Station Name: PADSTOW[Source: Martin James]
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The riparian setting of Padstow station and its environs in July 1930. Aerial views such as this are useful for getting one's bearings when studying various ground-level photographs. At bottom left we can see the, then, turntable road beyond which lies Messrs Pawlyn Brothers fish curing depot and stores with more buildings being added-to alongside the building seen in earlier photos. Also clearly seen is the goods shed and its pre-1933 track layout, together with a van, probably for cattle, at the dock just beyond the shed. The passenger station is clearly seen and needs no elaboration; the signal box is seen at the end of the platform and the small building behind the box is the lamp room. Beyond the far end of the platform and on the low level road is an early motor vehicle. Under magnification it has a very distinctive style of bodywork, telling is it is a charabanc; an early form of motor coach with open sides and a roof which could be folded back in fine weather. Early examples usually, but not always, had seating which was set higher along the length of the vehicle in similar manner to raked theatre seating. Prominent in the centre of the picture is the railway jetty which had been extended over the years and had two railway sidings. To its left the fish shed can be seen and the West Quay with its sidings curving round towards, but not extending onto, South Quay. Two further sidings run along the outer wall of the dock. At the extreme top right part of Padstow Harbour can be seen. As always the Metropole Hotel presides over the scene, the side of the building being its rear.
Reproduced with the kind permission of Simmons Aerofilms Ltd
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