Gorran Haven, The Harbour 1890
Photo ref:
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Photo ref:
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The characteristic square block of the fish cellars just above the two gigs in the picture betrays Gorran Haven's past as a fishing village. It was also known for boatbuilding - vessels built at Dick Pill's boatyard in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were highly regarded, and were used as far away as the east coast.
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A Selection of Memories from Gorran Haven
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 Gorran Haven
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I am the dark haired young man sitting upright in the boat in the bottom left hand corner of the photograph taken in 1961. The boat was the Judith Mary built by Percy Mitchell for my late father, Spencer Clarke, in Portmellon in 1949. I have a cine film of the boat being launched and in fact have cine films dating from 1949, through the fifties, sixties, seventies and eighties taken in Gorran Haven before video took ...see more
I'm writing about my mother and father who, during 1939 and 1940 lived at 'Cherry Tree' and 'Park Cottage', Gorran Haven. Does anyone remember these houses. Perhaps the house names have been changed since - possibly become holiday cottages, I have tried, on the internet to find them to no avail. My brother remembers an early warning siren to warn of overhead invasion. My parents names were Kay and ...see more
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