Looe
April 3, 2019
Today's harbour is ...Looe....run by one of only 2 female HMs in the country (she thinks). Thank you Tina Hicks, Assistant HM Mark Veale and Clare for so much information about Looe.
Tina's grandfather was a smuggler... for real!
Tina runs a huge commercial enterprise including a vast amount of property, a fish market (famous for its Day Caught fresh fish), numerous civil engineering projects (she has been working on doubling the length of their "banjo" shaped peer for the last ten years.
Looe town centre is below sea level and gets regularly flooded, it is also a town that was historically at war with itself (between East and West sides of the estuary) until the 1980s.
Looe has so many unique aspects to it..... but maybe none so unique as this super-friendly female Harbour Master (or should that be Mistress?) whose job description includes having to dress up as a Santa's reindeer for the Christmas fun run!
Photos include the dry harbour at low tide which prevented Good Dog entering, the back streets of Looe (Cornwall's Venice?), wooden wedges driven into the harbour wall to hold it up and the fish market. Finally, I was coffeed in the smartest HM boardroom.... yet!
Tina's grandfather was a smuggler... for real!
Tina runs a huge commercial enterprise including a vast amount of property, a fish market (famous for its Day Caught fresh fish), numerous civil engineering projects (she has been working on doubling the length of their "banjo" shaped peer for the last ten years.
Looe town centre is below sea level and gets regularly flooded, it is also a town that was historically at war with itself (between East and West sides of the estuary) until the 1980s.
Looe has so many unique aspects to it..... but maybe none so unique as this super-friendly female Harbour Master (or should that be Mistress?) whose job description includes having to dress up as a Santa's reindeer for the Christmas fun run!
Photos include the dry harbour at low tide which prevented Good Dog entering, the back streets of Looe (Cornwall's Venice?), wooden wedges driven into the harbour wall to hold it up and the fish market. Finally, I was coffeed in the smartest HM boardroom.... yet!