Ellesmere Port

This fascinating selection of old photographs of Ellesmere Port shows the town in fine detail, and some of the major changes it has seen over the last hundred years. The once busy port with its warehouses and ships is portrayed in its heyday. We see the sailing ships that lined the docks and we meet some of the many people who were employed in the dockside factories and warehouses, including workers from the flour mills and the corrugated iron works. The port won much trade at the time by o...