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Sorry we no longer provide our 'Chichester Interest Holidays'. We are still providing Bed and Breakfast from mid-March to October and happy to support
walkers, mineral collectors, archaeologists, natural historians etc. in pursuing their interests in our lovely County and guests who would just like a clean and friendly place to stay.
WELCOME TO NEWQUAY. January 10th and it is not raining.
I am updating my web pages at the moment. Last year I decided to set up some pages of interesting places to visit
in Cornwall - 'Out and About...' that Steve and I like and didn't get very far! My excuse is we had a lot of work done to our house in the spring.
I set up a local archaeology group which meets monthly. Later Steve and I had a holiday in Cornwall bug hunting with Maria Justamond and Graham Bell.
I even visited family and went to the British Micromount Symposium in Leicester. So different from running Interest Holidays.
And of course there is Chichester Guest House to look after.
Apart from attacking the web site as our income has dropped I have been looking at our finances and have cut a
lot of advertsing and membership
of clubs and societies. I have also dropped out of the Quality Assurance Scheme that gives our guest house it's two star grading.
It costs us over £200 per year. This won't affect you at all - you won't notice the difference apart from their logo disappearing
off our advertising.
We have done
a lot of local history
including taking our local archaeology group to
have a look at the remains of the Harbour of Refuge off Towan Head which Treffry was having built before he died in 1850.
He owned the Manor of Towan Blystra and wanted a safe place of
refuge for shipping when it could not get into the harbour because the wind was in the wrong direction. Building of the
harbour ceased after he died. Slowly the sea took its toll
and what structures had been built were destroyed. Local knowledge says not much is left and much of the stone has been
used elsewhere in car parks and such like.
So we were pleasantly suprised to see there was a lot more than expected including some handsome granite blocks still
in situ which may be the foundation stones. We followed courses of rock
reflecting the walls the harbour - luckily it was a very low tide and we were much impressed with what we found.
Further work surveying the harbour would be a great project. We also went up on Towan Head and had a look at various
features there from a Mesolithic flint I found exposed in a path way to war time relics such as the pill
box shown in the photo below - now well camouflaged with Hottentot Fig.
We shall still be running the guest house next year so may be we will see you then.
Best Wishes, Sheila
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All Best Wishes, Sheila
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