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The Red Plaque reads: Institution of Civil Engineers. Liverpool Overhead Railway 1893 - 1956 Engineers Sir Douglas Fox & J.M. Greathead.

The Goree Warehouses, built 1793, were named after a slave embarkation island off Senegal, West Africa, which also gave its name to the adjacent road by St Nicholas's Church known as Goree Piazza. There is a folk belief that iron hoops in the walls were used to chain up African slaves but this is untrue. The Warehouses were built 11 years after the courts ruled that every slave became free as soon as his feet touched English soil.

ref: 01318 - 12th May 2022

taken with: Sony RX 100 III

The SPEAR Summit Challenge is a five-day tactical law enforcement training competition for Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) teams - quick-response forces trained and funded by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA). SPEAR teams respond rapidly to crises involving U.S. diplomatic facilities or personnel.

The competition covers tactical-response skills such as weapons and range familiarization; tactical medicine, locating and evacuating personnel during an emergency; IED recognition; and moving as a team through an obstacle course, Dec. 6, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

The SPEAR Summit Challenge is a five-day tactical law enforcement training competition for Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) teams - quick-response forces trained and funded by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA). SPEAR teams respond rapidly to crises involving U.S. diplomatic facilities or personnel.

The competition covers tactical-response skills such as weapons and range familiarization; tactical medicine, locating and evacuating personnel during an emergency; IED recognition; and moving as a team through an obstacle course, Dec. 6, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

The SPEAR Summit Challenge is a five-day tactical law enforcement training competition for Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) teams - quick-response forces trained and funded by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA). SPEAR teams respond rapidly to crises involving U.S. diplomatic facilities or personnel.

The competition covers tactical-response skills such as weapons and range familiarization; tactical medicine, locating and evacuating personnel during an emergency; IED recognition; and moving as a team through an obstacle course, Dec. 6, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

The SPEAR Summit Challenge is a five-day tactical law enforcement training competition for Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) teams - quick-response forces trained and funded by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA). SPEAR teams respond rapidly to crises involving U.S. diplomatic facilities or personnel.

The competition covers tactical-response skills such as weapons and range familiarization; tactical medicine, locating and evacuating personnel during an emergency; IED recognition; and moving as a team through an obstacle course, Dec. 6, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

The SPEAR Summit Challenge is a five-day tactical law enforcement training competition for Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) teams - quick-response forces trained and funded by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA). SPEAR teams respond rapidly to crises involving U.S. diplomatic facilities or personnel.

The competition covers tactical-response skills such as weapons and range familiarization; tactical medicine, locating and evacuating personnel during an emergency; IED recognition; and moving as a team through an obstacle course, Dec. 6, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

The SPEAR Summit Challenge is a five-day tactical law enforcement training competition for Special Program for Embassy Augmentation Response (SPEAR) teams - quick-response forces trained and funded by the Diplomatic Security Service’s Office of Antiterrorism Assistance (ATA). SPEAR teams respond rapidly to crises involving U.S. diplomatic facilities or personnel.

The competition covers tactical-response skills such as weapons and range familiarization; tactical medicine, locating and evacuating personnel during an emergency; IED recognition; and moving as a team through an obstacle course, Dec. 6, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor (left) runs with a member of the SPEAR team from Niger during a live-fire obstacle course at the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

Members of the Senegalese Gendarmerie participate in a shooting exercise during the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor observes as a member of the SPEAR team from Chad lines up a shot in a live-fire accuracy event during the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A member of the Senegal National Polices ties a tourniquet on a dummy during a tactical obstacle course at the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 5, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A member of the Senegal National Polices ties a tourniquet on a dummy during a tactical obstacle course at the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 5, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor observes as a member of the SPEAR team from Chad lines up a shot in a live-fire accuracy event during the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor (left) observes as a member of the SPEAR team from Kenya races to the next checkpoint during a live-fire obstacle course as part of the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A member of the SPEAR team from Niger runs toward his next checkpoint during a live-fire obstacle course at the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor observes as the SPEAR team from Mali simulates evacuating the wounded during a tactical obstacle course at the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

Members of the Senegalese Gendarmerie participate in a shooting exercise during the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor observes as the SPEAR team from Kenya participates in a live-fire accuracy event during the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor coaches a member of the Senegalese Gendarmerie during a live-fire obstacle course at the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)

A DSS SPEAR instructor observes as a member of the SPEAR team from South Sudan loads ammunition after completing a physical fitness test as part of a live-fire accuracy event during the 2019 SPEAR Summit Challenge, Dec. 4, 2019, Thiès, Senegal. (U.S. Department of State photo)