"In autumn of 1799, a ship decided to announce it's arrival: 'unknown to the gunner, the ball had not been withdrawn. The shot entered the town near the south end of the dry dock, carried off the arm of a cooper... passing the corner of the Old Dock, it killed William Treasure the mate of the ship William and another man, a roper ... who was standing at the bottom of Hanover Street ...[it] ...struck the corner of a house, and 'severly wounded another man. Since this accident no ship has been allowed to salute the town, under a penalty of £10"

Stranger in Liverpool





68 years later [1867] the cannon sounded again.