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A black & white print, from a disbound book Pictorial England and Wales c1896 with another print on the reverse.

Suitable for framing, the average page size is approx 11.5" x 9" or 29.5cm x 23cm, including text and border.

Actual picture size approx 8.875" x 6.375" or 22.5cm x 16.7cm

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.

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)

CONWAY CASTLE AND BRIDGES.
The picture of Conway Castle, with its diadem of many towers, crowning the rocky headland on the other side of the estuary, and the old walls of the little town on the hillside, musthave been grand before Stephenson's ugly tubular bridge came to mar the landscape. Telford's Suspension Bridge was not an eyesore, being dependent from towers carefully designed in unison with the castle architecture. The castle itself was one of those erected by Edward I. about 1284. Its best features are the great hall; 130 feet long and 32 feet wide, and the eight towers. The town walls were built at the same time as the castle, and have twenty-one towers; the walls are still complete, but there is no walk round them as at Chester. There is in the town a very fine old Elizabethan house of 1585, called Plâs Mawr.