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| In medieval times there were two towns
on opposite banks of the River Looe. East
Looe includes the fishing harbour, the main shopping centre and the
sandiest beach. West
Looe is quieter, but also has shops, restaurants and hotels and leads
to Hannafore with its fine views of Looe Island. The two towns are
joined together by a bridge across the river. |
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Most recent development -
29 June 2009
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Did Jesus
Christ come to Looe?
Channel 4's popular archaeology programme, Time
Team, earlier this year was from Looe and Looe Island -
investigating the ancient chapel on the highest point of the island
and a matching one on the mainland. Legend has it that Jesus visited
Looe when a boy and it seems that Mediterranean traders did come to
Looe. The team found various artefacts including a Roman coin so maybe
the legend could have a grain of truth in it? More
abouth the Time Team programme
Visit our page about Looe Island (also known as St. Michael's
Island and later as St. George's Island) - click
here |
Nelson
returns - in spirit at least
 For
many years Looe had a popular & much-loved regular visitor to
its harbour - a seal called Nelson (because he had lost one eye in
an injury or accident). Sadly Nelson has gone to the great ocean in
the sky but now he is fittingly commemorated by a handsome life-size
statue in the harbour which was formally unveiled in 2008 by Sir Robin
Knox-Johnston, the famous sailor. Local sculptor Suzie Marsh gave
her services in making the sculpture free of charge and the costs
of casting and siting the bronze statue were met by grants and donations
from many charitable and other bodies and by individuals. Click
on photo for large version.
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 Virtuoso
Performance Daily
It's a daily event that probably few people even notice, but no less
remarkable for that. What is it? The daily delivery by articulated
pantechnicon to the Somerfield supermarket in East Looe. Because the
store is located a long way up Fore Street, a narrow, winding street,
with nowhere to turn, the Somerfield delivery truck has to make its
delivery by reversing 250m along this narrow and curving street which
also has other traffic in both directions and the occasional illegally
parked vehicle to contend with as well. Generally Somerfield's drivers
do this completely unaided and so expertly that hardly anyone notices.
This must be the nightmare delivery run to be sent on first time,
but when they have mastered it drivers must feel a great sense of
achievement and pride in their driving skills. Next time you are buying
your groceries at Somerfield spare a thought for the skill of the
drivers on the Looe delivery!
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LIFE
ABOARD A CORNISH FISHING LUGGER
 The
last days of working fishing luggers in Cornwall are vividly captured
in a new book by former Looe fisherman Paul Greenwood. His
frank account of the hardships he encountered at sea as a young crewman
aboard the lugger Iris in the 1960s is a brilliant evocation
of a bygone age that contrasts with modern conditions in the fishing
industry today.
In Once Aboard A Cornish Lugger, the
author describes how he overcame sea-sickness and learned his job
on deck working the nets and lines alongside four other crewmen aboard
the Iris, skippered by Frank ‘Moogie’ Pengelly, the last lugger skipper
left in the port of Looe. In the four and a half years he spent aboard
the Iris, Paul Greenwood endured fatigue, cold and wet, often in rough
weather while working night and day hauling nets and lines. “Those
four years that I worked with ‘Moogie’ set me up well for the rest
of my sea-going career,” he says, “because nothing subsequently ever
seemed as hard or as physically demanding as the time I spent working
on the deck of the Iris.”
Visit our new page on Cornish
luggers which has details of how and where you can buy this
new book - click here |
Finding
the Lord where potatoes once were stored
If your idea of a church congregation is a faithful few of advancing
years then you've clearly not heard about the Grace Community Church,
an independent Evangelical church, which meets in a converted farmhouse
and potato barn at Morval near Looe and regularly has around
200 worshippers each Sunday and has recently opened two new churches
in Bodmin and Torpoint. Interested? More information on the
church and its service times may be found on www.graceccmorval.co.uk
or phone 01503 240930 (office hours) / 01503 24033 (outside office
hours) |
Roman
Catholic Church, West Looe Hill - new times for Mass:
Weekday Mass, Fridays 10.30 am.
The First Mass of Sunday (Vigil Mass) at 5.30 p.m. every Saturday
evening .
A Sunday Mass will continue to be celebrated at Sclerder Abbey at
9.15 am every Sunday.
Enquiries to Priest-in-charge, Fr David Annear - 01503 272627.
Further notices on Parish Website www.sclerder.talland.org
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Looe Harbour Commissioners - 01503 262839
Looe Town Council - 01503 262255
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