The Gulls Holiday Home, Looe

30/11/2024

What a wonderful time to visit Looe 🎄🎉🎅

24/11/2024

Christmas shopping info in Looe - come on down!

From 4pm - 8pm in the heart of Looe

01/11/2024

Christmas shopping in Looe, stress- free and lots of fun - book your trip! 😃 🎅 🎄

06/10/2024

Filming in Looe from Monday 😄

Filming will recommence in Looe & surrounds on Monday for season 3 of Beyond Paradise.

www.welcometoshiptonabbott.com

05/10/2024

Celebrating 20 wonderful years at The Gulls today. We’ve morphed from a 10 bed B&B to a beautiful 4 bedroomed holiday home and we live next door! Thank you to all our guests, past and present for being a part of our amazing journey. Never a dull day at the Gulls 😄

05/10/2024

Jingle you or bells over the Quayside Centre, West Looe on the 30th November and the 14th December for the 2024 Christmas Markets.

28/09/2024

Christmas markets!! 😃 🎄

Quayside Centre, West Looe are hosting two Christmas markets on November 30th & December 14th (10am-3pm).

A perfect spot to pickup some hand made Christmas gifts, cards & edible treats.

30/08/2024

Only yummy! 😋

The Perfect Start To The Day A The Beach Shack! 😍🍳☕️

30/08/2024

We certainly have a beautiful beach! ❤️

03/06/2024

What a stunning view to wake up to in Beautiful Cornwall - no more words needed 😄 🏖️

01/06/2024

Oooh a nice short drive out to breakfast, easy parking too - what’s not to like! We’ll see you there 😋

So we have some pretty exciting news! 🥳

Starting from 3rd June, we'll be starting to serve breakfast - from Monday - Friday it'll be served from 7.30am - 11am, and it'll be from 8am - 11am on Saturdays and Sundays.

Pop along for a bit of morning grub and a coffee, we'd love to see you! ☕️

24/05/2024

Yum yum yum!!

21/05/2024

The Gulls - simply the best views in an area of outstanding beauty ❤️

19/05/2024

This looks yummy! 😋

18/05/2024

We’ve just waved goodbye to this year’s students from Indiana University. You were great to host, again all really interesting and engaging people. It’s a pleasure to host you in our beautiful County.

So very pleased that Matt fulfilled a long-lived dream to visit Dartmoor Zoo across the border in Devon - the film of their story ‘We Bought a Zoo’ inspired Matt to become a volunteer at his local zoo in the US - fantastic!

Top tip if you’re travelling - double-check you have your train ticket before starting your long journey - it was the morning of long goodbyes and a quick dash to Liskeard Station 🤣 if you know, you know!

Until next time lovely people! Enjoy the next chapter of your adventure

01/05/2024

An amazing story - shop local ❤️

🕺 NEW OWNERS 🕺

Now I have your attention, I would love 2 minutes of your time 😁

Over the last 18 months, I have had so many conversations with customers that have no idea who owned the shop, prior to Angela & Jacquie selling in 2018, so I’m once again going to introduce myself, and I’d appreciate you all sharing it far and wide 😀

My name is Sam Chapman, I am now 30 years old, and together with my wife Laura, we own Pengelly’s Fishmonger’s, after we took over in August 2022.

Some of you may recognise me from Nippers Shellfish, which is where it all started for me.

I have been working in the Fishing Industry for 12 years now, and no, I never thought I would end up here! I started on the quay at 18, washing dirty boxes, which wasn’t a pleasant job at times, but I loved it. Soon after I was offered the chance to work for my uncles brother Richard, who owned a Fish Merchants supplying other fish shops, restaurants and delis, Richard took me under his wing and showed me everything there was to know in the trade, and within 12 months I found myself being handed the reins while Richard was on holiday.

Richard also owned Nippers Shellfish, a wholesale producer of Crab Meat, in 2018 I was offered the chance to purchase the business, which I grabbed with both hands. We quickly expanded the business and were picking 10-12 TONS of Cornish Crab per week, by hand! We sold the finest Crab Meat, as well as some of Cornwalls most stunning Fish, which we are so lucky to have on our doorstep.

LOCKDOWN… This completely changed my business, we went from supplying 50 restaurants, to overnight being left with none! With nowhere to turn we started selling ‘Mystery Fish Boxes’ which we delivered to peoples homes, we sold thousands of these, and we never looked back. We were lucky enough to be featured in the BBC2 show Cornwall: This Fishing Life, which gave everyone a perfect insight into the real life Fishing Industry. My love for retail began here!

Living up to the Pengellys’s name was always going to be a huge challenge, the shop went though 2 sets of owners before reaching us, which unfortunately had its own challenges.

We are a local family with a huge connection to the fishing industry, my 2 cousins and uncle are Fisherman in Looe, while another 2 cousins and uncle are Net Riggers in Looe, making the trawls for the boats. If you go back far enough, we’re even related to the Pengelly’s! Looe & its Fishing Heritage are extremely important to me, which is why I could not possibly have turned down the opportunity to purchase such a business as Pengelly’s.

In the 18 months we have owned the shop, we have expanded the online side of the business, giving our customers the chance to have fish delivered within just 24 hours of being caught, Nationwide! We have TRIPLED the size of the shop, expanding into the room it all started in for me… The box washing room! We have added outdoor seating for up to 30 people, and our newest addition to the business is The Lobster Shack, supplying ready to eat Seafood Dishes to takeaway or sit on the benches.

Customers Old & New we’d love you to come down and see what we’re up to, Fish has become an expensive commodity, and the days of a 10p Mackerel are gone, but we always have something on offer, and Fish to suit every budget. One thing we can promise is the same Quality Day Boat Fish which you all came to expect from Angela & Jacquie 🤩

We are 1 of only 2 fish businesses left on the quay which are not owned by large companies, which something we are proud to say.

SHOP LOCAL 😁😁

Thanks for reading and sorry if I bored you 🤣

01/05/2024

Happy May Day - and the sun is shining in glorious Looe ☀️
Mum with Rosie and our resident Gulls ❤️