April 6th 2010 - Goree Plazza

A sneak preview of the fountains at Goree Plazza - I'm hoping to go back at night and take a photograph of the fountains illuminated. Goree Plazza was originally two arcaded warehouses in the middle of the old dock road and was named after the island 'Goree', off the west coast of Africa. On the 14th September 1802 the Plazza was gutted by a spectacular fire. In 1817 American author Washington Irving worked here for his family's importing business, which unfortunately went bankrupt. He went on to travel and write his most famous book 'The Sketchbook of Geoffrey Crayon' which contained Americanised versions of European folktales, as well as familiar essays on English life. The old plazza was severely bombed in the air raids of 1941 and it was demolised between 1948 and 1950. In 1967, to mark the completion of the new Plazza, a plaque was presented by Cammell Laird Ship Building Company to the fountain's builders, S & E Limited, and this plaque is still on display today. I like the way lines all compliment each other in this image.