1895 Print over 100 years old Tenby In the Harbour

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Old print photograph out of a book, the edition was dated 1895.

The page is over 100 years old and in very good condition.

In order to enhance and protect the page we have set in within a bespoke frame and mount.

Frame size 400mm x 370mm, available also in just a gold frame, your choice.  RTC.113.

Entitled – Tenby.

Below the picture an inscription read:  

Tenby – Enough has been said to suggest Tenby as an excellent place of sojourn, even out of the regular season, which lasts from June to the end of October.

In winter it has a climate of the same character as Torquay, and its inhabitants complain that it is unduly neglected then by many who may not be aware of its advantages.

The trade of the port is not extensive, and most of the vessels frequenting the harbour belong to other places.

The fishermen from the coast of Devonshire come hither in pursuit of their occupation, and take their cargoes to Bristol.

Caldy Island, 2 and a half miles from Tenby Harbour, is frequently visited in boats, and its beach and cliffs receive numerous picnic parties.

It is of irregular form, and has an area of 650 acres.

There is a lighthouse at the southern and most elevated part of the island, also the modern mansion of the proprietor of Caldy.

Prior to the time of Elizabeth, Tenby was a port of considerable importance, but after that period it declined greatly, and was at length almost deserted.

During the present century, however, it has rapidly revived, and has become a fashionable bathing resort, extending far beyond the limits of the ancient town, and now possessing all the characteristics of a flourishing modern watering-place.

Its advantages in this respect are the variety of its aspects, the clearness of the water, which is unpolluted by the discharge of any river, the firmness and extent of its sands, the purity of its air, and its freedom from the smoke of manufactories and from the bustle of more frequeted seaports.

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