St Columb Major, The King's Arms 1888
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Photo ref: 21196
Photo of St Columb Major, The King's Arms 1888

More about this scene

Fore Street is exceptionally narrow at this point, where the King's Arms with its slate-hung upper floor is rather lost in the middle distance. The Town Hall on the left has a meat market on the ground floor, and butchers have come out to pose for the photograph.

A Selection of Memories from St Columb Major

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from St Columb Major

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My paternal grandmother, named in title, was born & lived in Bank Street in 1882, and so she would have been about 9 in this photo!
I have just came across a letter about my father (Matthew Fury) who was killed at St Columb during the Second World War, my father was with his regiment  219/46Light A.A Battery. R.A. The letter was sent to my grandmother in 1941 by my dad's Commanding Officer  (Major A. W. Smyllie) who was billleted at The Red Lion Hotel in 1941. My dad was an Ack-Ack Gunner, when the German aircraft came over dropping their ...see more