Caption For Mumbles, The Pier 1898
The Mumbles railway began as a tramroad authorised by an Act of Parliament in 1804; it carried limestone and coal until one of the original shareholders, Benjamin French, used a horse-drawn wagon to carry
Caption For Boston, The Docks 1890
A new dock was authorised by Act of Parliament in 1881 and was opened in 1882, partly paid for by the Great Northern Railway, who extended a branch line to it.
Caption For Whitby, The Pier 1891
If the railway viaduct carrying the LNER from Teeside to Scarborough is a memorial to its
bricklayers, then how much more should the two piers at the harbour mouth be a tribute to those
men of stone
Caption For Uppingham, Sanatorium C1955
The old sanitorium was not big enough and
one of the first acts of the new head, J F Wolfenden, was to build a new and large sanatorium on Stockerston Road.
Caption For Stafford, St Mary's Church C1950
The nave of St
Mary's acted as the parish church for the town, while the large chancel
was used by a secular College of Canons, responsible to the King, whose
duty was to pray for members of the
Caption For Cromer, The Pier 1906
The bandstand
was the original feature
at the end of the pier, and
the Royal Italian Band
(advertised on one of the
kiosks on the landward
end) were one of the first
visiting bands to have