The Custom House, Lancaster is a grade II* listed building located on St Georges Quay, Lancaster,

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. The architect was Richard Gillow of the Gillow furniture making family. Designed in 1764 for the Port Commissioners, it was used for its original purpose until 1882 when the Customs were transferred to

Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-in-Furness is a port town in Cumbria, England. Historic counties of England, Historically in Lancashire, it was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1867 and merged with Dalton-in-Furness Urban District in 1974 to form the Borough of B ...

Lancaster Maritime Museum

The Custom House has housed the Lancaster Maritime Museum since 1985. Adjacent to the Custom House is a later

bonded warehouse A bonded warehouse, or bond, is a building or other secured area in which dutiable goods may be stored, manipulated, or undergo manufacturing operations without payment of duty. It may be managed by the state or by private enterprise. In the ...

, which forms part of the Maritime Museum. The museum's exhibits include local fishing vessels, ship models, area merchants and trade, including the

slave trade Slavery and enslavement are both the state and the condition of being a slave—someone forbidden to quit one's service for an enslaver, and who is treated by the enslaver as property. Slavery typically involves slaves being made to perf ...

, the

Lancaster Canal The Lancaster Canal is a canal in North West England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria ( historically in Westmorland). The section around the crossing of the River Ribble was never complete ...

, area fishing industry, the development of the local ports of Glasson,

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, Sunderland Point, and Morecambe, and the social and natural history of

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