Station Name: PADSTOW[Source: Martin James]
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A July 1930 aerial view looking north-west across Padstow and with the railway station and fish shed just off the picture to the left. The station's north end platform ramp can be seen extreme left. Prominent is the railway jetty which would soon be modified again with a rounded end. This would have been done for a number of reasons including to lessen damage by tidal currents and from collisions. Rather unusually, at the bufferstops north of the station nothing is stabled, while a number of wagons can be seen on the quayside lines and adjacent to the road. Under magnification one appears to be of GWR ownership while another is lettered 'SR' and another 'LMS'. The wagon at the south end of the rake appears at first glance to have derailed but this is merely an illusion caused by a shadow on its load. The Metropole hotel, the postal address of which is Station Road, Padstow, stands left of centre and below it between the sidings and the quay is what looks like a number of grounded cattle wagon bodies. The single storey building to the right of the wagons and facing the river is the, then, Fishermen's Mission while at the far end, on the corner opposite the inner harbour as the road turns westwards, the Custom House stands. Many of the buildings seen in the righthand half of the picture would have in some way been connected with harbour and the fishing industry including residential. Certain other buildings are rather distinctive, for example just beyond the Metropole is what is clearly a garage (the long single stored pitched roof building). Perhaps a reader will be able to inform us about some of the other more distinctive buildings.
Reproduced with the kind permission of Simmons Aerofilms Ltd
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