Tenby, The Five Arches 1890
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Opposite the Five Arches were cottages built so closely that only a man walking or a horse being led could pass between them. Consequently, some 20 years before this photograph was taken, the Tenby Corporation enlarged an arch by knocking out the support, allowing carriages to pass into the town here. It is miraculous that the structurally weakened tower survived. The barrels to the left of the arch probably belong to the Bush Inn, whose cellar entrance can be seen between what were probably the naughty boys who cropped up regularly in local newspapers of the day. Although in 1882 the Great Western Electric Company felt themselves in a position to accept an application for the lighting of Tenby with electricity, the lamp on the arches (left) was probably gas.
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