East Quay

East Quay is a quay wall built in the early 19th century for The Cornish Copper Company. It is constructed from granite ashlar, copper slag blocks, and granite dressings. The walls form the sides of a peninsular wharf that projects northwest into the Hayle Estuary and partly enclose two narrow harbours, one to the southwest and one to the northeast. There is a flight of landing steps at the rounded north end. The walls are scalloped in plan, likely to allow boats to lie alongside. The design of the harbours, enclosed by these walls and South Quay, enables accumulated silt to be sluiced out periodically by releasing a large volume of water. This quay was built shortly after Harveys Quay, following a bitter feud between the rival companies of Harvey and Co. and The Cornish Copper Company.