West Bay, The Harbour c.1955
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Timber from Scandinavia, with a builder's merchant's lorry and cranes, stand on the Quay beside 1864-built Pier Terrace (right). The view is south-eastwards to the Bay House Cafe and East Cliff (centre). Dubbed Noah's Ark and debunked by royal surgeon and Dorset writer Sir Frederick Treves - 'as out of place as an iron girder in a flower garden' - Pier Terrace still comes in for criticism. Edward Schroeder Prior (the architect) had studied under Norman Shaw, whose personal legacy in Dorset was the replacement of historic Bryanston House in red brick.
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