DIRECTORY.] , EAST• 19l • Sando Robert, housfl decorator, I Fore street Town Hall, Fore street Sansom John, architect, Green Bank lane Toy William, farmer, 'l'uelmenna Sargent George, farmer, Tregay Trehane l\fary (Miss), milliner, 22 Fore street Sargent ·william, farmer, Trevelmond Trehane Sampson, builder, Dean street Sargent; "\Villiam, mana.g-er of the Cornish Bank Limited, Trelease John, draper & outfitter, Barn street & borough treasurer & treasurer to the union & Rural 'l'rethewey .A.lice (Miss), dresS' maker, Church street District Council, Barras street Trevena John, gardnr. to S. W. Jenkin esq. Old roacf'c Scantlebury William Rogers, farmer, Caduscott Truscott Alfred, jobmaster, Pike street Short William, blacksmith, Horningtops Truscott John, linen draper, Bay Tree hill Short "\Villiam John, farmer, Poldew Ugalde Alfred John, builder, Castle street Skinner J-oshua, tailor, Church street Venning D. & Son, maltsters & brewers & beer bottlers~. Sleep John, farmer, Trewen East steam b1ewery, Bay Tree hill Smith John D. apartments, Higher Lux street Yenning .Alfred Willmott, solicitor & commissioner for Smith William, stone mason, Castle bill oaths, & agent for the Atlas Life & Fire Insurance Co. Smythurst Thomas .A.braham, organist at parish church, Bay Tree hill 5 Varley terrace Venning Thomas Reed, Bell commercial hotel, Church str Snell Samuel &; Son, boot & shoE1 warehouse, Dean street Verran William, dairyman, Beneathway Snell Nicholas, farmer & dairy, 6 .A.ddington place Verrin William, farmer, Treburgie Snell William Thomas, organising sec. to South East Vivian & Sons, coal mers. Railway station, l\Ioorswater Cornwall Liberal unionist .Association & Unionist Volk Crisp in, watch maker & j e"l"l"eller, Fore street registration agent Volunteer Battalion (2nd) Duke of Cornwall's Light. Sobey Harry, farmer, Pensipple Infantry Regiment (A Co. Capt. W . .A.. Jenkin; Surgn.­ So bey Richard, farmer, Pensipple Major "\Villiam Nettle, medicai officer; Colour-Sergt. Solomon Mary Louisa (Miss), mii!iner, Dean street Peter Edward Byrne, drill instructor), Drill hall, Mar­ Solomon Richard, cabinet maker, 9 Dean street ket building& South East CDrnwall Liberal .A.ss{)ciation (Wm. Cowling, Wadham School, :~ituated in charming grounds, com­ loca1 sec.), Barn street plete home comforts. for boarders; every educational South East Cornwall Liberal Unionist .Association (Wm. advantage; Harry Dewdney B.A. London. head msir Thomas Snell, organising sec) Waiters John, Red Lion P.H. Lower Lux street Spurway Edwin, tailor, Lo"l"l"er Lux street Warne George, coal dealer, Stag Hotel, see Cleave John Webb's Hotel Lim. (Miss Williams, mngrss.), The Parade­ Stamp Office (George William Andrews, distributor), Webstcr .Alex. ~I. land steward fer the ,. Post office, "Windsor place Masonic Hall, The Parade St.antan & Stantan, drapers & hosiers, Fore street Welch Jane, Ann & Augusta. (Misses), farrners,Landazzard Stantan John, farmer, Do bwalls "\Venmoth & Wenmoth, ironmongers&:, plumbers,Market st Stantan Wm. Henry, draper, see Stantan & Stantan Wesleyan Young Men's Institute (T. Chudleigh & .A.. W. Stenleake Mrs. Ma.tilda, apartments·, 2 Tremeddan ter L. Husband, secs·.), Barn street Stcphcns Boaz Kinch, butcher, Dobwalls Western Newspaper CDmpany Limited (The), printers & Stephens Prooton, farmer, Teeburgay Water publishers of the " ·weekly Mercury," Dean st Strong Benjamin, ironmonger, Fore street l\rhite Thomas, baker, Dean street Strong John, registrar of marriages & clerk to Liskeard "\Villiams Joseph, watch maker, Cturch street United Distr.-.ict & St. Neat & St. Ive schonl brds.Barn st Williams Martba (Miss), dress maker, Dean street Sweet J. & Sons, monumental masons, The Parade & Williams Richard, farmer, Newhouse Barn street Williams Richard Henry, engineer, bras3 founder & agri- Sweet Bet.;;y Ann (Mrs.), 10 Dean street cultural implement maker, Liskeard iron wks.Church st-. Sweet J oseph, fruiterer, Dean street "Williams "\Villiam John, shopkeeper, Barn street "\Villiams Richard, farmer, Newhouse SYlllons• Jas. water rents collectDr for the bor{)',Thorne ter Symons .Tames' P. S. greengrocer, LOQe Mills Wills George H. collector of lighting rates for the boro'",. Sym.onS' William, carpenter, 5 Castle gardens Barras street