Leeds-Liverpool Canal, Liverpool Exchange Station
The Leeds-Liverpool Canal was built in sections, with the section going into Liverpool being the first to be started, in 1770. Though it was not the first to open, this section reached Newburgh in 1774, and Wigan in 1781. It would be 1816 before the canal at Wigan connected to the Lancaster Canal, and hence the rest of the Leeds-Liverpool. Its terminus in Liverpool was originally Old Hall Street Basin, where Old Hall Street becomes Great Howard Street, and meet Leeds Street. I wonder if Leeds Street took it name from the canal. In 1846 a short link was built connecting the canal to Stanley Dock, giving access to the rest of the docks - at least until Georges Dock was filled in, at which point access to the south docks was only possible via the river, until a linking canal was built in 2009. A major railway terminus was built not far from here, Liverpool Exchange, in 1850, and the railway was obliged to raise the tracks to clear the canal. Such was the power of the railway companies tha