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1 West India Quay

In the film Run Fatboy Run, the character Whit owns an apartment in 1 West India Quay.

Albert Bridge, Manchester

A smaller arch on the Manchester bank of the river crossed a towpath, giving access to the Duke of Bridgewater's quay.

Arklow Pottery

Arklow Pottery was a pottery founded in 1934 and formally opened by Seán Lemass (Minister for Industry and Commerce) 29 July 1935 in South Quay, Arklow, County Wicklow, Ireland.

Bergen Steamship Company

From 1928 the service terminated at the purpose-built Tyne Commission Quay, North Shields, only two miles from the Tyne piers and now part of the Royal Quays complex.

Betws-y-Coed

The Conwy Valley Line was constructed by the London and North Western Railway with the primary aim of transporting dressed slate from the Blaenau Ffestiniog quarries to a specially built quay at Deganwy for export by sea.

Centenary Quay

Centenary Quay (also known as Woolston Riverside), is a new development which has commenced in the suburb of Woolston in Southampton.

Clarke Quay

The Satay Club and a number of establishments vacated Clarke Quay to make way for new tenants.

Dart Lifeboat Station

During the summer the lifeboat was kept in a boat house at Sand Quay, but during the winter it was kept afloat in Warfleet Creek where it was quicker to respond to any ships in distress.

De Quay cabinet

De Quay (19 May 1959 - 24 July 1963) was the name given to a Dutch cabinet led by Jan de Quay with ministers from KVP, VVD, ARP and CHU.

East Cornwall Mineral Railway

The trade was limited by the difficulties of conveying the products to market; this was done by pack horse to Calstock, where there was a quay on the tidal River Tamar for onward coast-wise shipping transport.

Ed Carfrey

Carfrey's minor league and semi-pro assignments include the Houston team (1882-1883, 1888), the Haymaker club (1884), the Athletic Cub of Schuylkill Navy (1891-1892), Philadelphia Colts (1894), Hazleton Quay-kers (1895), Salem (1895), Ansonia (1896), York (1896), Media (1897), and Mount Holly (1899).

Eden Quay

Activity on the quay is made up of a lap dancing club and bar, along with a hotel and bar, an amusement arcade, the Laughter Lounge (built on the site of a former cinema, and an assortment of downscale offices, a language school, a closed down pub and three newsagents.

Exeter St Thomas railway station

In 1851 George Hennet was given permission to build a coal depot at St Thomas from where he could distribute coal, brought by train from his quay at Teignmouth.

Fremington, Devon

The quay now has been redeveloped with a restaurant and facilities to enjoy wide views over the Taw estuary.

Geographically, the centre of the village is approximately a mile (2 km) south of its quay, a historic wharf situated on the southern bank of the River Taw with plenty of residential property on all sides of its roads between Bideford and Barnstaple.

Gourock railway station

The Caledonian Railway found that their service to Greenock Central station, which was an inconvenient walk away from the quay, was losing Clyde steamer trade to the new Glasgow and South Western Railway terminal at Prince's Pier in Greenock.

Hamburg Rathaus

The Binnenalster with the Jungfernstieg station and quay for the Alster ships is directly north of the Rathaus.

Harrington, Cumbria

In 1760, Henry Curwen built a quay at Harrington on the south side of the River Wyre.

Helford River

A little further up river is Tremayne Quay, built for a visit by Queen Victoria in the 1840s which she then declined to make-—allegedly because it was raining.

Hélie de Noailles

The 1981 general election returned him to the Quay d'Orsay, where de Noailles became the second adviser of the French Embassy to the United States (1982–1986).

Henri Storck

He was an actor in two key films of the history of the cinema: Jean Vigo's Zéro de conduite (1933) in the role of the priest, and Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quay Commercial, 1080 Brussels (1976) in the role of a customer of the prostitute.

Innherredsferja

At Levanger, both ferries corresponded with north- and southbound trains on the Nordland Line at Levanger Station, which is within walking distance of the quay.

Ipswich railway station

The Eastern Union Railway (EUR) opened its first terminus in Ipswich in 1846 on Station Road at the other end of the present-day tunnel close to the old quay for the Steamboats and the aptly named 'Steamboat Tavern'.

Leonard Kilbee Shaw

On 4 January 1871 he and Richard Bramwell Taylor started the Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes in a small house on Quay Street, Deansgate.

