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    Holyhead Mail Pier or Admiralty Pier Lighthouse on Salt Island, Anglesey, is an inactive lighthouse which was designed by the civil engineer John Rennie...
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    "designed and constructed". The Holyhead Mail Pier Light is a conical white house which was built by Rennie in 1821. The lighthouse is of national significance...
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  • Holyhead Lighthouse may refer to one of two Holyhead, Wales lighthouses: Holyhead Breakwater Lighthouse Holyhead Mail Pier Light This disambiguation page...
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    At the seaward end of the Admiralty Pier, beyond the arch, is the Grade II listed Holyhead Mail Pier Lighthouse, completed in 1821 it was designed by...
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  • of lighthouses in Wales. The list runs anticlockwise from north-east to south-east Wales. List of lighthouses and lightvessels List of lighthouses in...
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    Admiralty Pier (built 1810-24) by John Rennie and the South Pier (built 1823-31) and graving dock designed by Thomas Telford; his London-Holyhead Road, which...
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    lighthouse keeper's house being added in 1821; initially this was single storey, but an additional storey was added in 1856. The Holyhead Mail Pier Lighthouse...
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    Laoghaire and Holyhead. The nearby settlement of Dún Laoghaire has also previously been known as Kingstown and also as Dun Leary. Carlisle Pier has been known...
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    dovecote Skerries Lighthouse – at the end of a low piece of submerged land, north-east of Holyhead St Cybi's Church – historic church in Holyhead Stone Science...
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    Salt Island, Anglesey (category Holyhead)
    demolished. There have been three lighthouses located on the island. The current lighthouse is the Holyhead Mail Pier Light. It was designed by John Rennie...
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    Cromer On this journey, Portillo follows the route of the Irish mail from Ledbury to Holyhead. This journey follows some of the earliest railways in the country...
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  • Philately Stamps PHQ Cards "Royal Mail unveil classic album cover stamps". The Independent. Retrieved 23 September 2022. "Royal Mail puts classic albums on to...
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    railway have all resulted. In 1968, the old Kish lighthouse foundation was added to the end of the pier. At the end of World War II, cars and petrol became...
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    extend the quays. In 1852, a standard gauge extension of the Chester and Holyhead Railway reached Port Dinorwic, although nearly 90% of the slate continued...
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    as other more efficient rail-connected routes, via Liverpool, and later Holyhead became dominant. Portpatrick's nearest railhead was Ayr, 60 miles (96 km)...
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  • punished with Death, and for otherwise amending the Laws relative to Forgery. Holyhead, Liverpool Roads Act 1830 (repealed) 11 Geo. 4 & 1 Will. 4. c. 67 23 July...
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  • time could be achieved elsewhere. White Star liners had started to use Holyhead, and the Cunard Company arranged to land its passengers at Fishguard, forty...
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  • xlii) North Cornwall Railway Act 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. ccliv) General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 45) Metropolitan Street Improvement...
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    Barry Docks (redirect from Barry Lighthouse)
    ABP. Retrieved 4 September 2014. "Barry Docks West Breakwater Light". Lighthouse Digest Magazine. Foghorn publishing. Retrieved 4 September 2014. "Barry...
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  • flora and fauna living on and around chalk ledges on the seabed. 2 2 "Holyhead to Liverpool" John Trefor n/a 3.45m (2) 2 November 2006 (2006-11-02) On...
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  • Retrieved 16 April 2020 – via Haithi Trust. "Annual report of the Supervising Lighthouse Board, Year ending June 30, 1901". Washington: Government Printing Office...
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  • (A)". Retrieved 28 October 2019. "Columbia Lightship (WLV-604)". us-lighthouses.com. Retrieved 8 November 2019. "Annual report of the Supervising Inspector-general...
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  • Northern Echo. No. 1901. Darlington. 10 February 1876. "The Dublin and Holyhead Route". Freeman's Journal. Dublin. 10 February 1876. "Launch". Glasgow...
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    was portrayed by the artist Edward Pugh in 1813. The construction of the Holyhead Road and other work by Thomas Telford resulted in a number major bridges...
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  • "Shipping Disasters". Manchester Times. No. 1111. Manchester. 29 March 1879. "Holyhead". North Wales Chronicle. No. 2711. Bangor. 22 March 1879. "Mercantile Ship...
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  • Newcastle Courant. No. 9815. Newcastle upon Tyne. 6 February 1863. "The Holyhead Mail". Belfast News-Letter. No. 15493. Belfast. 22 January 1863. Gaines,...
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  • Standard. No. 16568. London. 30 August 1877. p. 7. "Disappearance of a Lighthouse". The Times. No. 29067. London. 8 October 1877. col F, p. 4. "Shipping...
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    sailings due to have been performed by HSC Jonathan Swift on the Dublin – Holyhead route. Passengers were accommodated on MV Ulysses. In Workington, the collapse...
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  • 1886. p. 8. "Inquiry into the Wreck of the Breckonshire". Overland China Mail. No. XLII, 907. Hong Kong. 6 April 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 3 November 2021...
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  • News. No. 9552. London. 2 December 1876. "Shipping Intelligence". Western Mail. No. 2376. Cardiff. 8 December 1876. "Shipping". Liverpool Mercury. No. 9020...
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