Looe, East. [Cornwall.]
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DIRECTORY.] 803 LOOE, EAST. [CORNWALL.] Tamblyn Thomas, farmer, Guy's well Vineent William, land surveyor, Addington place Taylor John, mining agent, Higher Lux street Volk & Floessel, watch & clock makers, jewellers, silver Thomas Peter Paul, veterinary surgeon, West street smiths, & dealers in looking glasses, cutlery & concertinas, Thomas Richard, carman, Higher Lux street Fore street Thomas Robert, greengrocer, Baytree hill Wallis William, blacksmith, Parade Thomas William, furrier, Fore street Warren J ames, farmer, Scraches Thompson John Paul, grocer, 2 Fore street Watts John, wool & seed merchant, fellmonger & dealer in Toms Thomas, farmer & landowner, Trevelmond all kinds offeeding stuffs, Russell street Town Hall, Market street Wearren James, farmer, Stracey Trehane Jane (Mrs.), milliner, Lower Lux street Webb's Hotel Company Limit~d (J. W. Chegwidden Treleaven Peter, farmer, Great & Little Treheer manager), Parade. See advertisement Tremayne Susan (Mrs.), boot warehouse, Church street Welsh Ann (Mrs.), dress maker. Church street Tremellen Thomas Francis, grocer, Fore street Wenmoth John, ironmonger & plumber, Market street Trevillion J ames, captain of Wheal N orthwood mine, St. West John, farmer, Lamellion Neot; residence, Wadeland terrace West Thomas, hoot & shoe maker, Dubwalls Trevillion William Lean, captain of Herodsfoot mine; resi- West William, dairyman, Church street dence, Addington place White Thomas, baker, confectioner & corn & flour mer- Trewsidder Robert, lodging house, Manley terrace chant, Dean street Triggs John, Red Lion, Lower Lux street Wilcox Mark, blacksmith, Moorswater Triggs J oseph, tailor, Lower Lux street Williams Joseph, watch maker, Fore street: Trood Edward, silk mercer, linen & woollen draper, hosier, Williams Zachariah, ironmonger & ironfounder, Fore street haberdasher& general outfitter, millinery, dress & mantle Wills Edmund, farmer & landowner, Gt. & Lit. Twelvewood making,funerals& family mourning furnished throughout, Workhouse (Alfred Bailey, master; Mrs. Sophia Bailey, Higher Lux street matron), Rnssell street U'Ren William Way, granite contractor, Grove Park ter Worth John, tailor, Church street Venning Daniel, maltster & brewer, East Cornwall Steam W yatt J ames, coffee house, Well lane brewery, Bay tree hill Young Richard, dispensing chemist, dealer in homreopathic Venning J ames, London commercial inn, West street medicines, family grocer, tea dealer,! talian warehouseman, Venning John, woollen draper, Market street tobacconist & cigar merchant, Parade. See advert LOOE, EAST, is situated on a bay, on the south coast, poses; Trelawny's charity, of .£4: yearly, is for distribution and is well sheltered by high hills. The town is separated in bread and fuel; and the Cole and Elphinstone charity, from West Looe by a creek, which runs up about 2~ miles, founded in 1852, and amounting to £24 yearly, is dis and over which was an old bridge, supposed to have been tributed in money. A short distance south-west of the built in the reign of Edward HI., but, having fallen greatly shore is Looe Island, formerly extra parochial, about half into decay, a new stone bridge was erected in 1853, at the a mile in circumference, the property of Sir John Trelawny, cost of the county, the Harbour Commissioners contributing hart., M.l'. Gross estimated rental of East Looe, £3,029; £1,000 towards the expense of building. The town is 8 rateable value, £2,618; and the population of East and miles from Liskeard, in Liskeard union and county court West Looe in 1871 was 2,194. district. It originally sent two members to parliament, but was disfranchised in the 2nd of William IV.; it is PosT & MoNEY ORDER & INSURANCE OFFICE, Post governed by a mayol", chosen annually, twelve capital bur Office Savings Bank, Government Annuity & Telegraph gesses, a recorder, town clerk, and free burgesses; there are Office.