St Mawes, The Quayside 1904
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Photo of St Mawes, The Quayside 1904

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The benefits of a growing tourist trade are seen with the rebuilt Ship and Castle Hotel on a prime harbour frontage. The small building to its left is the steamboat office and waiting room for passengers departing for Falmouth.

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Memories of St Mawes, the Quayside 1904

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. These memories are of St Mawes, The Quayside 1904

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My father was born in St Mawes in 1910. On his fourth birthday (so family legend has it) he was given a pair of Dutch wooden clogs. Being a canny child of seafarers, he knew that hollow wooden vessels floated. So when the tide was in, he set off from the steps in the bottom left corner of this picture, planning to walk/float across the water to the steps below the Ship and Castle hotel, seen opposite. The voyage was not, apparently, a complete success.