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Proudly displaying the date 1840 over the door the Caernarfon harbour offices look straight towards Caernarfon Castle. St Helen’s Road is to the left in the photograph.
Caernarfon harbour offices
A large car parking area now separates the offices from the quayside. In the heyday this area was no doubt a hustling and bustling area for traders, merchants and sailors.
The building can be found on St Helen’s Road.
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St Mary’s Church, Whitby overlooks the fishing town and is used as a navigational aid for sailors due to it’s location and prominence.
St Mary’s Church, Whitby
It was here, at the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, that the Saxon Christians decided to adopt the customs of the Roman Catholic church instead of the Celtic Church.
Whitby is also connected to William Scoresby (a whaler featured in Moby Dick), Bram Stoker (who set much of Dracula in Whitby) and Captain James Cook
199 steps lead up to the parish church of St. Mary
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