Lower Largo Beach Front

21/7/2014

Very little seems to have changed during the period between the capturing of these two images of the seafront to the east of the Crusoe Hotel. The black and white image is undated but appeared as a postcard in the 1960s. A quick 'spot the difference' shows that a chimney stack has been removed from the sea-facing end of the Crusoe Hotel, The hotel's immediate neighbour, the Old Baptist Meeting House, has been transformed into a holiday cottage - whitewashed and extended. Some trees in the background have grown but overall the scene is reassuringly similar.

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Frances

4/12/2017 02:06:47 pm

The black and white photograph I think is pre-1950.The Baptist Meeting House is by the Crusoe hotel. A cottage was adjoining the Meeting House that was 'let out to visitors.' One can see the wooden storm shutters on the three windows of the Meeting House. In the sea wall surrounding the Baptist Meeting House was a small stone shed which was used by a fisherman to store and mend creels.
One may also see the remains of the old Pier and rocks which sheltered the new Pier built 1800's perhaps.
When entering the Harbour one had to be careful in a gale to steer the boat along the path of the Kiel Burn between the new pier and the old pier as the pole indicated there were rocks below.
In summers this was a haunt of rod fishers casting for flounders and other fish.
Lines of children also fished with home made rods.
Crab and lobster creels were also sown along the edge of the rocks further out off the tip of the old pier.
After a high tide children would dig at the bottom of the pier ladders to uncover any coins dropped by people entering the pleasure boats.
About middle -way between the end of the Pier and the side of outer wall of the Crusoe Hotel photographers set up their cameras to catch the scores of visitors on a summer day.
The crowds were so numerous and thick children had to muscle their way through.
In the top back ground the building may be the Old Station Hotel that burned down circa 1900?.
Lower Largo was a popular holiday destination.

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