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  • The Beatles filmed part of the Magical Mystery Tour film in Newquay. (Scenes were filmed at the Atlantic Hotel and Towan Beach). Seaside resort and fishing port on the north Atlantic coast of Cornwall, Great Britain. A quay is a wharf or bank where ships and other vessels are loaded. A quay may be constructed parallel or perpendicular to the bank of a waterway. In 1439 the local Burghers applied to Bishop Lacey of Exeter for leave and funds to build a "New quay" - word is commonly used in the UK. link

    January 29, 2009