Waterfront Blues: The Rise and Fall of Liverpool's Docklands

by Brian Towers

For more than three centuries the port was at the very heart of Liverpool's story. Foreign trade was the lifeblood of the economy, and the docks were full of ships from around the world. The people who found employment in Liverpool's docks generally lived close to their work, and the dockland communities inshore were just as vibrant, noisy and jam-packed as the docks themselves. Brian Towers was ideally placed to write this book. A university professor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185936179X
• ISBN13: 9781859361795
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Carnegie Pub.
• Length: 376 Pages