The dock continued in this capacity until the task of oil handling was transferred across the river to Tranmere Oil Terminal and Stanlow Oil Refinery.
In 1972, Herculaneum Dock closed. In the 1980s, it was filled in.
The area south of the dock contained a tank farm; this was reclaimed for the Liverpool Garden Festival and residential properties.