Lisbon Naval Base

Among others, in the early 20th century, there was the Lisbon Navy Arsenal, the Doca de Belém submarine base, the Bom Sucesso seaplane base, the Vila Franca de Xira destroyer base, the Vale do Zebro torpedo boat base, the Alcântara Naval Barracks and the Doca da Marinha naval quay.

Looe

In 1856 the large quay of East Looe was built to handle the demands of the shipping trade, and in 1860, with the canal unable to keep up with demand, a railway was built linking Looe to Moorswater near Liskeard, along the towpath of the canal, which was used less and less until, by 1910, traffic ceased entirely.

MS Wisteria

The Vronskiy was built in 1978 as the Prinses Beatrix by Verolme Shipyard, in Heusden, The Netherlands and worked for Stoomvaart Maatschappij Zeeland on their joint Sealink route between Hoek van Holland and Harwich, Parkeston Quay.

Mudeford

The Beach huts, located on Mudeford Spit, can be reached on foot or land train from the Hengistbury Head side of the harbour, or by the Ferry from Mudeford Quay.

North Quay

North Quay ferry wharf, a ferry terminal serving the Brisbane North Quay

North Quay, Brisbane

Although North Quay is most likely not the exact location selected by John Oxley and Sir Thomas Brisbane during scouting expeditions in November 1824, the high banks at North Quay proved to be highly suitable, well above the flood levels that plagued Brisbane in subsequent years.

Park Republika Srpska

In the north it extends into the Gazela residential local community, in the west into the neighborhood of Savski Nasip, and in the east, along the quay, into the neighborhood of Staro Sajmište.

Polloc and Govan Railway

The Polloc and Govan railway was authorised on 29 May 1830 and it linked Govan with the River Clyde, at Windmillcroft Quay at the Broomielaw, the Glasgow, Paisley and Johnstone Canal and Rutherglen.

Port of Beirut

Quay 16 is equipped with 6 Super-post-Panamax container cranes and 18 rubber tyred gantry cranes manufactured by Shanghai Zhenhua Heavy Industry Company (ZPMC).

Port of Newhaven

Due to expanding cross-channel services and shortage of quay capacity at Newhaven, in 1863 the LB&SCR transferred the Jersey service to Littlehampton, and soon afterwards established the Littlehampton-Honfleur service.

Puttgarden station

In 1961, a large ferry terminal was built in Puttgarden and in 1963 it was put into operation together with the Fehmarn Sound Bridge, because the traditional ferry from Germany to Denmark between Rostock-Warnemünde and Gedser was at the time beyond the Iron Curtain, and the replacement route from Großenbrode Quay to Gedser was too complicated.

Queen Elizabeth II Quay

2.) the Quay is a very small feature of the river estuary on which it was built— it is this estuary which has carved out what is the largest natural harbor on the African continent but still puts this harbor behind Port Jackson in Sydney, Australia, and several natural harbors claiming the title for world's second largest, including Halifax Harbour in Nova Scotia, Poole Harbour in Dorset, southern England, and Cork Harbour in County Cork, Ireland.

Railway Enthusiasts Society

In 1981 and 1986, the Society operated steam hauled trains with Glenbrook Vintage Railway's Mallet locomotive and WW 480 along Quay Street in Auckland as part of tourism promotions.

Robin Simon

He collaborated with his Magazine ex bandmate Dave Formula in the song "The Saddest Quay" for his solo album Satellite Sweetheart, which was released in 2009.

Schifffahrtsgesellschaft des Vierwaldstättersees

The landing stages at Lucerne and Flüelen provide 'cross-quay' interchange with the main line railways at Lucerne station and Flüelen station respectively.

Staro Sajmište

It extends into the non-residential neighborhood of Ušće on the north, along the Sava quay into the new Park Republika Srpska on the east and into the newly developed Savograd on the west.

The Continental

Hook Continental, a passenger train running between London's Liverpool Street Station and Harwich Parkestone Quay

Trewent Point

Stackpole Quay - Trewent Point is a cliff on the Castlemartin Peninsula of South Pembrokeshire South Wales and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (or SSSI).

Universitetskaya Embankment

A quay in front of the Academy of Arts building, adorned with two authentic sphinxes of Pharaoh Amenhotep III brought in 1832 from Thebes, Egypt, was designed by Konstantin Thon and built in 1832-1834.

Walluf

A foot passenger and bicycle ferry operates across the Rhine between Walluf and the Budenheim quay.

Wynndel Property Management

The Severn Quay development includes the transformation of the town's neglected riverbank by creating landscaped gardens, a promenade and lookout deck over the River Wye.


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