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When it was rebuilt it was moved further away from st james church.
It looks like the map and the picture show the new dock in the same place.
It was not rebuilt twice was it?
Here is it's last location

sorry my gaff - you are right
Just re-read Mark's post in the link

Is there any truth in the rumour that Derek was on the hod when they built the first Dock pub? ;-)

Thanks to all you very knowledgable people of Wirral I have now found the information I wanted and am very grateful for all your help.

Please share the info.
Don't leave us ignorant

I wonder if there was a pig slaughterhouse there as suggested by Mark where the men working there would go for a pint at dinnertime in the Dock and have to hang their aprons so any blood on them would drip into a tub that was put underneath them

wasn't the slaughterhouse on the corner of Townsend and Challis st

double post

The Blood Tub - as you probably know was one of its nicknames - I thought it was from the blood shed by a fair few of its more robust patrons...

I don't have any recollection of the 'new' Graving Dock Hotel name - only associate that with Beaufort Road and the plain old Graving dock Hotel