2019
SX4350 : Penlee Lodge, St Andrew's Place, from New Road, Cawsand
taken 5 years ago, near to Cawsand, Cornwall, Great Britain
Penlee Lodge, St Andrew's Place, from New Road, Cawsand
Grade II Listed gatehouse for Mount Edgcumbe Estate around 1860. Built on basement storey of Napoleonic fortification, with addition of late 20th century and alterations. In the 1861 census a Richard Buttons is listed at 34 Church Road, Italian Cottage, possibly now the Penlee Lodge. The 1911 census list Thomas Pearse a woodranger at the Mt Edgcumbe Estate the head of the house with wife, daughter and son. Reminisces of a lady born in 1916 includes 'There was always a game keeper that use to live in Penlee Lodge He was a Very kind man, a Mr Hawke by name and every Christmas he used to cut us a splendid tree from the woods for us all to enjoy. I remember Mum sending us all up to thank him and take him up a large packet of Players Cigarettes, they cost 11 ½ in those days.' (11.1/2d = 4.1/2p).
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