Volume Thirteen - Pre-Victorian to the Present Day - even more aspects - Slavery - echoes of the past . . . .

1778 - St. Georges Quay, Lancaster - The highlighted house where we stayed complete with attached warehouse was built by Dodshon Foster [1730-1793] a merchant of Lancaster. The nearby Custom House is today the home of the Lancaster Maritime Museum.

Lancaster was an important port during the 18th and early 19th centuries with strong links to slavery. After Bristol, London and Liverpool, Lancaster was the forth most prosperous with much wealth generated from the proceeds of slavery.