In the middle of the road? That is where it was in modern measurements.
Yeah, why not, sculptured traffic calming.
I was actually thinking along the lines of somewhere on the paved area at the bottom of Causwayhead, or where the round seat used to be outside LloydsTSB.
It was just a thought.
Check out the ditty
The following description is taken directly from [Courtney 1878]. This was written by Louise Courtney based on notes made by her father, J. S. Courtney. It must be read in the context of that date.
A short distance up the street was the old portico or balcony of the Star Hotel, under which there were generally to be found two or three people gossiping: this balcony was removed about 1860. There was another at one time in Market-jew Street in front of the “Ship and Castle,” but this had gone before I came to Penzance. These balconies or projecting rooms were very common in Penzance. Besides those named there was one in Chapel Street, the supports of which were knocked down by an ox wain which had become unmanageable, and another was in the Green Market. Of these, says the Rev. C. D. Le Grice,
“Of porticos that used to meet
More than midway in the street,
Forcing horsemen, gigs, and chaises
To whirl through crinkum, crankum mazes,—
Or heavy pent-houses, which frowned
A shadowy horror on the ground,—
No trace remains, but all are bare
And smooth as cheek of lady fair.”
