This is what I found on it, Sher, thanks to Joy Langdon. Dot http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~helstonhistory/loebarpage.htm -----Original Message----- From: Sher Leetooze Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 3:13 PM To: Dot Hosking Huntley ; cornish@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [CORNISH] West Briton, 19 December 1856 NEWS Hi Dot: The Looe Pool (Loe was misspelled) is the inner harbour at Looe. The Bar is the sand bar at the edge of the pool that can only be crossed at high tide. Most ships sailed with the tide. Sher At 09:41 AM 12/12/2012 -0800, you wrote: >Can anyone explain what the Loe Pool, etc is about? > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Julia Mosman >Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 10:48 PM >To: cornish@rootsweb.com ; cornish-gen@rootsweb.com >Subject: [CORNISH] West Briton, 19 December 1856 NEWS > > > >WEST BRITON AND CORNWALL ADVERTISER > >19 DECEMBER 1856 ­ transcribed by Julia Mosman >. >LOCAL INTELLIGENCE >. > >. >HELSTON - On Friday last, the Loe Pool was broken at the bar. For several >days previously relays of men were employed in cutting through the shingle, >which in consequence of not having been broken for three years, was a work >of great difficulty. The whole of the valley for nearly two miles presents >a >very desolate aspect, from the great accumulation of deposit from the >country above. The mine at Nansloe is now being proceeded with, the sett >for >working it having been recently granted. >. > >------------------------------- >Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com >with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, >MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > >Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to >CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >Version: 8.5.455 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/5452 - Release Date: 12/11/12 >17:36:00