Prince’s Pier
Former Warehouse situated on the wharf now known as Prince’s Pier and former pier master’s house is a visible and a significant component of the historic Menai Bridge waterfront.
The wharf was built in around 1838 and the warehouse was added a little later, possibly the 1840s but perhaps, more probably, in the 1850s.
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The wharf was built to facilitate the commercial expansion of Richard Davies and Sons who were importing goods and materials, including timber, to their Packet Street warehouses, adjacent to the wharf.
During the 1840s Messrs Davies bought and managed several North America ships, carrying emigrants to North America and the Southern States, exporting slates to New Orleans, Boston and other destinations and regularly returning to the Menai Bridge wharf with cargoes of timber from Quebec, Nova Scotia and new Brunswick.
During the busiest years, 1846 to 1848, Davies ships made fifty voyages, thirty-three of which used the Menai Bridge wharf. The last big Davies ship to use the wharf was the Lord Stanley, which sailed out of Menai Bridge, bound for Montevideo, on 9th September 1868.
