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Tramore Lifeboat Station is located on The Cove, near The Pier at Newtown, a suburb of Tramore, a seaside town in County Waterford, approximately 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south of Waterford, on the south coast of Ireland. A lifeboat station was first established at Tramore in 1858 by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI). [1]
Racing dates have declined to 90 per year, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. In 2007, track management announced a plan to build a 20,000-seat amphitheater at the track and expand live racing (including the reinstatement of harness racing), pending approval by state lawmakers to allow slot machines to be installed, similar to racinos in ...
Tramore (/ t r ə ˈ m ɔː r /; Irish: Trá Mhór, meaning 'big beach') [2] is a seaside town in County Waterford, on the southeast coast of Ireland. It has a population of 11,277 as per the 2022 census , the second largest town in the county.
This Journal Star file photo from August 1983 shows the Skewer Inn in happier times. The caption reads "MDA poster child Sammy Miller of Bloomington enlisted the $100 support of Skewer Inn co ...
Founded by Michigan print dealer John Wilson, Chicago International Art Exposition premiered in May at Navy Pier. The show attracted 80 dealers and 10,000 visitors. It was the first such modern fair in North America. [2] For years it was held in the long barnlike sheds on Chicago's Navy Pier. In 1989, the leaky old sparrow-infested sheds on the ...
Dining room of the Ship Cafe c. 1911. The original structure, located across from the pier ballroom, [16] burned in the 1920 Abbot Kinney Pier fire, and was rebuilt the following year as a larger copy on the same plan, [9] at an estimated cost of $40,000. [17] The new Ship Cafe opened June 28, 1921.
Southend Pier is a major landmark in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, United Kingdom. Extending 1.33 miles (2.14 km) into the Thames Estuary, it is the longest pleasure pier in the world. [2] The bill to build the new pier, to replace a previous timber jetty, received royal assent as the Southend Pier Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c.
The pavilion offered a venue for dances and concerts. Cleethorpes Borough Council assumed ownership of the pier in 1936, [2] the year that the resort gained borough status. The pier as pictured in July 1983. A £50,000 (equivalent to £1,095,293 in 2023) investment in 1968 modernised the 600-seat concert hall, cafe and bar.