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Outside the busy summer months, the town remains a centre for shopping and entertainment for local villagers. Annually in late September, the town is the destination of choice for thousands of music lovers and top name performers for the Looe Music Festival, which takes place in temporary venues around the town, harbour and on East Looe beach.
The RNLI withdrew services from Looe in 1930 on the grounds that the motor lifeboats at Fowey and Plymouth could cover the area. [ 4 ] From 1992, the RNLI stationed a lifeboat at Looe for the summer season and three years later the Spirit of the ROAC was housed in a temporary lifeboat house, provided by the East Looe Town Trust.
The building was commissioned to replace the Old Guildhall in High Market Street which dated from around 1450. [2] The new building was designed by John Ford Gould of Barnstaple in the Gothic Revival style, built by Samuel Honey of West Looe in rubble masonry with ashlar stone dressings and was officially opened on 13 September 1877.
After East Looe Borough Council was abolished under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act 1883, [11] the building was transferred to a specially formed entity, the East Looe Town Trust, in 1890. [12]
The town centre is a five-minute walk further alongside the river and buses to Polperro stop on the road near the station. All distances along the line are measured from the point near the seven-span road bridge across the river where the Liskeard and Looe Railway connected with the private sidings on Buller Quay.
The Liskeard and Looe Railway was opened on 27 December 1860 to carry goods traffic; passenger trains started (and Looe station opened) on 11 September 1879. The railway in those days connected with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway at Moorswater, the loop line from Coombe Junction to Liskeard railway station not opening until 25 February 1901 (goods) and 15 May 1901 (passenger).
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The Looe Estuary (grid reference) is an estuary in the southeastern part of Cornwall in south-west England, which leads to the mouth of the River Looe in Looe Bay. The town of Looe sits on the west and east side of the estuary. The estuary is a ria and was formed around 12,000 years ago. [1]