Boscastle, The Village 1906
Photo ref:
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Photo ref:
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Boscastle's rugged harbour is a romantic inlet, twisting and turning for half a mile between brooding cliffs of slate and shale. Hawsers 'thick as a man's thigh' check the impetus of boats entering on the tide.
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A Selection of Memories from Boscastle
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 Boscastle
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Relating to the two little girls standing in the street, the one on the right is Nellie Davy, my aunt. She was the eldest child of Harry and Mary Ann Davy (nee Ferrett). Nellie and three other siblings were born at Butts but between 1906 and 1908 the family moved to Providence House (now named St. Christophers) where four other children were born. Here Harry ran a grocery business from one of the front rooms ...see more
This picture does not show either of Boscastle's churches. There is one at Forrabury and one at Minster but this is not either
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