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Tinpot this is great also, i dont know about a drydock, seems a bit of an awkward place to manouver a boat in to, maybe a loading area for carriages or wagons, looks like maybe a ramp down to it
Mikejee That has answered a few questions, it looks as though fellows used the whole area for a time, leasing it from the grand junction company (number 1), before building their own warehouse in 1935 (number 4) it seems numbers 4 and 5 are mixed up in the index
Im wondering did fellows morton and clayton use warwick wharf or did they build and use their own basin?? The fellows building is not yet built on this picture
The banana warehouse is staying, so im interested in the whole area around the warehouse right up to fazeley street and right across to and including the fellows morton and clayton building, these areas we will be digging and uncovering what was there before
Yes the blue dot will be getting exposed in the future but we are redeveloping the whole site,
In your picture with the blue dot, we are basically uncovering everything that is concrete that you see, a large area
We have already started, roughly from the middle of the site outwards
There are...
Im led to believe the fruit warehouse as it is was built in 1840 although it looks like it had many joining buildings that are now gone,
i may find evidence of old buildings as we strip all of the concrete that covers the site now, im interested in the positions of the old basins especially...
Some maps i have found so far, seems our banana warehouse had another wharf behind any some adjoining buildings, these maps are also before fellows morton and clayton built their premises next door
The address is quite a muddle, junction works, minerva works, warwick wharf, warwick bar, 106/170 fazeley street and all in between, fazeley industrial estate, lots of diffrtent buildings and addresses to find info on
We are only starting but i think this dig is going to be very interesting, LOTS of old cobblestones being dug up, and old footings of buildings, then we have various old filled in canal basins to find, if anybody wants some cobblestones then let me know