[Bacon (George Washington)]

reduced from the Ordnance Survey, showing the Victorian seaside resort and active fishing centre, after the opening of Hastings Pier in 1872, but before the last abortive attempt to build a proper walled harbour, with the subsequent transformation of the shoreline, which began in 1896, and the opening of St Leonards Pier in 1891,

lithographed map with original hand-colouring, 305 x 485 mm. (12 x 19 1/8 in), slight splitting at head and foot of the central vertical fold, a faint horizontal fold, a few marginal tears and surface dirt,