Perch Rock - New Brighton 1829
by Lianne Schneider
Title
Perch Rock - New Brighton 1829
Artist
Lianne Schneider
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Painting/photographic Art
Description
Hand painted digitally from black and white sketch in an old book I purchased - public domain.
From Wikipedia:
New Brighton is a British seaside resort forming part of the town of Wallasey, in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral, in the metropolitan county of Merseyside, England. It is located at the northeastern tip of the Wirral Peninsula, within the historic county boundaries of Cheshire, and has sandy beaches which line the Irish Sea.
Up to the 19th century, the area had a reputation for smuggling and wrecking, and secret underground cellars and tunnels are still rumoured to exist. It also had a strategic position at the entrance to the Mersey Estuary.
The Perch Rock battery was completed in 1829. It mounted 18 guns, mostly 32 pounders, with 3 6-inch guns installed in 1899. Originally cut off at high tide, coastal reclamation has since made it fully accessible.
In 1830, a Liverpool merchant, James Atherton, purchased much of the land at Rock Point, which enjoyed views out to sea and across the Mersey and had a good beach. His aim was to develop it as a desirable residential and watering place for the gentry, in a similar way to Brighton, one of the most elegant seaside resorts of that Regency period - hence "New Brighton". Substantial development began soon afterwards, and housing began to spread up the hillside overlooking the estuary - a former gunpowder magazine being closed down in 1851.
During the latter half of the 19th century, New Brighton developed as a very popular seaside resort serving Liverpool and the Lancashire industrial towns, and many of the large houses were converted to inexpensive hotels. A pier was opened in the 1860s, and the promenade from Seacombe to New Brighton was built in the 1890s. This served both as a recreational amenity in its own right, and to link up the developments along the estuary, and was later extended westwards towards Leasowe.
The river Mersey and the resort were described by the diarist Francis Kilvert in 1872 as: "crowded with vessels of all sorts moving up and down the river, ships, barques, brigs, brigantines, schooners, cutters, colliers, tugs, steamboats, lighters, "flats", everything from the huge emigrant liner steamship with four masts to the tiny sailing and rowing boat. "At New Brighton there are beautiful sands stretching for miles along the coast and the woods were green down to the salt water's edge. The sands were covered with middle class Liverpool folks and children out for a holiday."
The New Brighton Tower, the tallest in the country, was opened in 1900 but closed in 1919, largely due to lack of maintenance during World War I. Dismantling of the tower was complete by 1921.
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Allison Ashton
Always, you do these with so much passion, Lianne, draws me right in, to another time and place. xox
Sherri Of Palm Springs
Dear Lianne, you are such a wonderful artist, this is simply so beautiful everydetail..love it Sherri fvl
Lianne Schneider
My apologies in the delay in thanking the hosts - Usha, Sandra and Catalina - for featuring this image in their lovely groups: DIGITAL PAINTING, MEMORIES AND NOSTALGIA and SEASIDE. I'm incredibly honored. And to each of you below who have left such lovely messages of encouragement, my heartfelt gratitude. I hope that I've been able to repay your gift in kind by a personal visit to your work. If I haven't yet, I certainly will soon!