The first Breton crabber, the Aventurier, arrived in the Isles of Scilly in the Spring of 1902. For most of the 20th. century, the Breton fishermen and their colourful boats were regular visitors to Cornwall, anchoring each evening at the Lizard, Newlyn, St. Mary’s, St. Ives, Newquay and Padstow where they made many friends.
They sailed to Cornwall from Camaret, Audierne, le Conquet, Douarnez, Roscoff and Paimpol. This is their story comprehensively illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams.
AUTHOR John McWilliams
John McWilliams was born in 1943 into an old St. Ives family. He became a teacher and this is his second book about St. Ives. As a young man he sailed for several years with the Breton fishermen and still visits them annually.
The story of three generations of the Carew family of Antony in Cornwall covering the period from the Armada to the Restoration. It is a sequel to Mr. Halliday’s “Richard Carew of Antony” and he has been able to add new material to his original study.
The scholar and writer F.E. Halliday was born in 1903 in Yorkshire. He graduated in Economics and then in English at King’s College, Cambridge, following which he held the post of head of English at Cheltenham College.
In 1948, after spending a year in St. Ives before the war, he moved permanently to the town and he soon became a close friend of Bernard Leach, the Nance family and Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, whose pictorial autobiography is dedicated to Frank and Nancie Halliday.
He spent the rest of his life writing; he became a leading authority on Shakespeare and included in his large output on the bard is;
A Shakespeare Companion 1550-1950 (1952) (revised 1964)
Shakespeare : a pictorial biography (1956)
The Life of Shakespeare (1963)
But it is for the republishing and editing of Carew’s long forgotten seminal history of the county, originally written in 1602 that he is best known locally:
Richard Carew of Antony : The Survey of Cornwall (1953)
Halliday had a natural interest in history, conservation and old buildings, and together with Barbara Hepworth and Jim Holman he founded the Friends of St. Ives in the late sixties, which later became The St. Ives Trust.
F.E. Halliday died in 1982. His son Sebastian has donated many of his books and manuscripts to the Archive Study Centre.
John Hobson Matthews’ book, running to 560 pages, was the first printed history of the St. Ives district. In 34 chapters he covered a wide range of historical matters including the Borough Accounts from 1570 to 1776, local families, notabilities, churches, elections, customs, place names, to mention a few of his topics – a mine of information.
When 500 copies went on sale in 1892 in Mr. James Uren White’s shop in Fore Street for £1.12.6d (roughly equivalent to £120 today) they did not make the best-seller lists. Seven years later Mr. White was advertising copies ‘new and uncut’ for sale in his shop for under half price. The book is now a scarce volume, much sought after at home and abroad, and copies which turn up at auctions or in booksellers’ lists sell quickly at high prices.
A St. Ives resident generously gave a copy to the St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre. As the copy needed restoration the opportunity was taken to reproduce the book, as far as technically possible, in its original form as produced by the printers Elliott Stock of 62 Paternoster Road, London, in 1892.
The new edition includes a ‘Foreword’ written specially for this volume by Professor Charles Thomas CBE; also corrections and additions which Matthews intended for inclusion in a second edition, contained in his personal copy of the book and kindly made available by the present owner. Reference is also made to extensive unpublished notes made by R. Morton Nance in his personal copy and transcribed by Cyril Noall, and a biography by Tom Richards, covering Matthews’ family origins, his life and his important work as a Cornish and Welsh historian and Bard of the Gorsedd of Wales, as well as a portrait of Matthews.
AUTHOR J.H. Matthews
Born in Croydon in 1858 John Hobson Matthews can trace his family connection with St. Ives back to 1725 and probably through Norfolk to Pierre le Mathieu a French Huguenot who escaped via the Low Countries in 1545. In 1725 Thomas Mathews followed his employer, Sir John Hobart M.P., from his residence Blickling Hall in Norfolk to Cornwall where the family remained until the authors father, John Thomas, moved to London in 1832. John Hobson Matthews was educated at schools in Blackheath and Cambridge and was received into the Catholic Church in 1877 and showed an early interest in antiquities and church matters. He learned nine languages including Cornish. He was trained as a Solicitor but gave up this career in 1893 on being appointed Archivist for the Cardiff Corporation. Although not born in St. Ives he had a great love for the town and wrote many books about the area and his family connections.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust and St. Ives Library 2003
Born in Devonport in 1855 Alfred Wallis moved to St. Ives with his family in 1894 where after the death of his wife, he became an amateur painter. He was ‘discovered’ by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood in the nineteen-twenties and is thought to have influenced the ‘primitive’ movement.
