The Haven - Built 1906

• 1950

• This Painting 1960 shows four Rolls Royce CEO guests from Duffield, with their families and each driving a Rolls Royce.

A Snapshot Of Living In Trebetherick - Part 1

These PDFs were compiled by Brian and Jenny Oaten, as published in issues 237, 238, 239 of The Link magazine.

Part 2

Part 3

1906 - The Haven was the first non-farming house to be constructed in Trebetherick.

• In 1906, The Haven was the first house constructed in Trebetherick, which was not directly linked to agriculture. Trebetherick was then primarily open farmland with only farm houses, farm workers and labourers cottages, smallholdings and barns. Following The Haven construction, other houses, guest houses, and eventually hotels were built in the area. The entrance pillars to The Haven, which now appear to be at an odd angle to the road, were built in 1906 and were perfectly parallel to the old road. In the 1960s, the Daymer Bay Garage was demolished allowing the old road to be improved, moved westward and straightened, the old road being left as the current layby.

• Mabyn Oaten on the balcony of The Haven before the bay windows were converted into a mahogany sunroom extension in the late 1950s

• The Haven, Trebetherick, as it was when first bought by Lewis and Mabyn Oaten in the mid 1950s with first floor west-facing balcony. Mabyn did bed and breakfasts while Lewis, a carpenter, ran a small carpentry/joinery and general repairs business.

• This postcard was taken sometime 1930-1950. Note The Haven top right and the car on the beach.

Sand Cart and Pony Pulling Up Daymer Lane

• 1920-40s - Sand Carter With Pony Nearing Lower Farm and the PO at The Top Of Daymer Lane

1925 TREBETHERICK DUCK POND

Collage of duck pond 1925 and today 2021

Just above the Daymer Bay Garage was one of the village duck ponds ​which served as a watering spot for working horses, was drained in the 1930s after mains water was installed, making way for the ​new and larger Trebetherick telephone exchange. On the right is the gate into Ham Field, so called as it was the triangular shape of a ham.

BEFORE THE ROAD WAS WIDENED IN 1960s

• Looking uphill, at The Haven entrance on the right, Old Farm is the house roof you can just about see in the centre, with the old Daymer Garage building to the left, demolished for the road straightening and widening improvements in late 1960s.

DAYMER BAY GARAGE and WORKSHOPS

• The Daymer Bay Garage, was located at the junction of Worthy Hill and Daymer Lane, was operated by Norman Cleave, a motor car enthusiast and the father of Leadville Cleave and grandfather of Jon Cleave, from Port Isaac. The garage included workshops, garages, and a petrol pump. Norman also managed the Clock Garage at Rock. Below the garage on Daymer Lane, Worthy House ​was built ​and served as both a Post Office and a telephone exchange, playing a central role in the village’s communication.

View of the junction between Daymer Lane and Worthy Hill The gable end of the set of 4 garages

This was looking up, at the top of Worthy Hill, Daymer Bay Garage, might have been built before WW2 but it was derelict in 1956

At the top of Worthy hill, looking down, Daymer Bay Garage is on the right and The Haven entrance is on the left

Almost at the top of Worthy Hill, The Haven entrance is on the left with gate posts parallel with the original old road. Daymer Bay Garage is now gone.

1963 Aerial View of The Haven - showing Lewis Oaten’s newly constructed mahogany sunlounge

sheltered from north and east by mature Cornish elm trees - all died of the Dutch elm disease in 1970/80s.

Looking up Daymer Lane almost at the top, this was a set 4 garages with the post office on the right

1970s BILL TUCKER’S COACH TRIPS

Bill Tucker from Trewornan Farm, was a horse and coaching enthusiast and he used to conduct pleasure trips that passed by The Haven, sounding a long, shining copper coaching horn at corners and other suitable points along the route.

• Higher Trebetherick - Looking North - Before Road Widening 1960s

Higher Farm on Left - Shop on Right

New Telphone Exchange on right

• Worthy Hill

Looking North - Floraldene On Right

• Worthy Hill - Looking South - Floraldene on Left.

Before the building of Tide Race, Breafield and public footpath. Note the council wintertime piles of sand to grit the hill

• 1979 Daymer Beach, when it was a lovely sandy beach.

• The Haven itself was rendered ​on the outside using sand and shingle containing small shells, which were brought up from the beach by pony and cart. ​With one of these loads, the Trebetherick Point defense cannon was brought up for safe​keeping. It was mounted in the front garden until 1999, when Naval historian ​Tim Parr, who was researching Henrician Cannons, visited. He was instrumental in arranging for its preservation and subsequent display at Prideaux Place, where its sister cannon from the Padstow side is also located.

THE TREBETHERICK CANNON - circa 16th centuary

This 3 pounder gun was mounted in the Trebetherick Battery at Greenaway, 20 feet above the High Water Mark, on the East side of the Camel Estuary, as part of the defences of Padstow. It is very badly corroded as it was exposed to salt spray in every gale in the prevailing South West wind for at least 200 years.​ It is thought that the guns on their wheeled carriage may have been kept in St Enodoc Church to be rolled out and up onto Greenaway when needed.

The gun was brought up from the Battery in the early 1900’s, by a farmer Mr.​ Barton, with his last load of shingle from Greenaway beach​. The gun was set on a concrete plinth ​at the ​south west corner of The Haven in Trebetherick​ in 1906.

​Brian Oaten kindly arranged with Tim Parr naval historian, for the gun​s safekeeping to be displayed ​at Prideaux Place, where it has been conserved and has now been mounted on a ​1600 replica “bed and bracket” carriage​, for display.

While the degree of corrosion makes it difficult to be precise about its date, or its history, based on its proportions and the shape of its trunnions it is considered likely that it was cast in the 16th century, and is therefore another early cast iron gun.

This gun, with the three “Finbankers, which lay in Pentire Farm, formed the Trebetherick battery, which was a part of the defences of the “Safe Haven” which was established in Padstow, in 1780, to shelter British ships being pursued by American Privateers, as described in the panel on the War of American Independence.

Unknown lady with Lewis and Mabyn Oaten in the front garden of The Haven by the Trebetherick Point cannon in the mid 1950s

Additional Photos

• 1941 - Brian Oaten age 2, inside the gate at the first Trelawney, Trebetherick, (built by his father Lewis Oaten and now renamed Pen-y-Bryn) having ridden with Brian’s grandfather John Oaten, from grandparent’s home ‘Kitts Hill’, St Kew.

• Lewis Oaten and his mother Mary (Polly) Oaten outside the house where they both were born, Kitts Hill, St Kew, with his son Brian Oaten.

• The Haven 1960

• The Haven 1965

• 1967 Daymer Beach and Trebetherick Point from Brea

• 1965 Trebetherick from Brea

• On the main road through Trebetherick 1965 looking towards Brea,telephone exchange on left, the bus shelter has now been been moved to the other side of the road