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The following year, the East and West Looe Harbour and Bridge Act was passed, which stated that "the present bridge across the harbour is dilapidated and ill built". [15] A similar description of the old structure said that it was a "narrow time-eaten bridge [that] had become ruinous and dangerous". [16]
The old lifeboat station from 1866. To the east of Looe is the expanse of Whitsand Bay. While attempting to run for the safety of Plymouth Sound many sailing ships became embayed, unable to sail around Rame Head. Wrecks were frequent and Looe men made many rescues before the lifeboat station was established.
English: Bridge Marker on Quay Road, West Looe, in the east facing retaining wall of a walkway below the Old Bridge House. Looe parish. Near the west end of old Looe Bridge opened 1436 and pulled down in 1853. There is a similar stone in East Looe in the east facing wall of a car park opposite the Co-op in Fore.
Looe is 20 miles (32 km) west of Plymouth and seven miles (11 km) south of Liskeard, [4] divided in two by the River Looe, East Looe (Cornish: Logh [1]) and West Looe (Cornish: Porthbyhan, [1] lit. "little cove") being connected by a bridge. [5] Looe developed as two separate towns each with MPs and its own mayor.
OLD BRIDGE – The township may have to pay $21.1 million to the federal Environmental Protection Agency as its share in the $151 million cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund Site.
Weeks into the drones-over-New Jersey mystery, the FBI and Homeland Security are finally stepping up to investigate and determine what threat, if any, they might pose. Garden State residents have...
The canal started from a point on the tidal East Looe River just below Terras Bridge, about a mile (about 1.5 km) above Looe bridge.When the railway branch line was built, a bridge over the canal was made, and this bridge can still be seen, showing the alignment of the canal at its lower termination.
That's a beautiful way to kick off the new year! This sweet young dog was clearly frightened, even as he decompressed in the safety of Jon's car.