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The gates of the Liverpool Sailors' Home gates were designed between 1846 and 1852 by John Cunningham and Henry Pooley jnr. They were constructed at Pooley & Son’s Albion Foundry.
During their time in Liverpool one of the heavy, sliding panels twice came away from their rails causing two deaths (1852 and 1907).
These are the gates in the early 1990s near the Avery Historical Museum inside the Sandwell Site.
The gates were moved to this site from Liverpool in 1951 after being purchased from the Liverpool Sailors' Home Committee. (The gates had to be removed to allow repairs to war damage and modernisation.) Pooley’s operations had moved to Birmingham in 1931 when theie Liverpool foundry was demolished to make way for the Mersey Tunnel entrance. Pooley & Son became part of the W & T Avery Group of companies. The Sailors’ Home gates were purchased for the company’s collection as unique example of Pooley’s decorative ironwork.
The gates were removed to Wolverhampton for repair in 2010.