From Picture of Liverpool: Stranger's Guide Written in 1834
A few years ago this dock was repaired, when new walls were erected a little further back than where the original ones stood. The west side is 150 yards in length. On the west side are Nos 1, 2 and 3 Graving Docks, which communicate with this and are used for the repairing of vessels. The shipping which frequent this dock are chiefly employed in the coasting trade, and import corn and other productions peculiar to this kingdom and in return take the various foreign products brought into this port. About five years since, the buildings which occupied the east side of this dock, as well as the whle of those situate on the west side of Strand-street, were entirely removed