de Wynn Coffee Shop

We went to Falmouth today. When we were there we bumped into Fellow Blipper D


Below is a bit about the Coffee Shop.
One of Falmouth’s original coffee shops, set in a historic listed building. This Coffee House takes its name from a Mr de Wynn who in the 1780’s, built a hotel on the site. The hotel covered the site of the two bow-windowed shops, with wharves at the rear containing stables and a coach house. It became a popular meeting place for Packet Ship Captains awaiting orders to convey mail to all parts of the globe from the second largest Post Office in England. De Wynn followed closely the experiments of William Murdoch of Redruth, the first man in England to light his house with gas in 1784. In 1822 he turned the hotel into two shops, both with the unusually large bow windows which we believe are the largest double bows (with a nine inch bulge) in the country.