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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]
C.D.E.C. served at Fowey until November 1954, launching on service 65 times and saving 49 lives. [10] On 24 November 1954 Fowey's brand new 46 ft 9in Watson-class Deneys Reitz (ON 919) went on station and spent her entire career at Fowey until withdrawal in May 1980. She had launched on service 155 times, saving 36 lives.
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A passenger service from Fowey to Newquay via St Blazey started on 1 June 1874. [2] The station had two platforms with loading docks and a goods shed at the St Blazey end. [3] It was situated at Caffa Mill Pill on the north side of the town by the River Fowey. Goods trains from St Blazey passed through the station to the jetties where ships ...
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There were two extra trips from Par St Blazey to Fowey. Par St Blazey was a single station, i.e. the later St Blazey. [17] The 1895 edition of Bradshaw's Guide shows three daily passenger trains between Lostwithiel and Fowey; eight from St Blazey to Fowey and nine returning; and four to and from Newquay. [18] [page needed]
In due course both Old Lights were converted by Trinity House into almshouses; [11] the Old Low Light, with the addition of a pitched roof, reopened as Trinity Alms House in 1830. [ 8 ] At some later date the Old High Light became a private dwelling, and it remains so today; it is a grade II listed building. [ 12 ]