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Bude - relics from the past

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By old_school at 10:42 on 17/04/11

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 Carved granite stone on Leven Cottages inscribed AJA 1589, named after Anne and John Arundel
Carved granite stone on Leven Cottages inscribed AJA 1589, named after Anne and John Arundel
  • Carved granite stone on Leven Cottages inscribed AJA 1589, named after Anne and John Arundel
  • Granville Quay cottage, named for the quay which existed on the river nearby, before Nanny Moore's bridge was built
  • Villa Hall, built 1775 as a summer residence for the Arscott family of Tetcott
  • Carriers Inn - from the 17th century, probably originally a farmhouse
  • King Street - one of Bude's oldest streets, also dates to the 1840s
  • Hartland Terrace - built mid-19th century for the nascent tourist trade
  • Bude's first chapel, behind Lansdown bakery
  • Bude's second chapel - now the Villa auction rooms
  • Garden Terrace - now Lansdown Road - another mid 19th century road
  • No. 1 Garden Terrace - Bude's first Post Office
  • Sampson House - Early cottages, built on Blanchminster land.
  • Sign on Sampson House
  • Granite block in the Triangle and its original use - as Bude's water supply in what was then Blanchminster Square
  • Some old street signs from the early 20th century
  • Inn on the Green and Crooklets Inn - built 1899 to 1900
  • Present Globe Hotel (1903) and its predecessor
  • Killerton Road - original home of St Petroc's school
  • Bude's first (permanent) cinema, built 1922
  • Present Post Office, opened 1928 and built on a site originally intended for a new parish church
  • Leven Cottages built in the 16th century by the Arundels of Trerice as a tidal mill
  • Nanny Moore's bridge - contemporary with Leven Cottages
  • Second oldest building in the Strand, dates from about the 1840s and was originally known as Tapson's Terrace after the man who had it built.
  • Villas 2
  • Ebbingford2
  • Lifeboat house - built about 1863 with funds from the family of Elizabeth Moore Garden, after whom 3 of the early lifeboats were named
  • Falcon Hotel, an old coaching inn from about 1825, enlarged in the 1870s and then again in 1912, when the central tower was added and several cottages in Falcon Terrace were absorbed
  • The Crescent - built in the 1820's, supposedly to house men working on the canal; has had several names including South Terrace, Shalder Terrace and, somewhat rudely, Frying Pan Row
  • Today the Olive Tree but formerly one of the warehouses on the canal's lower basin operated by the Vivians
  • Lansdown Mews, previously a livery stables and "Posting Establishment" from which horse-drawn carriages were hired out; possibly a much earlier farmstead.
  • Site of the railway station, the line was extended to Bude in 1898 and closed 1966
  • Petherick's warehouse on the upper basin - they owned the Ceres and later the Traly
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  • Profile image for dawnrw

    Thanks to you all for your comments and to Old School for his/her amazing pictures of Bude. They are fabulous. Keep them coming, if you can, and thanks so much for sharing with the Bude People readership. You cannot believe how popular your galleries are!! Maybe an exhibition in the Willoughby next???

    By dawnrw at 21:50 on 25/04/11

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    Nanny Moore's bridge was originally for packhorses and carts as well as pedestrians. One end section is cantilevered so it can be lifted to allow the passage of boats. The bridge was formerly known as Bude Bridge and led to Efford Mill, a tide-mill built in the late 16th century by the Arundells of Trerice. The bridge was renamed in the early 1800s after a dipper who lived in a nearby cottage.

    By Stephen_Blake at 13:07 on 25/04/11

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    Nanny Moore was a widow who lived in one of the cottages next to the Bridge (Leven Cottages) in the early to middle part of the 19th century. She was an attendant to the bathing machines - this when the Victorians had decided that sea bathing was good for your health - and assisted the people using them to immerse themselves, especially when the temperature of the water sapped the courage of the more timid ones! The name for people thus occupied was a "dipper". She died in 1853 and is buried in St Michael's churchyard.

    By old_school at 11:37 on 25/04/11

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    Who was Nanny Moore (re the bridge?)

    By dawnrw at 09:43 on 25/04/11

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  • Profile image for John_Gimson

    A great gallery OldSchool, many thanks for publishing it. Look forward to seeing the next batch! Best wishes

    By John_Gimson at 09:49 on 19/04/11

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