Portloe, Village c.1955
Photo ref: P245007
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Viewed from just above the landing cove of this tiny fishing community on Veryan Bay, this scene has barely changed in modern times. At the far end of the lane is the Portloe United Church, and just this side of it are the two arched openings of the old village limekiln.

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A Selection of Memories from Portloe

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 Portloe

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I was married in Veryan Church on 4th August 1962 to Michael Henry Symons Blamey and we lived in Rose Cottage in Portloe after our marriage. Our son Andrew Mark was  born in 1963 and towards the end of 1963 I moved back to Birmingham which is where I originally came from. I remember the winter of 1962 as a particularly bad one, the local bus had to have chains on its wheels in order to get in and out of ...see more