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This was the port of destination or call for such lines as Union Castle, North German Lloyd and American Lines.

After the new Cut Channel was made, gas buoys were used, and the Ribble Port Authorities cut down the timber lighthouse.

Much of the shipping and insurance business of the port was done on this square behind the Town Hall.

The town is just fifteen miles from open sea, near enough to have docks; Preston has been used as a port since 1360.

The war memorial, unveiled in 1921, was designed by Sir William Boscombe John, and stands on the site of Port Sunlight's old gymnasium.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

Barton-upon-Humber was once a rival to the port of Kingston upon Hull on the other side of the river Humber, but it is now a much smaller settlement, and the Market Place confirms that most definitely.

In 1900 the Midland Railway began to develop Heysham as a cross-channel port, ordering four new steamers for the route.

Stourport, with its quay and warehouses, replaced Bewdley as an inland port, and although its commercial traffic has gone, it retains its colourful history.

An obelisk 265 yards below the lock marks the boundary of the jurisdiction of the Port of London Authority and the Environment Agency.

The second was William Hesketh, later Viscount Leverhulme, who came here from Bolton in 1887 and set up his soap factory at Port Sunlight.

Bideford was a busy little quay both for traffic up and down the Taw and Tamar rivers, and for general coasting trade between the north Devon and north Cornwall ports, the Bristol Channel and South

Neither of those ran ferries to the port.

Situated eight miles south-west of Cardiff, Barry was the last of the great Welsh coal ports to be developed.

The corner tower, however, is equipped with wide-mouthed ports allowing the defenders to cover any attempt to climb the slopes.

Neptune was placed here in 1729 to symbolise an ambitious plan to turn Durham into an inland sea port; this would have resulted in the unthinkable - the joining of the rivers Tyne and Wear!

James Knott founded Port Line in 1894, offering a direct service to Alexandria, which was in direct competition with the Liverpool- based Moss Line.

Today the lighthouse is run by the Port of Lancaster Commissioners, and it contains a radio beaconm for Trinity House that forms a major link in the British coastguard system.

which had a semblance of being etched thereon to a degree not deep enough to disturb its general evenness, stretched the whole width of his front and round to the right, where, near the town and port

Today, despite the presence of the two major ports of Harwich and Felixstowe only ten miles away at the mouth of the Orwell, Ipswich remains an important industrial and commercial centre.

Vickerstown was described as 'a Marine Garden City'; there were great similarities between it and Bourneville in Birmingham and Port Sunlight on Merseyside, which were both built later, suggesting that

New Brighton is situated on the extreme tip of the Wirral Peninsula, and is separated from the busy city and port of Liverpool by the River Mersey.

Vickerstown was described as 'a Marine Garden City'; there were great similarities between it and Bourneville in Birmingham and Port Sunlight on Merseyside, which were both built later, suggesting that

In the late 1700s, Bass (after whom the Bass Strait is named) had been apprenticed to Mr Francis who had premises in Strait Bargate, probably on part of the site now covered by Oldrids.