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| Spittal | Spittal | Whellan’s Directory | on Sheets | This village, is situated about | ||
| Spittal | Mr George Dick | 4.9 & | three quarters of a miles south | |||
| Spittal | Alexr Lowrey Esqr | 4.13 | east of Berwick, and close | |||
| to the seashore, it forms | ||||||
| an irregular cluster of | ||||||
| houses, of all sizes, and | ||||||
| shapes, the better sort having | ||||||
| sprung lately into existence in | ||||||
| consequence of its rising importance | ||||||
| as a bathing place, the inhabit | ||||||
| -tants are nearly all either fisher | ||||||
| -men, or pitmen – there are in it | ||||||
| 8 or 9 Fish Curing establishments | ||||||
| 11 Public Houses, Post Office | ||||||
| Subscription School, United | ||||||
| Presbyterian Chapel, Chemical | ||||||
| Works, and two Iron works, | ||||||
| there is also a Coast Guards | ||||||
| Station here , – and a Life | ||||||
| Boat, with full apparatus | ||||||
| &c always kept in readiness and | ||||||
| its services are often called into requisition X | ||||||
| xThere are no names for any of the streets | ||||||
| in this Village – they are known | ||||||
| merely as front street, Back Street &c | ||||||
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