Heybrook Bay

The photograph below shows Heybrook Bay as it looked in the 1930s.

The large building in the centre of the picture is what is now the ‘Eddystone Inn’ but back then was the “Heybrook Bay Hotel”. During the war years it was requisitioned by the Admiralty and became the WRNS Quarters for the Naval Camp at Wembury Point. After the war, when it was again in private ownership it became “The Seahorse Hotel”. Now the Eddystone Pub.

At the top of the hill, partially blocked by the telegraph pole on the right of the picture is ‘Pantiles’, which since the 1950s has been occupied by the Etchells’s.
The second house, going up the hill, on the lower side, is ‘The Haven’ where Mrs Trott ran her mission church “The Church of the Holy Nativity” until late into the 1970s. The large house at the bottom of the bottom of the hill was the “Heybrook Bay Guest House” which was also requisitioned during the war. Some of the houses at the top of the hill were flat roofed and in the Art Deco style. At the bottom of the slope in the foreground on the right hand side was the “Rendezvous Cafe”, where it was possible to buy ice creams and bottles of lemonade. This closed in the 1960s and is now a private house.