Sea, occupies the spot that was the "Old Woman's Tap." This is only one of the many changes that have taken place in this Borough during the last fifty years.
Coming eastward from the site of St. Leonards we came to the White Rock, which consisted of a piece of sand-stone rock jutting out towards the sea. It formed a very picturesque object, seen either from the west, or from the east. The curve in the Parade, eastward of the New Pier, marks the locality.
Powell's Library and the Battery were situated at the eastern end of the Marine Parade. The Library was the resort of the fashionable visitors on a summer's evening, where they listened to a band, and took chances in a lottery, which was carried on every evening in the summer season. The Battery mounted six twenty-four pounders, and it was fine fun for the juveniles of the neighbourhood, of which I was one, to run along the parapet and play leap-frog over the cannon. It was dismantled in 1817, and pulled down in 1842.
The end of West Street was and is to the left of the Library, and a small building on the left-hand side of the street was used as a guard-house. At that time there were temporary barracks at the present Halton, and a sergeant's guard was usually stationed in this building, and a sentry was stationed on the battery, in a sentry-box placed thereon. A cargo of -
