Editing Great Float (section)

==Docks==
[[File:Dkbkpl31.jpg|thumb|right|The Great Float in 1909, divided between the East & West Floats]]
The following docks were originally accessible from the Great Float:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Dock
! Opened
! Closed
! Details
|-
| [[Alfred Dock]]
| 1866
| 
| Entrance from/exit to River Mersey.
|-
| [[Bidston Dock]]
| 1933
| 2002-3 <!-- Dates vary -->
| Filled in.
|-
| [[Egerton Dock]]
| 1847
| 
| Not used. Passage to Great Float closed.
|-
| [[Vittoria Dock]]
| 1909
| 
|
|-
| [[Wallasey Dock]]
| 1877
| 2001
| Filled in. Site is part of the [[Twelve Quays]] development.
|-
|}

In addition, three [[graving dock]]s existed in the Great Float for ship repairs. Bidston No.3 Dock remains in use as part of the facilities of [[Cammell Laird|Cammell Laird Shiprepairers and Shipbuilders Ltd]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.clbh.co.uk/facilities/bidston-repair-birth|title=Bidston Repair Berth|publisher=Cammell Laird|access-date=31 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160821054445/http://www.clbh.co.uk/facilities/bidston-repair-birth|archive-date=21 August 2016}}</ref> The other graving docks were filled in during the 1980s.<ref>{{citation
 |url=http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/pages/Bir%20Dks%20051.html
 |title=Birkenhead Docks (photo 51) 
 |publisher=Merseyside Views 
 |access-date=3 July 2009 
 |url-status=usurped
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927123109/http://www.merseysideviews.com/Merseyside%20Docks/Birkenhead/pages/Bir%20Dks%20051.html 
 |archive-date=27 September 2011 
 |df=dmy-all 
}}</ref>