Jenkins Builders

@Hh....local blight I think its been that way long enough

I remember when the front, where the cream doors are,was a scrap merchants place, ferget the name, but he was thought locally to be a paedo, nothing proved of course.

At the rear accessed by a narrow lane and on the ground floor I used to process sea urchins for "Fatty Hall", sadly he is dead now. I can always remember the brothers up on the first floor arguing loudly about things, often coming to blows as their disagreement went out of hand!!

Keith Hall and Pete Deakin who processed his shell on the Albert Pier, helped start the Sea Urchin or as we local boys called them "Zarts" trade. I have dived for, processed and sold these shells in my youth. It was my introduction to the potential of the Cornish waters, indeed I eventually ended up diving for crayfish off the North Cornish coastfrom 1967 to 1971, I was at one time the only Cornishman doing this. Sadly the Crays moved deeper and we all gave up on this.

Duffy ::6

Thought I put a write up here when it was first put up, it was owned by rag and bone man named Parsons in the 50's early 60's.

Re: Sea Urchins
For a few years I lived in the bottom house in Belgravia Street which almost backed on to the workshop which housed the sea urchin cleaning operation. The stench at times was disgusting and I don't how the council allowed such an activity in a residential area. Complaints fell on deaf ears.