Feock Parish Church
Postmarked 1937 Mylor & Flushing - Old Postcard Views Folio 2 ...some other places around the Fal estuary....
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Feock Parish Church
Postmarked 1937
King Harry Passage
famous for its ferry
I have had a lot of help identifying this scene -
Hilary Watson and Tom Veale have both identified this for me as Coombe Creek. Hilary tells me that both Coombe Creek and neighbouring Cowlands Creek or Coombe Creek are very pretty and well worth a visit. The Plums are known as Kea Plums and are grown mainly around that area. Tom says that as a boy in the late 40s he went up the Fal with his eldest brother to Coombe Creek to buy a boat. After they had beached their own boat, they had to find the man selling the boat and as they searched for him they walked through lanes overhung with plum trees.
Sandra Pritchard writes: The best plums on the Fal / Truro River were grown at Kea in times gone by. The River Fal flows up to Truro past Kea church and there is a short tidal creek inland here. Malpas is on the opposite bank where the river splits into two, one branch going to Truro and the other to Tresillian. There was a foot ferry here once upon a time and it was popular crossing place avoiding a long inland journey around the heads of the creeks..The estate of Lord Falmouth at Tregothnan is also across the water. Malpas [anciently named Mopus] is said to be the place where the bride intended for King Mark of Cornwall fell in love with her escort. It is a very pretty spot, sheltered and warm which is why the plums do well! It was a local beauty and picnic spot. The damsons also grew wild here and many families combined a day out with a little fruit gathering in the autumn. In case anyone is wondering the Damson was like a plum only smaller and sharper to taste but loaded with pectin. Often these fruits were combined with windfall apples and made into a common or garden jam, if you could get the sugar.
I've since found two references on the web to Kea Plums,
apparently there are the Black Kea and the Golden Kea. The
Wadebridge plum is another Cornish type.
http://www.england-in-particular.info/corn(orc).html
http://www.moongardening.cwc.net/neglect.htm
See my guestbook for even more recallations of Plum Gardens Creek
St
Just Creek where it mets the River Fal with Messack
Point in the middle distance. The nearer building is Church Town
Farm and St. Just Pool, were the HMS Ganges was moored, lies to
the left.
St Just-in-Roseland Church
a card by Judge's of Hastings - judging -:) by the number
and style of writing, I think this is pre-second world war
vintage
St Just-in-Roseland Lynch Gate
St
Mawes (Postmarked 1905)
St
Mawes (Postmarked 1915) written in Falmouth "....
there are swarms of soldiers here!"
St Anthony's Lighthouse
at the eastern side of Falmouth Harbour entrance
Falmouth Fish
Strand Quay - I'm not collecting Falmouth cards - too
many, but this one has a lot of atmosphere
Barracks
Ope. Old Falmouth - Card posted 1935. Barracks Ope
seems to be the name of this lane, I don't know the origin, can
anyone tell me? (Possibly Ope is a contraction of Openning.) In
the background is the Trefusus area of the Mylor peninsular
Some interesting old pictures of Falmouth are on the Falmouth Art Gallery web site
See http://www.falmouthmaritime.co.uk/id31.htm for some postcard views of Restronguet Ferry and the Pandora Inn
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