Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and ManchesterDrake, James, active 1825
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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway: from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester
Drake, James, active 1825
Grand Junction Railway Company (Great Britain) -- Guidebooks; Railroad travel -- Great Britain -- Guidebooks
Guy’s Cliff, near Warwick, 21.
Lichfield Cathedral, 17.
Leamington Spa, 22.
Hagley Park, 12.
LIVERPOOL
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS.
Theatre Royal, East Williamson Square.
Royal Amphitheatre, Great Charlotte-street.
The Liver Theatre, at the top of Church-street.
Queen’s Theatre, or Circus, Christian-street.
Sans Pareil, Great Charlotte-street.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND OBJECTS OF ATTRACTION.
Botanical Gardens, Edge Lane; admittance by ticket, to be obtained at all
the Hotels.
Custom House, Excise, Dock Office, Post Office, under the same roof,
South Castle-street.
Cemetery, St. James’s, top of Duke-street.
— Necropolis, Low Hill.
Exchange, Castle-street.
House of Industry, Brownlow Hill.
Infirmary, Dover-street.
Lunatic Asylum, Brownlow Hill.
Pistol Gallery, Tarlton-street, Williamson Square.
Sessions House, situate at the West of the Exchange.
Statue of George the Third, bottom of Pembroke Place, in London Road.
Telegraph, bottom of Chapel-street. May be visited on application to
Lieut. Watson, at the Office.
Town Hall, Castle-street.
Wellington Rooms, Great Orford-street.
Zoological Gardens; an order, which may be obtained at any of the
respectable Hotels, will, on the payment of a shilling, admit a stranger.
BATHS.
The New Baths, West side of St. George’s Dock.
Whitlaw’s Vapour Baths, Renshaw-street.
Sadler’s Baths, Hanover-street.
The Floating Bath, Prince’s Parade.
THE DOCKS.
Clarence Dock, for steam packets.
Prince’s Dock, American ships.
George’s Dock, in which is moored the Floating Church, for the
convenience of seamen.
The King’s Dock; vessels from Virginia and other ports, laden with
tobacco.
The Waterloo Dock, Victoria Dock, and Trafalgar Dock, communicate with
each other.
Canning Dock; vessels from the Northern ports, and in the coasting trade.
Salt-house Dock, for ships in the Levant and Irish trade.
Duke of Bridgewater’s Dock, for boats called flats, in the canal trade.
Queen’s Dock, for timber ships from America and the Baltic.
Brunswick Dock, vessels laden with timber.
GRAVING DOCKS. Nos. 1, 2, and 3, communicate with the Canning Dock; Nos.
4, 5, and 6, lie between the Queen’s Dock and the river; two Graving
Docks are attached to the Brunswick Dock.
THE MARKETS.
St. John’s Market, Great Charlotte-street.
New Fish Market, opposite St. John’s Market.
The North Market, Scotland-street.
St. James’s Market, Great George-street.
Islington Market, top of Shaw’s Row.
Cattle Market, three miles on the London Road.
Corn Exchange, Brunswick-street.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS.
The Royal Institutions, Colquitt-street.
Philosophical and Literary Society; meetings held at the Royal
Institution.
Apothecaries’ Hall, Colquitt-street.
Mechanics’ Institution, Mount-street.
Athenæum, Church-street.
Lyceum, Bold-street.
Apprentices’ (Male and Female) Library, School Lane.
Law Library, Clarendon Buildings.
Union News Room, Duke-street.
PUBLIC CHARITIES.
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