The Sea Palace
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The Sea Palace

Quay Street, Penzance. 25 April 2009
A great place to eat. Used to be the Tarot. Before that...?
I have a vague recollection of it having been a store, Farm Industries or something like that? There are some old pictures of Quay Street in the albums, maybe a name will show? It was a shop and store in 1920 or so. A grocer in 1895 (Henry Row), and ten years previously it was a Ship s Block Maker s. If no one else comes up with anything, I could probably find better information in time.
 
I have traced Henry Row Grocer back to 1893 (Kelly s Directory). Unfortunately the practice of recording and numbering premises did not start in any detail until around 1880. I have found several reference to a 3rd Public House The New Inn, sailmakers, shipwrights and carpenters (including a John Symons any relation SS55?) which you would expect to find. It would appear that there was a lot of development in the area after 1825.
 
This is the trouble that I am encountering with another street in town; it means a painstaking trawl through census records, tithe apportionments and lease records either side of the property; it is not an overnight answer; the hard one is what it was directly before it became Le Tarot.
 
A thought - maybe the Sea Palace would be interested in offering information from the Deeds. Many Deeds go back to around 1820 in Penzance.
 
Next time you go in there, ask if any information can be got - as you are researching Quay Street .
 

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