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birdseye
You can find a couple of pictures of surviving ones in Google images. There were scores of these around Liverpool at one time, used to block off a street to wagon traffic or set against the corner of building to protect the stonework from the hubs of heavy wagons. I was in the City Lighting Department in Kent Street in the late 70s and there were stacks of them piled up there along with old lamp posts. There was some sort of a drive on to standardise street furniture at the time and so all the 19C stuff had to be removed. I was told at the time that they had been taken from captured ships during the Napoleonic wars but I don't know how true this is. They went for scrap I guess.
It was true. They were mainly captured French guns - some British. They were used in Liverpool and London. On the Corner of St. John's Wood High St and Circus Rd in London a few French cannons are still there with the French crests on the guns.
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There are a few still around Liverpool mainly in the old streets off the Dock Rd.
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