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Liverpool FC 's iconic Shankly Gates are set to have a new home once the club's newly-redeveloped Main Stand is unveiled later this week.

The gates, erected in honour of legendary Reds manager Bill Shankly after his death in 1981, were put into storage last February after being dismantled from their position on Anfield Road next to the Hillsborough memorial due to the construction work taking place on the Main Stand.

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Now, observers can see they have been moved along Anfield Road to the other side of the ground and have been positioned at the entrance of the Centenary Stand car park.

The gates, which were formally unlocked by Shankly's widow Nessie on August 26, 1982 were incorporated in the club badge during LFC's centenary in 1892 and have remained there ever since.

The idea of a set of gates to honour the man regarded as the pioneer for the club's dynasty of success was first suggested by the ECHO's Horace Yates in 1972, when new gates were put up at the main entrance to the club's car park.

Yates wrote: "The gates, I am told, will be very similar to those at the Lord's cricket ground, which have been named the 'W.G. Grace Gates' to commemorate one of the world's most famous cricketers.

"Surely, here is the spark of an idea for Liverpool.

"Why not name theirs the 'W. Shankly Gates' to perpetuate the name of the man who pulled Liverpool out of the doldrums and led them to the finest phase of their history? For years Anfield and Shankly have been synonymous."