Hooe, Plymouth

Hooe was built over the site of the estate of Radford, the family seat of the Harris family. Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales from 1870 to 1872 describes Hooe as follows:

Hooe has a park, small garage, a newsagent, a small grocery store, an Indian takeaway, a Chinese takeaway, a pasty shop and a post office. There is also Hooe Primary School in Lower Hooe, and two pubs, The Royal Oak and The Victoria. There are five quarries situated around Hooe Lake, all disused and in disrepair. The largest, Hooe Lake Quarry, was used to store fuel by the Ministry of Defence until the 1970s after its useful life as a limestone quarry. Adjacent to the lake at the river end of the estuary are the remains of the old Turnchapel Branch swing bridge used for trains to access Turnchapel from the Oreston side from 1897. It was closed in the 20th century shortly after the Second…