Portscatho, Cornwall
Portscatho photos
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Portscatho maps
Historic maps of Portscatho and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Portscatho maps
Portscatho books
Displaying 3 of 14 books about Portscatho and the local area. View all Portscatho books
3 Portscatho photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Portscatho
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I was in Portscatho with my mother on 15th August 1945 (V-J Day). I can remember the singing and dancing by the harbour wall. We were staying with frieds whom I have lost contact with.
Shared on 08 December 2008
Cornwall memories
My pop's father was the Percuil ferryman for the St Mawes Steam Ship Co. My pop was the youngest ferryman taking people from Percuil to the ferry. He was in the local paper in the early 1900s for being the youngest ferryman in Cornwall. There was a photograph taken of him at the time, if anybody has any info on this... [more]
Shared on 08 April 2009
My grandfather (William Bryant) built a houseboat and moored it in Percuil Creek where he, my grandmother and my mother would spend their summers in the 40s. My grandfather and his wife Dorothy were both born in Falmouth in 1902/1903 and my mother Patricia was born in Falmouth in 1932. My grandfather was a shipwright working in Falmouth dockyard... [more]
Shared on 12 June 2008
This is Lower Castle Road and the second cottage which is a slightly darker colour belonged to my parents-in-law, Edward and Nancy Honeyman-Brown. They originally lived in Essex but had taken their holidays in Porthscatho for many years taking hours and hours travelling through the night with their two young sons. On one such visit when the boys had grown up... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2008
My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved to Caragloose Farm, where his father and older brothers worked for Colliver Blamey. Colliver lived at Pennare... [more]
Shared on 30 November 2008
In 1940 our family were living in Southend on Sea in Essex. My youngest brother was born in March 1940. Shortly after that the Battle of Britain began and children were being evacuated away from the town. I was at the time 6 years old. One day the fighting was right over our heads and a German bomber crashed about two... [more]
Shared on 08 January 2010
Yes, I 'grew up' on Fish Strand and still use it to this day. My father kept various boats off the quay and we always had a dinghy moored there, and we still do, my father is now in his 90s and I have 2 grandaughters. I remember people like Willie Henderson and Alec Henderson, and Arthur Randall. Chards Ice House... [more]
Shared on 21 March 2010
Extracts From Portscatho & Cornwall books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Portscatho, inspired by Frith photos.
This archetypal fishing village was once entirely dependent on the mackerel shoals for its precarious economy. In the late Victorian era it became increasingly popular with visitors, and a row of boarding houses was flung up along its sea front. It offers fine sea views round Gerrans Bay to Nare Head.
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Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
The little concrete pier affords some protection to the fishing boats at Portscatho, although it is barely a harbour. Nare Head and the Gull Rock can be seen across Gerrans Bay.
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Guarding the entrance to Falmouth harbour, this lighthouse was completed in 1835 to the design of the Trinity House engineer James Walker, who also designed the famous Needles Lighthouse on the Isle of Wight. The light could be seen 22 miles away by vessels approaching the Lizard Point. Until 1954 a 2-ton bell, the heaviest in Cornwall, was hung below the... [more]
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