244 OLD PORTLAND. 



Portlanders remember playing as boys among its ruinous 

 portions ; but the \vestern part of the house, which alone 

 stood, was incorporated in two or three cottages. 



All the distinctive portions that now remain of the " Girt 

 House "are : An upper window of three lights (one blocked 

 up) and a lower window of three Lights converted into a 

 doorway, facing south ; a small rectangular upper window 

 blocked up, facing w r est, and another (also blocked up) facing 

 south ; a large open kitchen fireplace and chimney, now di- 

 vided by a party wall ; an upper and a lower window of three 

 lights, each partly blocked up (a modern window is inserted 

 in the remainder), and a small rectangular window entirely 

 blocked up, facing north. These portions of the " Girt 

 House " form the back rooms of two cottages numbered 

 20 and 18, Wakeham Street. There is also a faint outline 

 of Jacobean windows of three lights to be seen on the ex- 

 terior walls facing east, of the front of the cottages numbered 

 20, 18. and 16, Wakeham Street. 



IX. The old Light-houses at the Bill. 



The only beacon at the Bill in olden days was a large 

 coal fire. The upper lighthouse in the picture was built 

 in 1716 ; the lower in 1789, replacing an earlier one. Both 

 these lighthouses gave way in 1869 to others more effective, 

 which in turn have yielded to one lighthouse only, near 

 the obelisk erected in 1844 at the point of the Bill. 



X. Easton. 



We here get the back view of Easton Street, showing 

 Reforne Street leading to S. George's Church. Modern 

 shops have nearly entirely replaced the Jacobean and other 

 substantial houses with their quaint square and angular 

 roofed porches. The old Pool in Easton Square, near where 



