A print from a disbound book of England & Wales published 1900. Blank on the reverse, this has been trimmed from the original page size to fit boarded envelope, scan shows the trimmed page being sold.
Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 10.75" x 8.25" or 27.5cm x 21cm, including text and border.
Average image size approx 8.75" x 6.25" or 22.5cm x 16cm
This is an antique print not a modern copy or reproduction and can show signs of age or previous use commensurate with the age of the print, please view the scans as they form part of the description.
1900 is the printing date, the original date of creation can be earlier.
All prints will be sent bagged and in a boarded envelope for maximum protection.
While every care is taken to ensure my scans or photos accurately represent the item offered for sale, due to differences in monitors and internet pages my pictures may not be an exact match in brightness or contrast to the actual item.
Text description beneath the picture (subject to any spelling errors due to the OCR program used)
PORT MADOC.
This is a rising little port on one of the coves in Tremadoc Bay, chiefly used for the exportation of slates, brought down by the Festiniog railway. There is a station of that railway here, and another of the Cambrian line not far off. Looking north there is a fine view of Snowdon, while southward can be seen Harlech Castle. The neighbourhood is interesting from an engineering point of view, as the site of vast reclamations from the sea, due chiefly to the late Mr. W. A. Madocks, M.P By him an embankment was erected to keep out the sea from the great plain of Traeth Mawr, and 7,000 acres were thus reclaimed, the top of the embankment also affording a good road to Tan-y-Bwlch. The road from Tremadoc to Portmadoc now crosses land over which boats floated in 1812.