Sentence examples for stone quay from inspiring English sources

And then there's the harbor, with its cement boardwalk and stone quay, and the beaches.

At the water entrance to the piazzetta is the Molo, a broad stone quay that was once the ceremonial landing spot for great officials and distinguished visitors.

In 1902 a British corporation began improvements to the port facilities, including a customs house, a stone quay, storehouses, and floating wharves to allow for the annual rise and fall (up to 40 feet [12 metres]) of the river.

In 1424 the completion of this Venetian Gothic-style palace was undertaken, and the two identical facades facing the Molo (a broad stone quay) and the Piazzetta San Marco were extended.

His wonderful book Island Farm chronicles his own existence on Tanera Mor which he single-handedly cajoled back to life in the 1930s.Williams and his wife had themselves repaired the old stone quay and the dormant fisheries.

A harbour was built to the south-east of the castle, of which only a stone quay survives.

Just days after the catastrophic Great Fire of 1666, Wren produced a plan to rebuild London as an Italian-style city, with wide boulevards that terminated in piazzas and raised stone quays.

To accommodate ship berthing the Navy built a concrete-and-stone quay around the entire island, and in 1926, they received Vought FU, Vought VE-7 and Vought VE-9 biplanes.

Further evidence of Norse maritime activity in Scotland was found at Loch na h-Airde on the Isle of Skye's Rubh an Dunain peninsula, where Colin Martin of the Morvern Maritime Centre and his survey team identified a stone-built quay, a canal, and boat timbers associated with a 12th-century-ce Viking shipbuilding site.

On 18 January 1970, President Yusof bin Ishak laid the memorial's foundation stone along Collyer Quay Street, on what was supposed to be a temporary site.

The portholes on the starboard side faced the stones of the quay.