On Newlyn Green. Does anyone have an official name for this overgrown rockery?! There is a Frith picture (which can't be posted here for copyright reasons) from the fifties I believe which shows this much extended with seats upon it. Does anyone remember this?
It was built as a part of the original gardens to commemorate the Queen Victoria Jubilee 1897; I think it was an open air stage for local performers. Certainly in later years it became the place for seating, as you say. I am searching through lots of old pictures for such answers .. it is going to take quite a while to sort it along with the rest of it.
It is a good job that we have someone like yourself welb1931 here - my uncle Albert Pascoe used to talk of that, trouble is that as life continues, and as my family depletes, my memory has gone with them; he was stationed at Dover, but lived at Taroveor Terrace.
The remnants of that path are there, but there has been an addition of a set of three granite steps. When I was a child, it was transformed into a castle and we fought battles, leaping over the battlements onto the oncoming enemy .... Sweet child of youth ...
It probably wouldn t be built today for health and safety reasons! I used to play on it pretending it was a castle, as does my daughter now. It s a generational thing, like sitting on the cannon outside the library used to be before some barbarian nicked it. :-x
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