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A few miles from the great city of Newcastle-upon-Tyne stands the town of Tynemouth: which, over a hundred years ago, was little more than a small seashore village, inhabited by fishermen, river-pilots, and other rough hard-labouring men and women who get their bread by the sea.
In an open space near the sea-shore of Tynemouth stood (and perchance stands) a small two-storied building of red brick, in front of which was a flagstaff flying the Union Jack. Every piece of timber used in the erection of this building was made of drift-wood cast up by the sea; the pathway leading to the door was laid with sand and shells; at the door itself was a wooden seat, made out of the sternpost of a wrecked vessel; and along the window-sills were coloured pieces of stone and large shells, all gathered on the neighbouring shore.