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Georges Dock Ventilation tower

Designer: Herbert J Rowse
Built: 1951 - 1952
Location: Mann Island, behind the Port of Liverpool Building

A majestic and stately tower which hides one of the two main ventilation shafts for the Mersey Tunnels (the other being on the river bank opposite in Birkenhead). Designed by Herbert J Rowse along with the tunnel mouths, the tower was badly damaged in the war and was largely rebuilt by Rowse in 1951-2.

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Top left: Queensway Tunnel ventilation shaft seen from the Anglican Cathedral.
Top right: Detail of decoration on ventilation shaft.
Bottom left: Ventilation shaft seen from street level.
Bottom right: One of the decorative lamps.


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