3-053-736 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Prince of Wales on the breakwater at Holyhead, opening the new harbour of refuge, [north Wales], 1873. The future King Edward VII performed the official ceremony of opening the new harbour. He was '...was accompanied by his brother the Duke of Edinburgh, and by the Prince of Leiningen, commander of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, which had conveyed them to Holyhead. The number of spectators was small. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, President of the Board of Trade, with Mr. W. O. Stanley, M.P., High Sheriff of Anglesey, and Admiral Schomberg, the harbour master, bore the principal parts in meeting their Royal Highnesses and assisting the Prince of Wales to go through the programme. Mr. Hawkshaw, chief engineer of the works, attended to explain their construction. Addresses of welcome were of course presented by the local authorities to the Prince of Wales as soon as he and his companions landed. They entered a train of cars upon the line of railway along the lower terrace which runs the entire length of the breakwater, to the pierhead, where the Princes were conducted to the canopied platform or dais erected below the lighthouse'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.