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Auction: 21145 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the World - e-Auction
Lot: 246

Great Britain: Shoreham/New Shoreham Harbour, a subscription receipt dated Brighton 181[8], small format, black, together with a handwritten transfer certificate dated 1840 for share number 55, signed by all parties, 4 pages, together with a related letter of account. New Shoreham was established in Norman times. The mouth of the river was constantly moving and by 1816 it was decided to build a new harbour and to try to fix the position of the river so that it flowed between two piers. Enlarged at the time of the introduction of railways to the town in 1840. It became the largest port between Dover and Portsmouth along the South Coast. Reconstituted by the Shoreham Harbour Act of 1926. VF (3).

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