



Produced by Chris Curnow, Susan Skinner and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This
file was produced from images generously made available
by The Internet Archive)






FINDEN'S VIEWS

_OF THE_

PORTS, HARBOURS & WATERING PLACES

_OF_

GREAT BRITAIN,

Continued by

W. H. BARTLETT.

       *       *       *       *       *

[Illustration: TYNEMOUTH PRIORY AND LIGHT-HOUSE.

_THE LIFE-BOAT_]


       *       *       *       *       *


THE

PORTS, HARBOURS, WATERING-PLACES,

And Picturesque Scenery

OF

GREAT BRITAIN.

ILLUSTRATED BY VIEWS TAKEN ON THE SPOT,

BY

W. H. BARTLETT, J. D. HARDING, T. CRESWICK,

AND OTHERS.

       *       *       *       *       *

WITH DESCRIPTIONS, HISTORICAL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL.

       *       *       *       *       *

VOL. I.

VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, CITY ROAD AND IVY LANE, LONDON.




LIST OF PLATES.

    The arrangement adopted in this List is that of starting from
    the metropolis, and following the line of the Eastern coast of
    Great Britain as far northward as Banff, and then returning
    westward to the River Thames. But as the description of each
    plate is complete in a single leaf, and there is not any series
    of folios, the order can be varied at the taste of the
    purchaser, if directions to that effect be given to the binder.


VOLUME I.


FRONTISPIECE--LONDON, SOUTHWARK, AND BLACKFRIARS BRIDGES.

VIGNETTE--TYNEMOUTH PRIORY AND LIGHTHOUSE, WITH LIFE-BOAT.

HARWICH.

YARMOUTH, NORFOLK.

--------- WITH THE QUAY AND SHIPPING.

--------- WITH NELSON'S PILLAR.

CROMER, NORFOLK.

HULL--KINGSTON-ON-HULL.

BURLINGTON QUAY.

FLAMBOROUGH-HEAD, WITH THE LIGHTHOUSE.

SCARBOROUGH, WITH THE HARBOUR, CASTLE, &c.

WHITBY, WITH MONASTIC RUINS.

------- FROM THE NORTH-WEST.

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY, YORKSHIRE.

HARTLEPOOL.

SUNDERLAND, WITH THE LIGHTHOUSE, SOUTH PIER.

----------- THE BRIDGE FROM THE WEST.

SHIELDS, ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOUR.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, TOWN AND HARBOUR.

BLYTH, NEAR THE HARBOUR.

TYNEMOUTH CASTLE, WITH VESSEL ON THE ROCKS.

CULLERCOATS.

DUNSTANBOROUGH CASTLE, FROM THE EAST.

---------------------- BY MOONLIGHT.

BAMBOROUGH CASTLE, FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.

------------------ FROM THE NORTH-WEST.

CASTLE OF HOLY ISLAND AND ABBEY OF LINDISFARN.

--------------------- FROM THE WESTWARD.

BERWICK FROM THE SOUTH-EAST.

LEITH, WITH THE DOCKS, AND EDINBURGH IN THE DISTANCE.

NEWHAVEN, WITH THE PIERS, EDINBURGH.

DUNDEE, ENTRANCE TO THE PORT.

------- FROM THE FIFE SIDE OF THE TAY.

ABBEY OF ARBROATH.

MONTROSE, WITH THE HARBOUR AND CHAIN-BRIDGE.

DUNNOTTAR CASTLE, NEAR STONEHAVEN.

STONEHAVEN, WITH THE TOWN AND HARBOUR.

ABERDEEN, ENTRANCE TO THE HARBOUR.

--------- FROM ABOVE THE CHAIN-BRIDGE.

--------- THE LIGHTHOUSE.

SLAINES CASTLE, SEAT OF THE EARL OF ERROLL.

BULLERS OF BUCHAN.

PETERHEAD, TOWN, HARBOUR, AND LIGHTHOUSE.

MACDUFF, TOWN AND HARBOUR.

