The comparativist

Before, we wrote about the account as written in Marina: Southport in 1831 , a reprint of Peter Whittle's Marina. Now we have this account from A descriptive history of the popular watering place of Southport in the Parish of North Meols, on the western coast of Lancashire by Frank Robinson. The Founder of the Town T o the late Mr. D. W. Sutton, of Churchtown, a village about a mile and a half distant, who during his life time was familiarly termed ‘The Duke’, the public is indebted for the foundation of the first or original house, about the year 1792. There is at the present time a gentleman resident in the town, almost a centenarian, who was present when the first barrel of ale was tapped at this house, and partook thereof. For some years previous to that time this coast had been resorted to for sea bathing, but those visitors of a bygone day made Churchtown their place of abode, from whence they were conveyed in carts and other conveyances to the convenient s...