Abbey Crescent, Torquay (1861)

Rock & Company
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Devon West Country Studies S SC3069
Devon TOR I/S
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SC3069
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CD 47 DVD 7
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Date
1861
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Torquay and its neighbourhood. London, Edinburgh, and New York: T. Nelson and sons, 1868. p. 13.[…] Torquay is governed by a Local Board of twelve members, three of whom retire annually. It is well drained; well supplied with water, brought from Tottiford, on Dartmoor; has the usual Banking facilities; boasts of Cricket Clubs, Archery Societies, Volunteer Companies, Bazaars, Reading Rooms, (Cockrem's, Croyden's, Hearder's), and a Mechanics' Institute; contains six English churches, one Roman Catholic, one Scotch Presbyterian, and numerous Denominational chapels, with several excellent Hospitals, Infirmaries, and charitable Institutions; and is provided with every facility for the comfort of the visitor in search of health, or the idler in quest of amusement. [Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]
Format
Steel l.engr vign
Dimensions
61x91mm
Note
Rock & Co. ; no. 4413. 1 Nov 1861
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Dates
1861