the river diverted through it in 1811/1812. The parapets have been renewed; there is a main road and a tramway/railway running across the bridge. Evidence of the original tramway was found during renewal of the road surface about 2008. It is thought by some to be the oldest railway bridge in the world still in use, but it has not carried a tramway/railway for the whole of that time. Docks built Clarence Dock – opened 1830 Brunswick Dock – opened 1832 Waterloo Dock – opened 1834 Victoria Dock – opened 1836 Trafalgar Dock – opened 1836 Canning Half-tide Dock – opened 1844 Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool – opened 1845 (officially opened 1846 by the Prince Consort) Salisbury Dock – opened 1848 Collingwood Dock – opened 1848 Stanley Dock – opened 1848 Nelson Dock – opened 1848 Bramley-Moore Dock – opened 1848 Wellington Dock – opened in 1851 Wellington Half-tide Dock Sandon Dock – opened 1849 Huskisson Dock – opened 1852 Canada Dock – opened 1859 Notable buildings Hartley utilised an eclectic mix of styles and methods of construction in the various buildings associated with the docks. These ranged from the cyclopean to ordinary brick built methods and styles as diverse as Greek revival and severe Gothic. Albert Dock Warehouses Wapping Dock warehouse Stanley Dock warehouses Stanley and Wapping Docks’ accumulator towers Canada Dock accumulator tower (demolished) Wapping policeman's lodge Salthouse Dock Transit shed (rebuilt granite gable end survives) Canning Half-tide Dock watchmen's huts Victoria Tower Point Lynas Lighthouse Turton and Entwistle Reservoir Personal life Hartley had one son, J.B. Hartley (1814–1869). References Jesse Hartley – Dock Engineer to the Port of Liverpool 1824–60 – Nancy Ritchie-Noakes, 1980 Buildings of Liverpool – Liverpool Heritage Bureau, 1978 Pevsner Architectural Guides – Liverpool – Joseph Sharples, 2004 Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest - Richard Pollard, Nikolaus Pevsner - 2006 - Yale University Press External links Liverpool Museums – Jesse Hartley 1780 births 1860 deaths Engineers from Liverpool English surveyors Harbour engineers