https://www.fromoldbooks.org/RoundTheCoast/pages/231-polkerris-cornwall/

This 1895 photo looking down on the harbour at #Polkerris #Cornwall #UK
could’ve been taken yesterday, except fishing boat’s gone. Google Street View shows the main road into the village is still only a few inches wide 🙂

I used the #GMIC experimental grey descreen filter in #GIMP to make the scaled-down images for the Web.

#vintagePhotography #vintageArt #fobo #England #village #harbour #oldHarbour #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

Polkerris, Cornwall, 1932 - Frith's Postcard

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/polkerris-cornwall-1932-frith-s-postcard-222911191.htm

#Polkerris #Fowey

There was a lifeboat station in Polkerris in Cornwall as early as 1826, the men that manned the boats were concerned with the sea out of the Fowey estuary and the toing and froing of ships into the port of Fowey itself but covered the western part of St Austell Bay. The size of the estuary at Fowey meant that it was impossible to launch a lifeboat that was powered by oars, it was particularly dangerous during storms, and a decision was made that a lifeboat station would be built on land at the top of the beach.

This new station was built at a cost of £138 on land donated by the Rashleigh family. The first boat, named Catherine Rashleigh was delivered in the November of 1859. The station was named Fowey Lifeboat Station, a name that over the following fifty years caused some controversy, the name was changed three more times from Polkerris Lifeboat Station to Fowey and Polkerris Lifeboat Station and finally Polkerris Lifeboat Station.

My family served as coastguards/lifeboat men in Polkerris from 1837 to 1861. In 1890 this photo was taken; I believe that the man fifth from the left on the bottom row is my great-great-grandfather. He is exactly as my grandfather describe him.

#cornwall #polkerris #coastguard #familyhistory #lifeboat #lifeboatstations #maritime
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