D1. Well known engraving. Plenty of artistic licence but interesting nevertheless .Illustrates the 'tide canal' to Perran Wharf and to Tregaskis Quay (top left) below the transverse dam now the A39 and beyond it to Mellingey Creek (now silted up but once a hive of industry known as 'Smelting House Creek' ). Photo |
D2. Prospectus for the creation of Devoran village by the Agar family of Lanhydrock c1830 Photo |
D3. Plan of Devoran Photo |
D4. Toll house by the bridge. Only demolished for road-widening (1960s?) Photo: Miss L Webber. Photo |
D6. Bottom of Market Street. All buildings still exist except the commercial premises on the right. The railway crossing gate is in the foreground. The bricked up doorway on the left still looks fairly new today. Photo |
D7. 'The Weir' - maybe one of the former precipitation pools. The sands have been reworked several times and the weir is untraceable today. Note Brunel's viaduct on the left. Photo |
D8. Old Redruth and Chasewater Railway building used as Rowe's stores after 1916. Photo: Bob Acton. Photo |
D10. A timber workshop erected on the former embankment near Tallacks Creek. Photo: Ralph Bird. Photo |
D11. Two tops'l schooners in Devoran's dying days as a port. The last of the schooners at Devoran. This picture taken before the first world war shows more or less intact quaysides, some coal stores and the ore hutches on the right still in reasonable condition. Photo:Ralph Bird. Photo |
D12. Devoran in the doldrums. Photo:Ralph Bird. Photo |
D13. Devoran in 1904. Robartes Arms can be seen on the left and possibly a chandler's shop between that and the Village Hall on the right. Timber ponds appear to be used for rubbish. Photo: Ralph Bird. Photo |
D14. Devoran - a run-down place after the closure of the railway. Photo |
D15. Devoran. Note Cherry Island. Photo: Ralph Bird. Photo |
D17. 'The Park' (or playing field) being given to the village by Lord Clifden 1919. Probably Mr. Cock speaking and Lord and Lady Clifden on the left. Photo: Jean Lapham. Photo |
D18. Bargee, Mr Albert Opie. 7 Chapel Terrace. Photo: Steve Ivall Photo |
D19. Belmont Terrace. Photo: Ralph Bird. Photo |
D21. Photo of Devoran's principal grocery shop at the top of Market Street. The shop owned by Tobias Michell was taken over by his daughter Meta (Artie) Michell (in the 1920s) who married Captain Murray Short MN. Artie taught at Devoran School and also nursed at Royal Cornwall Infirmary during the first world war. Later she taught at Clare Terrace Falmouth. Tobias had 3 sons. Thomas became headmaster at Hornchurch, Leonard an accountant in London and Howard a journalist in Surrey. Photo: Mrs Jean Nunn (nee Jennings)`. Photo |
D26/27/28. Three aerial photos taken by R.N.A.S. Culdrose and sold locally to raise funds for Devoran Quay Preservation Society c.1988. They illustrate the remains of the former wharves built out into the creek from the original coastline, i.e. Quay Road!. They also covered the former Northern open cast mine embankment and timber ponds were created. Photo 26 Photo 27 Photo 28 |
D29. Aerial photo showing site of Hugh Eddy Stephens boatyard where schooners of 150 tons and upwards were built. Photo |
D30a/b. Moods of the creek from Devoran Photo 30a Photo 30b |
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