Crantock, The Village 1912
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Two shy little girls have been persuaded to pose beneath a sign advertising Crowle's tea gardens and tea rooms. There is a large parish notice board on the wall behind the lych gate that gives entrance to the churchyard. This is at the end of the village, where a track leads down to a passenger ferry across the Gannel to the Pentire district of Newquay.

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A Selection of Memories from Crantock

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My parents moved from Pentire to Crantock when I was about 3 and Crantock is certainly ingrained in my memory as being my first home. My mother had taken a position as housekeeper to a Dr Nicholas and with it came Rose Cottage. My father worked as a gardener, this was before he took a job with the Western National busses as a conductor. I have memories of him coming home in his gardening clothes, I used to run and meet ...see more