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An article on the listed structures at Bramley Dock.
http://www.thetopbalcony.com/bramley-moore-dock-buildings-form-part-evertons-new-stadium/140
THE BRAMLEY MOORE DOCK BUILDINGS THAT COULD FORM PART OF EVERTON’S NEW STADIUM
If you know your history you’ll know a soulless bowl is not for us.
There’s always been a few iconic things about Goodison Park as a structure – the St Luke’s Church in the corner of the ground, the imposing Main Stand that has seen so many world firsts and Archibald Leitch’s famous criss-cross pattern of the Bullens Road stand.
Ask any away fan coming to Goodison Park; once they’ve had a moan about the view they will generally say it is a ‘proper football stadium’ with history seeping through its wooden seats.
But with a potential new stadium on its way, Everton could be about to lose a slice of its history.
That is, unless the club moves to the Bramley Moore Dock.
It is the only real option for the Blues in terms of location – on the banks of the Royal Blue Mersey and within a stone’s throw of the city centre.
The Bramley Moore Dock, if Everton choose it as a stadium location, also has ready-made history in place for the club to adopt.
While the club will need to fill in the dock itself and build infrastructure from matchday pubs to transport links, there are some buildings that Everton will not be able to demolish. They shouldn’t even want to.
Three buildings in particular are listed, which means Everton cannot demolish them or alter them significantly. Any changes the club would want to make would have to go through a strict planning process and would likely only be restoration or slight changes to make them useful once more.
1. The dock wall
The Bramley Moore Dock Retaining Walls will be a fitting welcome to a new stadium. Imposing and historic, it is a nod to the working class roots of the area but is impressive enough to be associated with the team whose home is behind the brickwork.
The walls were Grade II-listed in 1985 – the year Everton won a league and Cup Winners Cup title – and are older than the club itself, having been built in 1848.
2. The hydraulic tower
The closest actual building to the Bramley Moore Dock itself, the hydraulic tower was once known as the ‘engine house’. It was built five years after Everton were formed in 1883 and originally provided hydraulic power to the dock gates.
The tower is in a state of disrepair but is listed. The entry says: “Engine house, accumulator tower and truncated octagonal chimney.
1883. Common brick with red brick dressings, slate roof. Round-headed windows and entrances; pyramidal roof to accumulator tower; chimney cap missing. “
It would be ideal as a pub – maybe called the Engine Room with pictures of Lee Carsley, Idrissa Gueye and Joe Parkinson on the walls?
3. Victoria Tower
Probably the jewel in the crown of the Bramley Moore Dock, and south of the potential stadium site lies the Victoria Tower, one of Liverpool’s best waterfront buildings.
Built in 1848 to signal the opening of the nearby Salisbury Dock, it was known as the Docker’s Clock and rang its bell when there was high tide or fog on the Mersey.
The clock is Grade II-listed as a building of special architectural and historic interest and has fallen into a state of disrepair. The dock’s owners, Peel, says it will fix it.
The docker’s clock sounding at 3pm to signal kick off has a nice ring to it.
There is a lot of work to go if Everton want to move in to the Bramley Moore Dock. But the more we look at the riverside area the better it looks. The history of our city is closely linked with the fortunes of our magnificent docks, just as much as it is linked with our original and pioneering football club.
It’s time to bring the two together for the beginning of a new era.
