Work to Liverpool Docks

Chronologically:
1810 - Princes
1830 - Clarence
1834 - Waterloo
1836 - Trafalgar
1848 - Stanley, Collingwood, Nelson, Bramley-Moore, Salisbury.
1850 - Wellington
1851 - Sandon
1852 - Huskisson
1859 - Canada
1862 - Brocklebank
1881 - Langton, Alexandra 1884 - Hornby
1913 - Gladstone Graving
1927 - Gladstone
1972 - Seaforth

Liverpool Dock Work

This page on Liverpool Dock work gives a very small window into what must have been a fascinating cut-throat business. We know that Timothy Grindrod (to whom John had been apprenticed) was the Dock Board contractor for masonry works until his fall from grace for fiddling some of the books. I don't know yet how he died, but it is strange that he should do so leaving a young widow and children except by suicide. We shall see.

Anyway those works were subsequently carried on by his executors (not known if that included John, who by then had become his senior foreman). So the prior and subsequent experience must have dramatically expanded his chances.

Not surprisingly -at the next tender for the masonry works- John won.

Unfinished

The laying of the foundation stone for the opening
of Birkenhead Docks 1845

Hale Church after a complete rebuild following an arson attack. c 1979

Construction of the Plough Inn Runcorn c 1980

Stands for a Royal visit in 1913 on the site of Premier Buildings on the corner of Church Street and Hanover Street. Now a bank