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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]
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.
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.
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.
The Old Guildhall is a municipal building in Higher Market Street in Looe, Cornwall, England. The structure, which is currently used as a museum, is a Grade II* listed building . [ 1 ]
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There was a basin at Moorswater, located in the area near the present-day railway level crossing, close to the point where Old Road crosses under the A38 main road. A reservoir was built immediately north of the basin area. It was designed for 20 tonne barges; water supply was from the upper reaches of the East Looe River and the Crylla.
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