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Fowey, From Polruan 1898
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The two men in the rowing boat on the left-hand side prepare their craft for leaving the quay. The anchor in the sternsheets, and the rope, might possibly indicate their intent of rowing out to one of the larger moored craft, using the boat as a tender. The steam-powered bucket dredger, in the right-hand middle ground, would have been a comparatively recent

An extract from Picturesque Harbours Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Fowey

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 Fowey

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Oh For The Fowey That Was.
I was born and brought up here. Lived away for 37 years before retiring back here. Nothing like the Fowey of my childhood, full of people who moved here because they loved it and have never stopped trying to change it to their version of a retirement idle ever since.
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A Lost Community.
I was born and grew up in Fowey 1930 - 1948. It was a small tight community in those days but often visited by "outsiders " who came on holiday. I went to Fowey Girls and Infants School first, and then having "passed the Scholarship " went on to Fowey Grammar School, which my father had attended before me, journeying to Fowey by train on the old direct line from Par to Fowey in the earlier years of the ...see more
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Wonderful Memories
I have wonderful memories of Fowey, as a teenager I used to go and stay with a lovely lady in a cottage leading down to the centre. She had a son and daughter but I think they had left home, one to go nursing and the other in the Navy. I remember how the ships used to come into Fowey for the china clay, and the young crew used to come on to the beach with tins of fruit, and all manner of goodies. Being in my ...see more
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