This book gives his family history with family trees, photographs and a map of Devonport in the late nineteen century. Information has been taken from Wallis’s letters, the books of Sven Berlin and Edwin Mullins, and the tape recordings of those who remembered him made by Dr. Roger Slack. Wallis’s letters hold pride of place and although it would be reasonable to suppose that these would give definitive information this is not necessarily the case.
Amelia and her friend, Barbara served in the Women’s Land Army in WW2. They decide to visit Cornwall to relive those ideal days, but sadly, Barbara dies. Amelia travels to the West Country with Andrew, her chosen grandson, to scatter her friend’s ashes on a Cornish beach.
These include: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sandra Blow, Becky Borman, Kelvin Bowers, Margrit Clegg, Mary Fletcher, Nan Frankel, Patrick Haughton, Sax Impey, Barbara Karn, Martin Lanyon, Ffiona Lewis, Paddy Macmiadhachain, John Miller. Rachel Nicholson, Anton Nickson, Colin Orchard, John Piper, Jacqueline Real, Dooze Storey, Judy Symons, Marion Taylor.
AUTHOR Marion Whybrow
Marion Whybrow was born in London and she moved to St. Ives in 1980. She is married to Terry, a local painter. She has written widely on St. Ives painters, potters and sculptors.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company
First published in 1987 this beautiful guide to the Art Colony in St. Ives has now been reprinted using today’s technology of computers, digital cameras and advanced printing technology. It has been updated and republished in full colour. It takes the reader on a tour o f St. Ives, weaving together the past and the present of a community where for well over 120 years, art and artists have been a continuous and vital element.
Art in St. Ives is not confined to painting, it includes printmaking, photography and world famous sculpture and ceramics. Whilst doing justice to the ‘moderns’ it remembers the many artists who went before – the famous visitors, the innovators, the outstanding marine artists and British Impressionists and all those whose work over the years was such a feature of the Royal Academy shows.
AUTHORS Henry G. Gilbert, Roy Ray and Colin Orchard 2006
PUBLISHED BY Henry G. Gilbert, Roy Ray and Colin Orchard
Although the loss of her son cannot be ignored in Ann Kelly’s work, it is more and more evident that she has coped with Nathan’s death through her writing. Death is present in ‘Because We Have Reached This Place’, but it is death correctly mourned: where the bereaved has found solace in the diversity and warmth of human experience: simple pleasures, the cycle of nature, humour, sex, memories, the security of feeling loved. Just scanning the title-page suggests the variety the reader can look forward to: ‘Reason for Eating Chocolate’, Gramosol’, ‘Men in Waders’, ‘Shark’s Teeth’, ‘Mah-Jong’, ‘Experiment on a Cat’, ‘Cockle Beds’.
Ann Kelley’s poetry adds to our knowledge of what it feels like to live; to be truly alive.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
15 x 21 cm 50 pages Paperback
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
When Kipper was King in St Ives
Fishermans Lodges
St Ives Roast
Matthew Stevens & Son
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
Games handed down through the generations
Christmas lights
Owld Pitt of Porthmeor Beach by Marion Whybrow
Gas Protest
When they raised the Ebenezer
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
Fifty Golden Years at Helleveor
Music
Post Office and Postmen
The Land Girls
Pasties and Saffron Cake
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
St Ives Museum
Methodists
Cornish Curls (carols)
Every Picture Tells a Story
The Hain Family
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
Researched and compiled by Gorsedd Kernow Archives & Publications Committee and
St Ives Archive Study Centre
It can be said that St Ives is the birthplace and source of our Gorsedd. The first Old Cornwall Society was created here in 1920 by Henry Jenner and Robert Morton Nance. In 1928 the Cornish Gorsedd was established with Jenner as the first Grand Bard with Nance as his deputy. Prior to that bards from Cornwall, including a St Ives bard, had been barded at the Welsh Gorsedd.
For the first fifty years of Gorsedd the bards were so well known that our forerunners did not keep records. However many are now forgotten. This work recalls the achievements of fifty-two Cornish Bards (now deceased) with links to St Ives, among them are artists who have contributed to St Ives worldwide fame as a centre for the arts.
Interview written for PENINSULAR VOICE, a monthly magazine published in Penzance from 1983 until 1991. The 80 artists, musicians and writers chosen reflect the enthusiasms of the contributors at the time. Whilst not a comprehensive list, it does give an idea of what was going on in the community of West Cornwall during the nineteen-eighties.
Each entry is accompanied by a portrait by photographer Ashley Peters. The list of interviewees include: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Jack Clemo, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Patrick Hughes, Wizz Jones, Benjamin Luxon, Molly Parkin, Lord St. Levan, D. M. Thomas and Brenda Wootton.
