Pier Head Mersey Ferry Pavilion

Just visible at the top of the Pier Head passenger ramp (which leads down to the Ferry landing stage) can be seen conical a 'tent-like structure'. This taught canopy gave the otherwise nondescript building the look of a small pavilion. It housed the visitors' centre which dispensed Ferry Across the Mersey tickets and replaced an earlier prefabricated ferry complex which had dated from the 1960's. This small 'pavilion' was dismantled within the last year or so prior to the excavation of a brand new section of canal beneath the 'Three Graces'. Other major construction is still in progress there. The following post is a pinhole photograph I made on Christmas Day 2008. Evidence that a new ferry building is under construction can be seen to the right.

Photograph: Looking up river from the old (now dismantled) Princes landing stage. April 1991.

Sean