We would be grateful if anyone could provide more recent photographs of the cafe that was here prior to the construction of the first playground  - or the date that the first playground here opened.

 

The Pot House we see on the images on this page is not the original building on the site. That was demolished by a storm in the early 1850s.

In 1838 there was a house on the site owned but not occupied by Henry Calvert. Following the storm, the building must have been replaced - in the 1881 census for Heysham, Bay Cottages (2) are listed as ‘uninhabited’. In the 1901 Trade Directory (W J Cook) of Lancaster District there is a reference to the ‘Pot House Inn’ with the occupier being John Hatch. At some point before a great storm of March 1907 it was converted into two cottages, South Cottage (nearer the village) and Bay Cottage. In the Trade Directory (t T Bulmer) of 1912 (pub.1913) John Hatch is listed as a J P and timber merchant with two addresses at the Harbour (Lancaster?) and South Cottage, Heysham.

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