Mount Pleasant Steps
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Mount Pleasant Steps by David Rogers as part of the Geograph project.
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Mount Pleasant Steps
Image: © David Rogers Taken: 22 Apr 2008
These steps from the top of Mount Pleasant down to the quayside used to provide access to what was described in the 19th century as "a congregation of most wretched dwellings situated on the side of a hill". At that time there were at least 1800 inhabitants living here in squalid conditions.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.547616
Longitude
-3.595381