Saturday May 12, 2012
This was my first visit to the Barbican and I was pretty excited. Some of my ancestors lived and worked in several buildings around here - at 3 Parade, 2 Barbican Quay, the Maritime Inn.... Luckily, this area was spared the worst of the bombing in WWII.
I was interested to see something on the railway. Thomas Stevens (my great-great-great grandfather, born in 1799) became a captain of merchant ships and later, like his father, became a shipowner and coal merchant. I had wondered how a shipping family became involved in selling coal. Well, it may have had to do, at least partially, with the arrival of the railway, if it reduced the number of sailing vessel trips needed to transport fruit from place to place.
Walking around the Barbican I smelled vinegar and beer. There are lots of drinking and eating places.
From the far side of the harbour I believe we'd be looking back at Quay Road. Follow it to the right and it becomes the Parade.
A different Co-op store in town was where I did most of my grocery shopping.
Towards the back of Sutton Harbour is more modern.
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