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Dear All,

 

A Friday question for the forum. A 1793 plan of Liverpool in the National Archives (MR 1/937), photographed by Mark Adams recently, shows an unusual structure on the foreshore of the River Mersey. It looks to me like a pair of tanks and the name suggests it was for delivery of live fish. Mark says he worked on something similar in the Fleet valley in London but has not seen the report so does not know what it was interpreted as. There does not appear to be a monument thesaurus entry for this type of structure (fish garth is similar but reads more like a fish farm than a delivery point). Searching online brings up restaurants and lots about Grimsby.

 

Does anyone know of a good source of information for this sort of structure?

 

 

 

All the best,

Ben

 

 

Dr Ben Croxford MCIfA

Historic Environment Record Officer

 

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