Time Team came to Liverpool for this special documentary as the city celebrated its 800th anniversary in 2007 and prepared for its role as European City of Culture in 2008.
Some of the regular team members, including Phil Harding (on unfamiliar urban turf), Helen Geake, Stewart Ainsworth and Jonathan Foyle, joined local experts and other archaeologists to investigate the landscape, explore the buildings that made Liverpool great and, most importantly, follow the archaeology as a series of huge digs took place in advance of three major building projects.
The first of these sites was on the waterfront at the Pier Head, where preparations for a new museum uncovered one of Liverpool's first docks. The second, a little way inland, was being cleared to make way for new development; here archaeologists were looking to explore a long-vanished, early dockside settlement. The biggest prize, though, the site of Liverpool's first dock, lay under the billion-pound, 42-acre Paradise Project.
Time Team followed the archaeologists as they investigated the three sites ahead of the new construction work.
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