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Summer of ''67
I won the Cornish longboard championships at Constantine Bay in 1967. I was the profesional lifeguard at Treyarnon Bay in 1967 and 1968. Friendships established then and still true include Anhtony Richards, Robert Ede, David Powell, Peter Andrews, Rick Stein, Steve Bond, Andrew Blight, Rip Kirby, John Ball, John Jewell, Mike Hannaford and others. Brilliant years never to be experienced again
A memory of Constantine Bay contributed by stuart charles
My favourite place in the world!
I was fortunate enough to live at Trevone and then Padstow from 1951 - 1964, living at Craig-y-Mor which is the white house with the big balcony right down on the bay. I have very happy memories of my childhood there, looking in the rock pools at Rocky Beach and walking to Harlyn Bay with a picnic ... Watching the visitors on the beach all run for cover if there was a shower of rain ... Collecting car numbers from the car park during the summer holidays ...
Having spent my adult life in Hampshire I retired (early) back to Cornwall with my partner and am now living in St Columb Major.
Trevone still has the same attraction for ...read more here
Paradise
Trevone is one of the most beautiful places in England. It has two beaches one sandy & one rocky, I prefer the rocky. My mother first took me to Trevone 62 years ago & it hasn't changed, my father was born in Padstow. What a place to live, you lucky people.
A memory of Trevone contributed by Peter Thomas
Wonderful Trevone
This is one of the most beautiful places in England, the rock beach is my favourite, good for walking, swimming & looking in rock pools. I started visiting when my mother took me 62 years ago (my father was born in Padstow ) & it hasn't changed. I look forward to visiting each year.
A memory of Trevone contributed by Peter Thomas
Extracts From Harlyn Bay & Cornwall books
The palm trees add an exotic touch to the park in this view, which
looks in a similar direction to the 1890 view (No 23967 on page
43). By this date the open spaces have been infilled with housing,
and the Perranporth Hotel can be recognised on the far side of the
pond immediately behind the right-hand tree.
An extract from from"Newquay to St Ives Photographic Memories".
It is just three years after No 41609, above, and the Porthminster Hotel has been given an extension in the form of a smaller
version of the original building. This is a steep site, and the road along the front of Draycott Terrace is supported by a
substantial stone wall. The terraced cottages in Primrose Valley below are still intact.
An extract from from"Newquay to St Ives Photographic Memories".
The church could hardly be closer to the sea. Many of the
buildings can be recognised today, but they are now separated
from the water in the harbour by walls supporting a road and a
walkway. The St Ives lifeboat is on its carriage outside the lifeboat
house on West Pier near the church. The present lifeboat house is
on the near side of the pier.
An extract from from"Newquay to St Ives Photographic Memories".
Spectators on both
sides of the Gannel are
enjoying the annual
August regatta. How
different the Gannel
looks at full tide. There
were once plans to build
a dam to keep water in
the Gannel all the time
as an amenity. This view
looks from the Crantock
side; most of the open
fields on the Newquay
side have since been
covered with houses.
An extract from from"Newquay to St Ives Photographic Memories".
Rows of fishing boats are mostly aground where they are moored
in the harbour. Smaller boats are drawn right up to the buildings
in the background, for the Wharf wall had not yet been built. The
whitewashed Fore Street Methodist chapel is to the right, likewise
built onto the harbour beach.
An extract from from"Newquay to St Ives Photographic Memories".