Excerpt from Southward Ho: And Other Essays
Those who remember Liverpool before the multi-domed Dock Offices and the sky-scraper of the Royal Liver Insurance Company flaunted themselves on the pier-head, overtopping the tallest spars of the fleetest barques of the South Sea trade, and making even the colossal red funnels of the Mauretania look like toys, will remember also the St. George"s Dock. And if they are further companioned by a sentimental regard for old familiar things, as which of us is not, they will no doubt resent somewhat the intrusion of those arrogant monsters of iron and stone, modern hybrids of building construction, half engineering and half architecture, usurping the place of that same old rectangular basin of muddy green water. For do they not stand precisely where it once stood?
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