Symons· lVilliam .A.. carpenter, Dean street Wills Harry, grocer & provision dealer, Bay Tree hilt Tamblyn Thomas, jun. farmer, Treburgie ' & Barn street; & at Looe Teague E. (Mrs.) & Son, plumbers, Barras street ·wills James. farmer, Lodge Barton Temperance Hall ( Chas. Isaac, treas. & sec.), Darn st lVilton Henry, blacksmith & horse trainer, Dobwalls Thomas Henry, basket maker, Church street Worden Henry, Victoria inn, Higher Lux street Thomas John T. Railway inn, Barn street; good beds Worth Miss Emily, dressmaker, Church street & stabling; pony & trap for hire Yarmouth Swres, tailors & outfitters (William L. Quick,. Tinney Edith Ann (Mrs.), farmer, Straches manager), Fore street Tonkin John, pork butcher, Higher Lux street Young Richard, chemist & grocer & coal dlr. The Parad·£7· Tonkin William, dairyman, Higher Lux street

LO OE, EAST, formerly a borough, is an ancient town defray€d principally by the county, the Harbour Commig... in a. beautiful position on the east side of a wide creek or sioners contributing £1,238 17'S. 2d. There is an excellent estuary in a bay on the south coast, and well sheltered harbour, with quays, to which vessels of large tonnage can by lofty hills; it affords perfectly safe sea bathing; be brought up for the shipment {)f ore and granite, con.. two navigable rivers affO'rd· excellent fis:hing and boating. veyed here by the Liskeard and Looe railway, and hence The old town with its quaint and rugged gables possesses exported; but since the mines with one exception have­ good· hotels, shops and lodging houses and with a. splendid ceased to work, little or no ore has been exporwd, but· water supply, make it one of the prettiest spots in large quantities of coal are sent from Looe to the Liskeard" Cornwall; it is the terminus of the Liskeanl and Looe districts by the railway; coal, building material, timber; railway, and is 7 miles south-west from Menhenhiot deals, flooring, scantling, manure and limestone are· station on the Cornwall (Great Western) Tailway, 8 south the materials imported year:y; this, with the ex­ from Liskeard, 14 west from Plymouth and 23I from portation of corn and the fishing and fish curing, forms. London, in the South East€rn division of the county, the stapla business of the town. The town is hundred of "\"Vest, petty sessional division of West, Lis­ lighted with gas, first introduced in 1866, the gas keard union and county court district, rural d€anery of works being at some little distance north of the· "\Vest, a.rchdeaconry of and diocese of . town, on the river. East Looe, as a. parliamentary .A.n .Act wa!'l obtained in 1895 for a junction at Liskeard of borough, returned two members until its disfranchise­ the Liskeard and Looe railway with the Great Western ment by the Reform Act of I832: it was first inCXI.rporatect· system. The new line, opened in rgoi, commences at by Queen Elizabeth in r587, and other charters were sub-. Coombe, 6~ miles from Looe, and I30 feet above sea sequently granted by J ames I. and J ames II. ; the cOr"-· lsvel, proceeding thence by a lvop running round the poration consisting of a mayor, 12 capital burgesses, a hill sides, and risin~ at an average grade of I in 45 to number of free burgesses, ·-recorder, town clerk and sub­ an altitude of 340 feet awve sea level to the junction ordinate officers, and holding two court-leets in the year, at Liskeard; tbi.s charming old Cornish town is thm but by the Municipal Act, 1883 (46 and 47 Vict. cap. r8), for the first time bron!iht into direct rail communication the jurisdiction of the courts was abolished, the place· with London, which can now be reached in 7 hours. East ceased to be a corporate town and the corporation was Looe is separated from West Looe by a creek, runing in­ dissolved : all cmporate property was then vested in the bud for 2~ miles, formerly crossed by a narrow bridge of Charity Commissioners, who appointed " The East Looe I_<; arches, supposed tD have been constructed in the refgn Town Trust," consisting of 5 eo-optative and 6 represen­ of Edward Ill.; but tJhis having fallen into d'ecay, a stone tative trustees as administrators· of the property of thf!'. bridge of 9 arches was erected in I853, at a cost of £2,984, late corporation and of the waterworks. East and Wesit