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Information about Old Paul Hill |
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
Q. My Grandmother lived in the first cottage on Old Paul Hill. The last time I visited, the complete Row looked as if they were holiday cottages. Can you tell me some history of Old Paul Hill. Granny was Mrs Rowe, next was the Corin's there was a Jenkin, the Curnow's and the Paulin's who rang the hotel which is now a nursing home. many memories if plating on the hill and struggling up it from the shops in the 50s/60s.
Until the late 1880s this was part of a major road from Penzance to Paul, Mousehole and beyond. At that time the road from Penzance ran along the water's edge from the Promenade to Tolcarne, the road was below the Green on the beach, at the Tolcarne end you can still see some of the large blocks of granite which helped form the retaining wall. This road was washed away in a storm in 1880 and another road - the one we call the 'New Road' today - was constructed and a new bridge built over the river in 1883. Before that date the old road ran across from Penzance as I described above, passed the Tolcarne Inn and over the bridge by the Seamans Mission, it then crossed over to Jack Lane and up Old Paul Hill.
Lower Chywoone Hill was not there and it was not until 1890 that a road was cut through from the new bridge to what is today the top of Jack Lane (where Eddy's Bakery was) and then on up the hill. This involved demolishing some old cottages.
As for the cottages on Old Paul Hill today, the only house there which I have researched is Chypons which has quite an interesting history. Originally known as Chypons Villa it was built in the 1850s by Edmund Gear who returned to England from Australia after reputedly having made a fortune there, he was not a Cornishman and it is not known why he and his wife decided to settle in Newlyn. A flat building plot had to be quarried out of the edge of the Coombe, the quarried stone was used to build a high protective wall around the property.
Around 1890 the house was converted to a two story house and since then it has been much altered. You mentioned the Pawlyn family, they acquired the house in the 1920s when Josiah Pawlyn owned a Fish Stores where the Tolcarne Garage is today. His son enlarged Chypons and ran it as a small hotel through the war years and beyond, it became a residential home in 1981. The building has been much altered over the years.
I hope that you will find this of some interest. Should you wish to research your grandmother's home that should be possible using documents such as census returns and early maps.
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