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Ashton maps
Historic maps of Ashton and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Ashton maps
Ashton photos
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Breage| Praa Sands| Porthleven| Rosudgeon| Prussia Cove| Cuddon Point| Perranuthnoe| Helston| St Erth| Marazion| St Michael's Mount| Gunwalloe| Crowlas| Hayle| Phillack| Lelant| Ludgvan| Poldhu| Carbis Bay| Mullion
Ashton area books
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Cornwall memories
School Trip at Whitsun
I remember travelling from Luton in Bedfordshire during the late 1950s and early 1960s to spend a week at Mrs Sampson's Harbour House boarding facilities. My father used to drive the coach overnight from Luton and we would stop in Honiton on the way. If we were early we would also stop in Truro for a short time. The building in question is seen in this photo at the extreme right hand side and later was taken over and transformed into what is now the Harbour Hotel. It was merged with the then Commercial Hotel which was next door. In the late 1960s the hotel was smaller inside than it is now and had murals of sea disasters all around the bar area.
Coastguard Cottages
Built right on the smuggling cove to stop the smugglers, they predate nearby Porthenalls which was only built c1900, bought by the T_B estate in the 1980s(?), now holiday lets.
Porthenalls
Built 1900s, now holiday lets or (big) weddings. The island is Enys (which is Cornish for island!).
Bessys Cove
called Bessy's Cove by the Carters, is there a story about Bessy saving one of their children?
Porthenalls
Porthenalls on left, Lutyens-like house built early 1900s by family, butler/houseman's house on right, all holiday lets now. See Prussia Cove web site
Kennegy Cove
Looking from Prussia Cove (Prussia Cove is the area, not an actual cove) towards Kennegy. Tin mine workings exposed on beach and on cliffs above. Kerrier DC (it's just on the border of Kerrier and Penwith DCs) have replaced the rope we abseiled down with stainless steel steps and ladder, but it's no easier to get down!
Little Cudden Point
beyond is Cudden Point proper, here is the "Oratory" and a plaque with the inscription "WE HAVE A BVILDING OF GOD, AN HOVSE NOT MADE WITH HANDS, ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS
WHERE THE SPIRIT OF THE, LORD IS THERE IS LIBERTY"
In front is Pisky Cove
