Images and text from Round the Coast, published by George Newness in 1895.
Photographs taken in the UK by a British citizen and published in the UK before 1945 are out of copyright.
Title: Round The Coast
Published by: George Newness Limited
City: London
Date: 1895
Total items: 6
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
1.—Scarborough: General View of the South Bay
A fairly crowded beach even by modern standards, with Victorian bathing machines.
From a Photo. by Poulton & Son.
“This has been called the “Queen of English Watering-Places,” and is at least unrivalled on the eastern coast of England. Spread out like an amphitheatre upon a bay and promontory looking over the German ocean, its houses rise tier behind tier away from the sea. Scarborough is sheltered on the north-east by a precipitous rock, near the top of which is a level space of about nineteen acres, on which stands the Castle of Scarborough, the most prominent feature from the sea. This castle dates from the [more...] [$]
Fowey: Entrance to the harbour.
“FOWEY.—This has been described as a miniature Dartmouth, and is a small seaport with a picturesque harbour at the mouth of the Fowey. This little place is 280 miles from London. In the old days it shared with Plymouth and Dartmouth the maritime supremacy of the south of England, and Looe, Truro, and Penryn were merely regarded as creeks belonging to its [...] [more...]
[$]Images and text from Round the Coast, published by George Newness in 1895.
Photographs taken in the UK by a British citizen and published in the UK before 1945 are out of copyright.
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