Rhos-on-Sea Pier, 396m long, was built in the late 1860s at Douglas on the Isle of Man. It was carefully dismantled and imported to North Wales in 1895, and erected at Rhos Point as an attraction for the growing holiday resort of Rhos-on sea. In 1896 William Horton, a local magistrate, took ownership of the pier and set up the Colwyn Bay and Liverpool Steamship Company, and acquired three vessles. One of these vessles, the PS Rhosneigr, was wrecked near the pier in July 1908. A landing stage for paddle steamers was completed in 1897 but was later destroyed in a storm in 1917. The pier was demolished in 1954 and only the pier Toll Room, now a small museum, remains.

B.A.Malaws, RCAHMW, 30 July 2008.

Updated by Meilyr Powel, RCAHMW. May 2021.