Here’s an attractive new addition to our library of historic images. A watercolour painting captures the scene at Penpole Point in the middle of the 19^th Century. This was at the peak of its appeal, when people came from miles around to enjoy the sunset from the Point, and before cheap rail travel rendered such simple pleasures less enduring.
 
The work was painted by Thomas Remnant Charleton (1756-1849) in his final decade, and long after his retirement from military service to Bath. This image joins many others that recorded the natural wonder of Penpole Point at this time, before the views were lost to industry and overgrowth.