'The dock engineer and the development of the Port of Liverpool' in V Burton (ed), Liverpool Shipping, Trade and Industry. Essays on the maritime history of Merseyside, 1780-1860

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Deals with the engineers responsible for the construction of the docks of the port of Liverpool from 1710 to 1860 through focusing and contrasting the work of Thomas Steers, at work 1710-50, and Jesse Hartley, at work 1824-60, but covering a ten year period in the middle of his Liverpool career