Through Dead Man's Window Portreath
by Terri Waters
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Through Dead Man's Window Portreath
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Terri Waters
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Photograph
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The beach, pier and Monkey Hut at Portreath viewed through the windows of Dead Man’s Hut.
On the Cliffside near the harbour entrance at Portreath on the north coast of Cornwall is a white rounded building known locally as Dead Man’s Hut.
The hut's official title is the Lower Pilots Lookout the harbour pilots were stationed here and would signal to ships whether it was safe to enter the harbour. Flags were used during the day and lanterns at night.
The name Dead Man's Hut comes from the days when the lookout would be used as a temporary morgue when bodies were washed ashore or found floating in the sea. This would have been the case in the shipwreck of the Escurial in 1895.
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July 10th, 2022
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