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Birkenhead Ferry, opposite Liverpool: dockside scene with men working near a crane. Engraving by J. Davies, 1831, after C. and G. Pyne.

Liverpool: a railway tunnel cut into the mountain side with men working on scaffolding above and cutting stone below. Engraving by J. Davies  after C. and G. Pyne.

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Pyne, Charles Claude, 1802-1878.

Images by Pyne, Charles Claude, 1802-1878.

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Liverpool: a railway tunnel cut into the mountain side with men working on scaffolding above and cutting stone below. Engraving by J. Davies after C. and G. Pyne.

Birkenhead Ferry, opposite Liverpool: dockside scene with men working near a crane. Engraving by J. Davies, 1831, after C. and G. Pyne.