A lost Liverpool road that allowed cars to access ferries at the Pier Head would fall and rise with the tide.
Known as the Floating Road, or the Floating Bridge, it was once the only way for cars to travel across to Birkenhead. The floating road, which was supported on pontoons that rose and fell with the tide, connected St Nicholas' Place near the waterfront to the Prince's Dock Landing Stage.
Built around 1874, not long after the overhead railway first opened, the Floating Road allowed vehicles to drive straight to the landing stage and board the luggage ferries, whatever the state of the tide. In the 1930s, the roadway was a popular access point used by horse-drawn carts, cattle trotting off to market, steam wagons and lorries full of cargo unloaded from ships.
