Albert Dock - Liverpool

It was supposed to be already known which new sites would be classified as World Heritage Sites, but the committee meeting, scheduled for June, was postponed and there is still no new date. In these meetings it is decided which sites receive world heritage status but it is also decided which sites are inscribed on the List of World Heritage in Danger and which sites are deslisted. That's exactly what happened to Liverpool Maritime Mercantile City last year. 

Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2004 and on the List of World Heritage in Danger in 2012 following concerns about the proposed development of Liverpool Waters. The project has since gone ahead along with other developments both inside the site and in its buffer zone.  
The Committee decided to delete the property “Liverpool – Maritime Mercantile City” (UK) from the World Heritage List, due to the irreversible loss of attributes conveying the outstanding universal value of the property. - in: https://whc.unesco.org

Albert Dock was one of the locations classified and the card was sent by Adam.

Top photopgraph: Anita Smith

The Albert Dock is a complex of dock buildings and warehouses located to the south of the Pier Head. Designed by Jesse Hartley and Philip Hardwick and opened in 1846, the Albert Dock warehouses were the first in the world to be entirely fireproof, due to their construction from only iron, brick and stone, with no structural wood. The dock was home to many advances in docking technology including being the first to have hydraulic cranes.

 During World War II the buildings suffered significant damage and general docking decline in the city after the end of the war saw them fall rapidly into disrepair. In the 1980s the area underwent massive regeneration after the creation of the Merseyside Development Corporation and the complex was reopened to the public in 1984, as part of the tall ships festival. 

Today they form a focal point for tourism in the city, being home to Tate Liverpool, Merseyside Maritime Museum and The Beatles Story. They also constitute the largest single collection of Grade I listed buildings anywhere in the UK. - in: wikipedia