-Miss Tregenna, postmistress. Letters from two courts leet or law courts in the year, and a court on every Liskeard arrive at 7.54: a. m.; dispatched at 3.55 p.m third bfonday from Michaelmas-day. There is a very ex CoRPORATION. cellent harbour, with quays, to which ships of large tonnage • come for cargoes of ore and granite, which are brought Deputy Recorder, Isaac Will cocks, esq from mines and quarries in the neighbourhood of Liskeard, Mayor, George Kerswill, esq by the Liskeard and Looe railway, and are exported from this place. Considerable trade was formerly done in the Aldermen. pilchard fishery, which has now fallen off. East Looe The Mayor John Richard!!, esq chapel is supposed by some to have been originally dedicated Capt. J ames Nicholas Henry Shapcott, esq to the Virgin Mary, and by others to St. Keyne: it was J ames Bishop, esq Robert Henry Shapcott, esq rebuilt in 1806, with the exception of its low square castel Stephen Clogg, esq Robert Thomas, esq lated tower, which stands as in former days. The register George J ackson, esq Charles Tregenna, esq dates from the year 1710. The living of the consolidated Admiral C. W. Riley John Wynhall, esq chapelries of East and West Looe forms a vicarage, of Clerk, Christopher Childs, esq small yearly value, in the gift of the Bishop of Exeter, and INSURANCE AGENTS:- held by the Rev. Arthur Kemble, M.A., of New College, Railway Passengers', G. Kerswill Oxford. East Looe is in the parish of St. Martin's by Looe, Royal Exchange, R. Thomas, Liskeard Bank where its inhabitants ara married and buried, and to the Sovereign Life, R. Shapcott rectory of which the chapelry was formerly annexed. In PuBLIC EsTABLISHMENTS:- 1871 a Mechanic~' Institute was established : it has a very D. C. A. C. (No. 2 Battery), Reginald A. Peter, captain good library, is self-supporting, and is now in a very Coast Guard Station, Alfred LinningtQn, chief officer flourishing condition. Here is a life-boat, presented by Lifeboat In.<Jtitution, Robert Thomas, secretary the National Life-Boat Institution, which is supported by Custom House, John Anderson, examiner voluntary contributions. It is in contemplation to erect Mechanics' Institute, John Gi1es, hon. sec.; R. A. new public buildings, a town hall, increased hotel accom Peter, treasurer modation, which will, owing to its sheltered position, mild PUBLIC OFFICERS:- climate and beautiful scenery, render it quite a popular Looe Harbour Commissioners, Charles Tregenna, clerk watering place. There are chapels for the United Methodist Vice-Consul for Sweden~ Norway, James R. Bishop Free Church, and Wesleyan Methodists. A market is held Railway Station, John Howard, station master on Wednesday and Saturday; and two fairs for cattle, one CARRIERS :- • in February and one in October. The Speccott and Buller LISKEARD-William Hoskin, every Saturday charities, producing £47 yearly, are for educational pur- PLYMOUTH-William Martin, twice a week PRIVATE RESIDENTS. COMMERCIAL. Bishop J ames Rich d. general merchant Bishop J ames, Boscarn Alford William, Fishermans' Arms Butters John, grocer Clog-g Stephen Alger Richard, Su,an inn Clogg Stephen, butcher Giles John Attercliffe Anderson John, baker Clogg Stephen, surgeon Giles .Edward, Shutta Angear J oseph, carpenter Coad Jolm,smith Kerswill George, L.R.C.P. Lond Barber Thomas, master mariner Congdon J ames, coal merchant Nicholas Capt. Jame&, R.M Barrett Robert, sail maker Cook Charles, Ship Nicholas John Barrett Thomas, sail maker, & at West Cook J obn Edward, butcher Peter A. Reginald Looe Couch John, tailor Riley Admiral Chas. Wilson,Klymiarvan Bawden Charles, linen & woollen dra Crapp William Henry, boot & shue Riley Mrs. Klymiarvan per, tailor & outfitter,& agent for the maker Rowe Mrs. Boiler quay West of England Fire & Life Office Davey Henry, master marintr T:regenna Charles, Tregertba Biddick Mark, clothier Davey J oseph, master mariner 51 :a: .