96 KINGSBRIDGE 



built near that part where three streets branch off in 

 different directions, viz., Duke Street, Bridge Street, and 

 Ebrington Street. 



In Duke Street is situated Lidstone's iron foundry, which 

 it seems, is in Kingsbridge; but as the stream which 

 divides the parishes is underneath Duke Street, it is not 

 easy to discover to which some of the houses belong. Mr. 

 Lidstone's foundry stands on the site occupied by the same 

 business in possession of the same family for more than 

 a century. The blacksmith's department was first founded, 

 but has been gradually increased and added to, and at 

 present iron-founding, smithery, and practical engineering 

 are all carried on, with the assistance of the varied 

 appliances of modern machinery, turning lathes, iron- 

 planing machines, boring and punching machines, all of 

 which are worked by steam. 



All kinds of edge tools, agricultural machines, and imple- 

 ments, as well as steam engines, are manufactured on the 

 premises. Salcombe being the nearest port to the Channel 

 Islands, a large trade (principally in edge tools) is carried 

 on with them, in connection with the fisheries of Newfound- 

 land and Labrador, and there is also a considerable amount 

 of business with the whole of the South Hams. . 



Here we find ourselves on Dodbrooke Quay. In November 



fbZif of the year 1825, there was so high a tide that several men 



went in a boat from the quay to the " King of Prussia " 



Inn (which is situated just at the junction of the three 



streets), and through Duke Street and Mill Street. 



And again, in 1869, there was a very similar inundation. 

 The quays were covered, and in a very short time, Bridge 

 Street, and a considerable part of Duke Street, Mill Street, 

 and a part of Union Road, were completely flooded; large 



