Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The medieval town hall, now occupied by the Fowey Museum. The site currently occupied by the town hall complex was originally inhabited by a 14th-century guild chapel. [2] The first municipal building on the site was a medieval single-storey merchant's house built in rubble masonry and completed in the 15th century.
Fowey Town Hall, on the Town Quay, was completed in 1787. [12] Fowey elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons until the Reform Act 1832 stripped it of its representation as a rotten borough, it having lost its borough corporation a few years before. [13]
The minuscule home was built in the 16th century and remained in use until 1900, when the tenant was a 6-foot-3-inch (1.91 m) fisherman named Robert Jones. The rooms were too small for him to stand up in fully and he was eventually forced to move out when the council declared the house unfit for human habitation, along with a number of properties.
Place House was designated as a Grade I listed building on 13 March 1951. It is a large house built of stone, dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. The south front has two storeys, each with five windows, and a pair of ornamented early sixteenth century bay windows.
Polkerris. The old lifeboat house at Polkerris is now a café. The position of the mouth of the River Fowey meant that it would be nearly impossible to launch a "pulling and sailing" lifeboat (that is, one powered by oars and sails) during the more dangerous storms when the wind blew from the south, and so it was decided to station the lifeboat at Polkerris, a small fishing village with a ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
Place_House,_Fowey.jpg (285 × 169 pixels, file size: 19 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
Old Town (Cornish: Treveglos "church town") [1] is a village on St Mary's in the Isles of Scilly located southeast of Hugh Town. [2] It is thought to be the oldest settlement on the island. It is a popular tourist area and is only a short distance from the island's airport .