Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 173,091 pages of information and 249,766 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Torquay Pier

From Graces Guide

also known as the Princess Pier, Torquay

1890 Opened as a simple mass concrete groyne. Cochrane and Son of London, are the contractors

1894 A steel lattice girder and timber structure was added

1906 A landing quay on the seaward side of the pier-head was added

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