The billiard rooms housed in the Oxford Buildings are on the right; the Palace Cinema is further down the street; and the cycle shop and the Rendezvous Milk Bar are opposite.
Many of the people
seen here would be
day trippers rather
than resident visitors,
having come for a
breath of fresh sea air
on one of the many
excursion trains from
inland.
From the early days of caravan parks, it soon became apparent that visitors wanted the sites to become 'one stop shops'
incorporating shopping and entertainment.
Flood Gate Bar 1892
On the right of the picture is the 15th-
century God's House Tower, formerly
the south-east gate of the old town and
one of the earliest artillery fortifications
in Europe
This panoramic view looks
across the rapidly-drying
mud flat called the Salty in
the foreground, and shows
the point jutting into the River
Teign and the pier at the
Den.
In the Middle Ages silt formed the Doom Bar and cut off the harbour for the larger sailing vessels, but Padstow still continued to be a very important trading port.
The public house on the right is
The White Horse; the statue of a
horse can be seen rearing above
the Tower Ales sign.Towards thebar old stonework still remains,
with a sign for Pullman's
In the late 19th century
this area of Norfolk Street
offered such delights as Mrs
Elizabeth Cockerill, china,
glass and earthenware dealer,
Plowright & Pratt (extreme
right), ironmongers by
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