Padstow, Harbour 1901
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Most of the coastal trading vessels working out of Padstow were schooners or ketches, and many earned their keep beach trading. Though by 1901 the railways had captured a large percentage of what had previously been sea-borne freight, there were areas where it was still viable to move bulk, and even general cargo, by coaster. Many of the vessels employed in the beach trade were old when they came to it, costing their new owners between £200 and £500. They would run onto a beach and wait for the tide to go out; then the cargo would be loaded into horse-drawn carts, and the vessels would float off on the incoming tide. The business was effectively killed off around Cornwall after World War I; lorry ownership rocketed as the military sold off surplus vehicles at give-away prices.
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