The watchtower
East Looe Town Trust’s Old Lifeboat Station and Watchtower (“OLS”) Heritage Led Regeneration Project successfully bid for this substantial funding, in the face of stiff competition, without which this multifaceted project would have been impossible
The Trust invested money and considerable effort in repurposing the iconic buildings on the seafront.
The Watchtower is now the offices for the Trust and The Old Lifeboat Stations is now Penrock Distillery.
The workshop opposite the Watchtower received a partially new roof – if you look closely at the slates you may be able to tell that they look slightly different to the usual slates. These are photo-voltaic and the energy gathered is stored in a battery and powers the workshop and the office.
An online Looe lifeboats’ history and archive will be commissioned that brings together the exciting exhibits held in the Looe Museum with a wealth of documents data and photograph donated by Project Ryder – the charity that operated the restored Ryder Looe lifeboat. The focus will be on the crews who gave service between 1866 and 1930, connecting with many of today’s Looe families.
A new ‘Devon & Cornwall’s Great Scenic Railways’ circular walk will lead seafront visitors through the Wooldown’s wartime and conservation sites, and the historic town.
The project was funded with the help of a £289,000 investment from the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Culture and Heritage-led Regeneration and Skills programme, which is managed by Cornwall Council and funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
