The indoor baths

Where the man is working that building was occupied by a couple in the 50 s, there used to be a right of way behind West Terrace that put you on to a sort of board walk of the main house there was a boat suspended on davits over the side of the sea wall..never did see it used. As for West Terrace I have heard it said that one didnt use the facilities of those homes when there was a flowing tide and a heavy ground sea...when one could get ones own back...so to speak !!!

Around 1930, the baths were closed; the front was demolished and a new building erected as the Cafe Marina, with a dance hall; in 1935 there was a fire, and the building had to be demolished completely.

@wellb1931 ... you mention a bottle factory ... do you know anything about the bottles etc? The area was Sand dunes on clay, over the rock before the advent of the mine.

Im afraid not, there was a lot of stupid people just smashing what was found - the bottles were of the type with a marble inside if you remember them....

Thanks, that will help to broadly date it; it was possibly to provide water/wine for the miners; I am not up on old bottles. Shame some were not saved. Something the Victorians had was interest and museums. We are getting that back, but with the wrong stories; I have seen some crackers, I reckon Frank Carson wrote the cards.

The marble stopper was devised by Mr Codd in 1871, so that lets out any ideas of miners uses. The factory must be on the 1875 map, I would say; I need to identify more.

I have one of those old bottles from Hocking and Cleave,Redruth as a child we could buy a bottle of pop for a penny half-penny of which was a deposit but sometimes the marble was too tempting !!

Great stuff. I am minded to think that the Baths were rather keen on selling waters with various efficacious minerals. There were three drinks manufactories in town (one of which was owned by the father of my cousin), and various minerals and concoctions were made (the Victorians had rather bad eating habits - well, the wealthy ones). This could have been an in house business of some kind.

Just came across this in Courtney 1825-1875
At the west of the Promenade is Wherrytown. In the beginning of this century Captain Curtis started a Mine at this place, but it soon ceased to be worked, and for nearly thirty years was idle, until in 1836 it was resumed by a company. After a year or two it was again stopped; the mine buildings were utilized by Mr. J. J. A. Boase, the owner of the soil and lord of the Wherry Mine. He turned the counting-house into the house which was long the residence of the officer of the coast-guard, and is now occupied by the chief boatman. Mr. Boase afterwards built a row of cottages for the coast-guard men, and within recent years cottages have been built by other people.
So that goes along with my other sources ....

Those cotttage were known as Boase s Row were they not ??