Pilotage Building

1883 
Unlisted 

The Mersey Approaches were never simple to navigate and an official pilotage system was established under the Liverpool Pilotage Act 1766. During the 1870s a good deal of acrimony arose over the service, which operated in a complex 'arm's length' relationship with the MD&HB. 

In 1881 the Board obtained powers to take over pilotage entirely, and this building, completed in 1883, was to symbolise the new centralisation - and to accommodate the extra bureaucrats. 

Like the Pumphouse, it probably originated as a 'concept sketch' by Lyster, with the detail work by Berrington. Together with the former Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association Steam Pump Shed, it houses the Museum of Liverpool Life.