Running across the middle of the picture is the weir, which maintained the head of water; it has now been removed during the re-management of the Avon.
Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its
newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it
very prominent
Built as a town house for the lead mine-owner Charles Bathurst of Arkengarthdale c1720, its
newly-fashionable hand-made bricks, three-storey height and eight bays must then have made it
very prominent
The
plank serving as a gangway to the
vessel from the bank had, until
comparatively recent legislation,
been the cause of many an
accident as crew returned to their
various ships after
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