pier head dig

Response to my story about artefacts discovered on the site of the new Pier Head canal link has come from Councillor Frank Doran.
I reported that archaeologists thought carved chunks of sandstone used as a makeshift barrier under ground in front of the Three Graces may have come from an early liverpool town hall.

Now Councillor Doran has come forward to suggest another source.
He believes the blocks may be all that is left of the old Liverpool Tower which stood on the site of where the Tower Building is now situated next to St Nick's church.
If anyone else has any more suggestions or information, please let me know.
By the by, the row over the Mann Island/Manchester Dock site rumbles on.
Opponents of the new Museum of Liverpool are fighting a rearguard action to try and preserve the entire Manchester Dock in situ, while even historical experts and archaeologists who have seen the work or the plans for the new museum are disappointed.
When NML talked about 'preserving the dock in situ' beneath the new building, the tone of the phrase led many people to assume museum bosses were to find some way of showing off a portion of the old dock - maybe beneath a glass floor section for example.
But NML has now admitted the design and the structure means that won't be happening, and the 18th century dock will be buried once and for all underneath the new X-bunker.
The experts are right, it's a missed opportunity.
I know NML boss David Fleming often sees the media as the 'enemy' which can't or won't share NML's (and therfore his) vision.
But in this case, NML hasn't needed any help from the media because the way it has handled what was always bound to be a contentious issue has proved it its own worst enemy.