Hi Chris, thanks for your comments.
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The Fort: I haven't come across a picture of it yet, but I'm sure one will exist, as it stood on the site from 1781-1820. It was equiped with 'eighteen and thirty-two pounders', source: also Richard Brooke's
Liverpool As It Was During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century, pp.371. Also, Dr William Moss, writing in,
The Liverpool Guide, goes further to say that 'a strong guard of soldiers is always kept here. It is open for public recreation...[affording]...a very adventageous view down the river...from which point the
rock point may be very distinctly observed'. pp.83
There was also an ealrlier battery kept on a raised section of ground, west [and adjoining] St. Nicholas Churches graveyard (see map).
[1848 OS map, courtesy of LRO]
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