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- ↑ "Seaton Tramway Terminal". Greenway Associates. Archived from the original on 7 August 2021. Retrieved 7 August 2021.
- ↑ Gold Medal for Architecture Archived 2014-10-30 at the Wayback Machine , National Eisteddfod of Wales. Retrieved 2015-01-07.
