January 18th 2010 - Cantilever Bridge, Stanley Dock

Amazing to think that not too long ago the magnificently restored Albert Dock area looked like this. Stanley Dock is currently derelict, although there are supposedly plans afoot to renovate. This cantilever bridge on Waterloo Road at the dock was the first of its kind. The disused tobacco warehouse behind remains the largest warehouse in the world, amounting to some 27 million bricks. Yet more firsts for the city... A still, grey afternoon made the dock seem even more of an eerily empty ghost town; but I could almost taste the history of the place, so overpowering was the sense of what had gone before.