BANFF.

PORT-GLASGOW, WITH THE PIER AND DOCKS.

GREENOCK, WITH THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.

BROOMIELAW, WITH THE NEW BRIDGE, GLASGOW.

THE SOLWAY, VIEW ACROSS THE FRITH.

ALLONBY, WATERING-PLACE, WITH FISHING-BOATS.

MARYPORT, TOWN AND HARBOUR, ENGLISH COAST.

MARYPORT-PIER, IN A STORM.

WORKINGTON, CUMBERLAND.

WHITEHAVEN, CUMBERLAND.

----------- THE HARBOUR.

ST. BEES' COLLEGE, WITH THE VILLAGE.

ST. BEES' HEAD AND LIGHTHOUSE.

FLEETWOOD-ON-WYRE.

BLACKPOOL, WATERING-PLACE.

BLACKPOOL SANDS.

LYTHAM, LANCASHIRE.

SOUTHPORT SANDS, LANCASHIRE.




THE

PORTS AND HARBOURS

OF

GREAT BRITAIN.




TYNEMOUTH LIGHTHOUSE AND PRIORY.


Our present engraving is a view of Tynemouth Lighthouse and Priory, with
the life-boat in the act of saving the crew of a vessel, which has
struck upon the rocks at the foot of the cliff on which the lighthouse
is built. This incident, so effectively and appropriately introduced by
the artist, Balmer, who has frequently witnessed the scene which he has
depicted, is peculiarly characteristic of the neighbourhood of
Tynemouth; for, in consequence of the danger of the entrance to Shields
Harbour in stormy weather, with the wind from the eastward, more vessels
are there lost than at the entrance of any other harbour in Great
Britain; and in no part of the kingdom has the value of the life-boat
been more frequently experienced.

The view is taken from the entrance to Shields Harbour, about half a
mile to the south-west of the lighthouse, which is seen rising from
behind the extremity of the cliff which overlooks the entrance to
Prior's Haven. Towards the centre of the land view are the ruins of
Tynemouth Priory; while farther to the left, in the same distance, is
seen the castle, now modernised and occupied as a garrison. The
fore-ground to the left is the bank which forms the south-western
boundary of Prior's Haven; and the rocks which are seen at its foot are
a portion of the formidable _Black Middens_, which lie on the north side
of the entrance to the harbour.

The principal feature of the engraving under observation is the view of
the life-boat, which is introduced with a thorough knowledge of the
subject, and with a feeling and a character of truth which mere
imagination can never inspire. The downward plunge of a boat's bows
among broken water, while her stern is at the same time elevated by a
slanting wave, was never more happily represented. A person who has been
at sea, may almost fancy that he hears the resounding dash of the water
against the curved bow, and the seething of the angry wave as it rises
on each side. The idea of motion is admirably conveyed in the
representation of the wave lashing over the floating mast, which is
tossed about like a light spar by the violence of the sea; and the
continued inward roll of the water, from the side and bow of the boat
towards the shore, is no less naturally expressed.

Part of the life-boat's crew, with most of the oars double-manned, are
seen "giving way," with strenuous efforts, through the breakers, while
others are endeavouring to save the shipwrecked seamen; and one of the
men at the steer-oar appears to be encouraging the sailor who clings to
the floating mast. The position of the boat, with her stem towards the
harbour, and the shipwrecked men seated towards her stern, indicate that
she is returning from the vessel, the top of whose masts are seen, and
that she is now endeavouring to save such men as were washed overboard
when the vessel sunk. The flying of the spray declares the loudness of
the wind; and though a cheering glimpse of sunshine appears to illumine
the land, yet the dark cloud, which seems to rest upon the waters to the
right, sufficiently informs us of the gloominess of the prospect when
looking towards the sea.

In consequence of a bar of sand, which stretches across the mouth of the
Tyne, where the outward current of the river at ebb tide is met by the
inward roll of the sea; and from the Herd Sand on the south, and the
Black Middens on the north, the entrance to Shields Harbour