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By Landline Telemarketing at 08:52 on 13/10/11

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Brill.....thanks Old School

By Landline Telemarketing at 09:51 on 20/10/11
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I have uploaded a small gallery with a bit of information about the breakwater, Sir Thomas' (Tommy's) Pit and Ocean Caves.My thanks to the Bude Canal and Harbour Society for the extracts from the Canal Company document of 1904, which can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/6b5nck2

By old_school at 20:50 on 19/10/11
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Very interesting thanks for your comments. I think the sea pool idea, works well. I just cant see why someone would bother to build such a structure with seats at the back, without an obvious reason. Will continue to investigate

By Landline Telemarketing at 09:01 on 17/10/11
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I don't know if this is connected but there was a second, "private sea pool" beyond the breakwater.

Checkout the following -
http://tinyurl.com/624ccxj

"Alexandra Buxton also mentions Sir Thomas's Pit (or Tommy's Pit), a rock pool at the far end of the breakwater under Barrel Rock. It was constructed in 1859 by Sir Thomas Acland as a bathing place for men only. Bathers paid the custodian tuppence a swim and were fined a penny if caught swimming naked."

By Ray Coles at 19:46 on 15/10/11
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If it's of any use to you, they don't date back to earlier than about 1840, when the second breakwater was built, because the area behind them was a used as a quarry for some of the stone for said breakwater. All of them have always had seats at the back, even the shallow ones and they are known locally as Ocean Caves. I have never heard mention of them having an industrial heritage.

By old_school at 17:57 on 15/10/11
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