KJ’s Taxis
St. Merryn
07875 637734 & 01841 521982
Millers Taxis
St. Merryn
07873 498 349
Hills Taxis
Harlyn Bay
07813 046358
Padstow Cabs
Padstow
07814 342398
Ocean Taxis
Padstow
07980 001323
Galaxy Taxis
Padstow
01841 540318
A 2 B Taxis
Padstow
01841 533333
Abby Taxis
Padstow
07704 792860
This is the best route to Trearth if travelling west along the A30. Other alternatives (click on map) from Victoria are along narrow lanes.
Nins Tea Rooms
St. Merryn
01841 520691
The Padstow Lifeboat March by Sir Malcolm Arnold (also composed the theme tune for the film Bridge on the River Kwai and lived at Primrose cottage on the road up to Trethias)
THE PADSTOW LIFEBOAT, Op. 94 (1967) was composed for the launching of new lifeboat station in Cornwall, the dedication of which was officiated by the Duke of Kent. It is scored for brass band, a typical choice because of the abundance of brass bands in the Cornwall area. In a note on the score dated February 1967, Arnold wrote. “The Padstow Lifeboat has a long, heroic and distinguished record. The new lifeboat station is near Trevose lighthouse, whose foghorn varies in pitch between Middle C and D. For the sake of musical unity it remains D throughout this march.” The march is a sort of miniature tone poem, with the opening theme reminiscent of a typical jaunty brass band selection, the foghorn droning on periodically in the background (the technique of the intrusive foghorn-like note was used several years later in the first movement of his 8th Symphony). There is a middle section which seems to represent the peril of the lifeboat on duty, and the march also displays an incredible virtuosic cornet obbligato. It was premiered on 10 June 1967 at Royal Festival Hall, London, by the Black Dyke Mills Band under the direction of the composer. Its Cornish premiere came on 19 July 1968 when the Princess Marina came to Cornwall to name the new lifeboat. In a 1984 interview, Arnold stated –01 “Of all my brass and band pieces, it is Padstow Lifeboat which I like best.”