Search Results

This substantial civic building was the gift of a local J P, and befits a leading Irish port serving the daily Royal Mail run to Stranraer.

The main port lay north of this point, since a medieval three- arched stone bridge blocked the further passage of tall craft upstream along the River Parrett; even in the early 20th century,

Wells was a port long before it became a tourist town, as the functional harbour and large warehouses make clear.

The earlier houses built at Port Sunlight were a mixture of styles.

Marlow, and Henley further up river, were important inland ports handling mainly the corn, malt and timber of the Chiltern Hills behind them.

In 1740 Mevagissey ranked fourth among the Cornish pilchard ports, which between them had built up a lucrative trade exporting millions of pilchards each year to places like Italy.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

A motte and bailey castle, one of the earliest in England, was erected here soon after the Norman Conquest, for at that time Norwich was an important town and a major port. A

Note the ornate machicolations adorning the tops of the gatehouse towers; there were also gun-ports at the base of the walls, obscured by bushes in this photograph.

When it opened in 1860, it was 1,200 yards long and had a landing stage where steamers from the Isle of Man, North Wales, and several west-coast ports made scheduled stops during the season.

In early days Queenhithe on the north bank of the Thames was a significant port for the landing of fish and corn.

Botley, once a small inland port, stands at the head of navigation on the River Hamble, and barges travelled upstream for corn, coal and timber until the early 20th century.

Serving both a rural area round about, and hundreds of overseas ports by way of trade, Plymouth reached its mercantile heyday in Victorian times.

The quay and the large warehouses in the background are evidence that the port was one of the most important in Wales during the early 19th century.

Axmouth, the last coastal community wholly in Devon, was an important port until its river entrance silted up.

The pride of the stationmaster at Burry Port is typical of the time - it was considered the stationmaster's duty to make the platform as attractive as possible.

A royal burgh and port, Irvine was, by the 1920s, a town of 7,000 inhabitants.

existence of abandoned gun emplacements, storage lockers and searchlights were reminders of how heavily defended this stretch of coastline was – it had been vital to protect the Severn Estuary and the ports

After Weymouth harbour was dredged and improved in 1888, larger ships joined the trade routes between the town and foreign ports.

This early photograph gives evidence that Boscastle was indeed a trading port, with a small schooner and smacks lying aground at half-tide.

It was so successful that an extension was then dug to the port at Runcorn.

Things improved in the mid-1970s when Castletown was upgraded to handle a container service, resulting in the port handling 15 per cent of imports and 20 per cent of exports.

They depict the arms of Ralph Lemyngton, who was a prosperous wool merchant, and the Staple of Calais, the French port to which most wool was sent.

A row of houses, beginning with the headland church tower, lies almost subdued below the tree-covered hills overlooking this bustling sea port. A