Retaining Walls of former Floating Roadway

Retaining Walls of former Floating Roadway and American Transport Operations Memorial
1872-74 
Unlisted 


The Floating Roadway was built between Princes Dock and George's Dock to provide shallow-grade access to the Liverpool landing stage and appears to have utilised the south side of George's Dock Basin. 

It is constructed in granite after the manner of Jesse Hartley. The Floating Roadway was fixed at the east end at ground level and attached at the west end to the landing stage, which rose and fell with the tide.   

The retaining walls on the north and south sides were later extended out to provide new river walls, and after World War II were partly rebuilt in brick with early concrete lamp columns, and a memorial was added to the south side of the south wall to commemorate the American Transport operations during the war. 

More recently the cut has been shortened at its east end to accommodate a pumping station but the wall plinth and the two piers were retained.