Moored in the centre of Liverpool!

We have arrived at Salthouse dock in the centre of Liverpool.  The convoy of 10 boats booked to make the trip set off from the moorings at 8am and met up with the C&RT staff who were to support us on the journey, opening the swing bridges and working the locks.

There are some attractive 19th century bridges in Liverpool, oddly a plaque states that they were built by the Health Committee

A Liver Bird perches on the top of the Liver Building

Everything ran smoothly as we travelled through the pleasant suburbs, then the less pleasant industrial areas, before arriving at the docks.  The canal was fairly clean for a large city with only two supermarket trolleys encountered.  We were also pleasantly surprised by how little graffiti there was, almost all of it looking quite old.

Densie moored in Salthouse Dock - second boat from the front

The dock area is very impressive, one empty dock after another connected by new canal, tunnels, and two separate locks.  The canal goes past the Liver Building with its grotesque birds on the roof next to the two other spectacular victorian buildings that comprise "the three graces" and finishes in Albert Dock with its restaurants and art gallery which leads into Salthouse Dock near the shopping centre where there are extensive moorings for narrowboats and cruisers.

Unfortunately most of this final part of the journey was undertaken in the rain which limited the number and quality of photographs.  Hopefully we will be able to take better ones later.