Welcome to the Mersey docks!

Explore the people, trades and ships that turned this quiet fishing area into a world-famous port.

There are two ways to explore this site.

Click on a topic

Some of the docks involved will light up. Click on them to learn what they did or ask for more information.

Click on the timeline

Watch the map change over the years. What was happening in the world and what were the docks doing at the time? Click to find out.

If you see click to see a picture.

There have been so many Mersey docks that we've only been able to include a small sample. However it gives you a taster of what happened and still goes on at this great port.

Are you ready to begin the voyage? If so click here.