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Torpoint mansion moved brick by brick to become Cornish seaside hotel
Torpoint house was dismantled and rebuilt on the coast to become the Whitsand Bay Hotel
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A mansion was moved brick by brick from a growing Cornish town to be reborn as a seaside hotel more than 100 years ago.
Thanckes House in Torpoint, complete with a famed stained glass window, was shifted stone by stone six miles to Portwrinkle. It reopened as the Whitsand Bay Hotel in July 1910 and entertained guests for more than 100 years – before its sad closure in 2018.
Thanckes House was built in 1871 on the outskirts of the growing town of Torpoint. It was the ancestral home of the Graves family and there had been a house on the site called Pengelly House since around 1300. A previous house called Thanckes House was built in 1714, but was torn down in 1870 to make way for its successor.
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This is John Hunter s 1789 nautical map of Port Jackson, New South Wales, the first European printed chart of the waters around Sydney Harbor. Hunter surveyed the area as commander of
H.M.S. Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet under New South Wales first Governor, Arthur Phillip. (Hunter himself would become the second Governor.) Hunter s 1788 manuscript survives in the State Library of New South Wales.
A Superb First ChartThe chart is richly detailed, with abundant soundings, sailing directions, notes with respect to the tides, and especially the location of freshwater streams. The coastlines are shown pictorially, distinguishing between the cliffs facing the ocean and the sandy inward-facing coves. Coves and streams are named, but no settlements are marked - as these had not yet been established. Hunter s survey includes soundings as far as Iron Cove, Five Dock Bay, and Hen and Chicken Bay on the Parramatta River. This