Above photos taken by Tony Wells, 23 May 2011.

From an email received 17 Jan 2011.

This property was owned by my grandparents (and I think built by them) in the 1930s. Their names were Percy & Rosa Philpott and there was a little transport cafe on the right hand side which they ran for many years.

They also ran the caravan park on the opposite side of the road. It was then called High Hope.

They lived there until their deaths on the same day, 20 December 1966, in separate hospitals, and their ashes were scattered over the cliff top.

Patricia Bailey (nee Philpott)

From an email received, 28 September 2024.

My parents had leased this at one time from John Crudgington who owned the caravan park across the road. We had the cafe on the side of patio which my dad built & still is standing. We had the cafe for 4 to 5 years till 1979.  We left in 1979 and moved to Australia in 1980.

John the owner redesigned the layout to make a little inn. We were highly regarded for our for fish & chips. Summer was busy with foreigners from across the pond and campers up the road. In winter we accommodated passing through truck drivers. Mum, dad and me, 2 sisters and 2 brothers ran the "White Cliffs cafe" as we called it.

My sister on a visit to England having seen that it had suffered a fire asked John if he knew how it occurred and he said an electric wire upstairs had somehow over-heated while he was doing renovations.

Regards,

Lyn.