Posts for Crooklets
What is the history of these buildings at Crooklets?
Please can you ask on Your local history page, what the history is of these two buildings at Crooklets? I believe the one to the far left is called Ocean House. The reason I’m interested is because the old Penarvor Hotel has sadly been demolished next door.
Bude Old Photos – can you help date them?
Thanks very much to Karina Price for these photos from her grandparents in response to our request for good news/happy things. Can anyone date any of them? c
Crooklets beach huts – the bad old days
Found some old photos probably dating from around 2012. Compare and contrast with what you see today.
Do people still send postcards?
Who remembers the days when everywhere we went we posted cards home to family and friends? Sitting writing a card was a part of any holiday. Now it’s all Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, not least due to the cost of stamps. This one is, I think, from the 1970s, showing […]
Question from a reader
Hello – after the great success of Bude at War I was trying to find out more about the Jeep that was uncovered on Crooklets beach around 25 years ago after a storm. Apparently, when the sand was drawn back the Jeep was uncovered; did anyone get any photos of it […]