Ceremony of laying the first stone of the Birkenhead Docks, 1844. The foundation stone is laid at Birkenhead on the River Mersey: '...the spectacle at the moment when the stone has been lowered in its place, and Sir P Egerton [palaeontologist and politicianPhilip de Malpas Grey Egerton] is receiving the trowel'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.
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