Museum Represents a museum WC No EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Wick HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess No Activities <p>Yes</p> OpeningTime1 Evening event 18.30 ArchitectName Thomas Telford IsNewThisYear No ID Google Panorama ID 10485 Refreshments No Street The street address Bank Row AddressLine2 Lower Pulteneytown Postcode KW1 5EY Parking No DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource The Black Stairs Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived highlandcaithness Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2699 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,55.86362,-4.261207; Description An account of the resource <p>In 1803 the British Fisheries Society bought 390 acres on the south side of the the mouth of Wick River. Here Thomas Telford created a new model town, the harbour, and the world's first industrial estate. It is named after Telford's great patron, Sir William Johnstone Pulteney, then Governor of the British Fisheries Society. The Black Steps connected the lower and upper parts of the town and were painted by L S Lowry in 1937.</p> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource Early 19C