Editing Herculaneum Dock (section)

==History==
From 1767, a [[tide|tidal]] basin in the area that would become the dock was used for unloading copper for a smelting works.<ref name="LHOL">{{cite web|url=http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=289|title=Herculaneum Dock|work=Liverpool History Online|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090116230912/http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/lhol/content.aspx?itemid=289|archivedate=16 January 2009}}</ref> Between 1794 and 1841 it was the site of a pottery. In 1864, a new dock designed by [[George Fosbery Lyster]] was blasted from the foreshore, providing two [[graving dock]]s. This dock opened in 1866.<ref name="liverpoolecho.co.uk">{{cite news|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/herculaneum-dock-tower-block-plans-7095767|title=Tower block planned for Herculaneum dock|first=Tom|last=Duffy|work=Liverpool Echo|date=9 May 2014|accessdate=30 August 2016}}</ref> Ten years later, a third graving dock was added.<ref name="Trading Places: Herculaneum Dock History">{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history12.html|title=Trading Places: Herculaneum Dock History|work=Liverpool Museums|accessdate=24 March 2008|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907091657/http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/nof/docks/access/dock_history12.html|archivedate=7 September 2009}}</ref>

Beginning in 1873, the dock handled [[petroleum]]. In 1878, specialist [[casemate]]s were built to store this and other volatile cargo within the [[sandstone]] cliffs above. The dock continued in this capacity until the task of oil handling was transferred across the river to [[Tranmere Oil Terminal]] and [[Stanlow Oil Refinery]]. During 1881 the dock facility was enlarged further and a fourth graving dock was constructed in 1902.<ref name="Trading Places: Herculaneum Dock History" />

Liverpool remained an important port during the [[Second World War]], with Herculaneum Dock acting as a terminus for the [[Battle of the Atlantic|North Atlantic Convoys]].<ref name="Trading Places: Herculaneum Dock History" />

Herculaneum Dock was formerly served by its own station on the [[Liverpool Overhead Railway]]. The station (and railway) closed on 30 December 1956. By 1958 demolition of the station had been completed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/h/herculaneum_dock/|title=Station Name: Herculaneum Dock (2nd)|work=Disused Stations|accessdate=30 August 2016}}</ref>

Herculaneum Dock closed in 1972,<ref name="liverpoolecho.co.uk"/> being filled in during the 1980s to create a car park.