The Visitor's Hand-Book for Holyhead (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Comprising a History of the Town, the Antiquities and Sublime Scenery of the MountainBy Thomas Jackson
Length3h 30m
About this audiobook
Thomas Jackson's The Visitor's Hand-Book for Holyhead is a compact yet richly informative guide to one of Victorian Britain's significant maritime gateways. Combining practical directions with local history, antiquarian observation, and descriptions of scenery, the book situates Holyhead within the culture of nineteenth-century travel writing, when handbooks mediated between curiosity, leisure, and improvement. Its style is clear, purposeful, and observant, attentive both to the town's port functions and to its surrounding landmarks, sacred associations, coastal prospects, and historical remains. Jackson appears as a writer shaped by the era's expanding mobility and by the demands of an increasingly literate travelling public. Holyhead's importance as a packet and railway-connected port, especially for journeys between Britain and Ireland, made it a natural subject for such a handbook. His interest in local topography and historical memory suggests an author concerned not merely with guiding movement, but with teaching visitors how to read place: its monuments, legends, institutions, and landscape. This book is recommended to readers interested in Welsh local history, Victorian tourism, maritime culture, and the evolution of the travel guide. It offers more than itinerary; it preserves a period vision of Holyhead as both practical destination and storied threshold.
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Audiobook details
GenreTravel
Length3 hrs 30 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 30, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Visitor's Hand-Book for Holyhead (Annotated)
2PREFACE.
3HOLYHEAD.
4THE CHURCH
5THE CHURCH WALLS
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6POPULATION OF HOLYHEAD.
7DISTANCES OF PLACES.
8POST OFFICE.
9DELIVERY OF LETTERS.
10DESPATCH OF LETTERS.
11AGENTS.
12BANKS.
13ANCIENT CUSTOMS.—EGG TAKING, FROM THE CLIFFS OF HOLYHEAD.
14SHALL I GET MARRIED THIS MONTH?
15DANCING MATCH.
16HOLYHEAD PIER—OLD HARBOUR.
17GRAND TRIUMPHAL ARCH.
18HOLYHEAD LIGHT-HOUSE.
19MONUMENT TO CAPTAIN SKINNER.
20THE CAPTAIN’S GRAVE.
21SKERRIES LIGHT-HOUSE.
22SOUTH STACK—BY LAND.
23THE LIGHT-HOUSE
24SOUTH STACK—BY WATER.
25MY NATIVE BAY.
26SOUTH STACK SEA-BIRDS.
27SEA GULLS.
28THE GUILLEMOT.
29REFLECTIONS ON THE THREE LIGHT-HOUSES.
30A STROLL TO THE MOUNTAIN TELEGRAPH.
31THE TOURIST’S PIC NIC.
32THE SIGNAL OR SEMAPHORIC TELEGRAPH.
33THE EXTENSIVE PROSPECT FROM THE MOUNTAIN TELEGRAPH.
34A RAMBLE TO THE MOUNTAIN HEAD.
35ANTIQUITIES.
36REFLECTIONS.
37NEW HARBOUR.
38CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.
39RAILWAY STATION.
40DEPARTURE OF TRAINS.
41STEAM PACKETS.
42STEAM-PACKETS TO AND FROM IRELAND.
43HOTELS.
44TRIPS BY SEA.
45PENRHOS PARK.
46LADY STANLEY’S HOSPITALITY TO SHIPWRECKED SAILORS.
47ST. BRIDE’S, OR TOWYN CHAPEL; AND THE ANCIENT TUMULUS.
48CROMLECHS, OR DRUIDICAL ALTARS.
49TREFIGNETH CROMLECHI.
50ANCIENT STONES OF MEMORIAL.
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