Crane wharf at centre, canal basin with flats(barges) below right, Cheese Stage at far right:
The artist J M W (William) Turner visited the Dee Estuary several times in the 1790s to sketch.
Fflint from the hill behind Parkgate with vessel in anchorage
(engraving after J M W Turner 1797).
Fflint Castle (J M W Turner 1830s, paintings based on later visits and earlier
sketches; engraving circa 1795). Also image circa 1812.
Photographs
Steam (SS Aranci) and towed Sailing ship passing original Queensferry bridge (telescopic
opening action, 1897-1925) upriver from Connah's Quay.
Ferry boat at Queensferry (free chain ferry: circa 1897 when first road bridge was opened)
Mersey Flat under construction and then afloat (Ruth Bate; last one built at Abel's yard in
Runcorn, 1953):
Parkgate circa 1900
Vessels alongside Saltney (GWR) Wharf. [from Peoples Collection Wales]
Flat at Fflint Dock 1912
Flats at Bagillt
Ships (SS Temple and flat Mary, early 1900s) in Mostyn Dock
Ships in Mostyn Dock (early 1900s)
Shipping in the Gutter to Point of Ayr Colliery (Ffynnongroyw)
