Liverpool's First Public Baths

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Interesting information, maps, and illustrations, Daz, wsteve55, and Ged!

I'd also be interested to see a picture of the fort.

In Richard Brooke's Liverpool As It Was During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century, pp. 365-367, it's noted that in 1779 the "best proof gunpowder" be lodged in the "Magazines" on the Cheshire shore and to be removed in sufficient quantities for use at "the New Fort and St. George's Battery" in case of an attack by the American privateersman John Paul Jones.

Chris

More history to learn...



I never realized that John Paul Jones was attacking British ships in the Irish sea and raiding ports...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones

The arming of a fort in Liverpool seems like a wise move, I just never realised who the forts were intended to defend against. As a kid, the French instantly came to mind....