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This is the history of the Edward Hain Memorial Hospital in St. Ives which was opened in 1920. It was written at a time when its future was uncertain due the financial restraints by the Health Authority. Due to the efforts of the community it was saved and is still an important amenity in the town.
Mary Quick is well known for her stories, which have appeared in the local press for many years. A Bard of the Cornish Gorseth, Mary’s bardic name ‘Ow Melder’ caused great amusement when it was announced. It translates as ‘My Honey’; it is both Mary’s mother’s Williams family nickname and commemorates Mary’s bee keeping experiences.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company 2000
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THE STORY OF TATE ST IVES
The history of the campaign for and the building of The Tate Gallery in St. Ives from early plans in 1993 to the day the gallery opened in June 1988.
The story begins at the end of the First World War when the town first had the idea of creating an art gallery to commemorate the men who had died in the war. It continues with various other unsuccessful attempts to provide a permanent home for St. Ives art, and then the impetus that was needed to raise the projects profile follow up the St. Ives exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1985.One of the central chapters covers the history of the land at Porthmeor on which the gallery was built from 1835 when plans were made to provide the town with gas lighting. The book also details the public concerns that were raised during the gallery’s development.
AUTHOR Janet Axten
Janet Axten was born in London and moved to St. Ives from Birmingham in 1985. She obtained a First Class Honours Degree in the arts with the Open University and was the coordinator of the St. Ives Tate Action Group which raised £135,000 towards the building of Tate St. Ives which opened in 1993. Her close involvement with the planning of the Tate St. Ives and her association with all those who played a part in its development enabled here to write in depth about the gallery in its wider geographical and historical context.
Zillah inherits Gorsemoor Cottage in Zennor. She also inherits her grandma and her great grandmother’s diaries. Through reading the diaries she experiences the history of her family in farming, fishing and mining. The artists too brought both fame and shame to Cornish villages. Will Zillah allow the secrets she uncovers to change her life?
Born in London Marion Whybrow moved to St. Ives in1980 with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. This, her second novel, was short listed for the Halsgrove/Western Morning News Peninsular Prize in 2003.
In Homes and Households members of the Penwith local History Group (which is based in Penzance in West Cornwall) have gathered together some of their recent researches to present a fascinating account of a selection of local houses and of the families who have lived in them. Several of these articles have drawn on the memories of people still living, others have been deduced from surviving architectural and written sources. These insights will encourage both those people fortunate enough to live in this beautiful county and those visiting to look around them with renewed and informed interest. For those far away the book will help to enhance their appreciation of how their Cornish ancestors lived.
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THE LEGACY OF BERNARD LEACH
The Leach Pottery is important, not only because it served as a base for Bernard Leach to put his ideas into practice, but also because it involved a team of workers, jointly sharing their passion for clay.
From students, apprentices and professional potters, to clay mixers, kiln firers and pot packers, the Leach Pottery, encouraged, nurtured and trained the art of the potter. Many of the workers came from distant areas of the world to be a part of the unique pottery. It is fitting that the contribution of these men and women be recognized, and this book rightly acknowledges their role in the tremendous endeavour of the Leach Pottery.
AUTHOR Marion Whybrow
Marion Whybrow has written extensively on the St. Ives Art Colony, its painters, potters and sculptors, past and present. She is married to Terry Whybrow
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Its Surroundings, Scenery, Curiosities, Antiquities, History and Traditions.
A facsimile of the fourth edition of John Hobson Matthews Guide to St. Ives originally published by Martin Cock in 1909. The guide was first published in 1884 and it provided a comprehensive survey of St. Ives and surrounding area for the visitors who were beginning to come to the town in growing numbers.
This fascinating little book contains many advertisements of the businesses and holiday accommodation available in the first decade of the twentieth century, as well as a large fold out map of West Cornwall from Hayle to Land’s End. The facsimile also includes a background to the early tourist industry by the historian Tom Richards.
AUTHOR John Hobson Matthews
See A History of St. Ives, Lelant Towednack and Zennor by John Hobson Matthews
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust and St. Ives Library 2004
Janet Harris was born and brought up in St. Ives just after World War II. After living away for many years she, and her husband, have returned to St. Ives where she is working as part of the team of volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Archive Trust Study Centre
Janet Harris was born and brought up in St. Ives just after World War II. After living away for many years she, and her husband, have returned to St. Ives where she is working as part of the team of volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Archive Trust Study Centre
This first publication produced by volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre was produced for the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the second world war. St. Ives men and women served in all corners of the world from 1939-1945 and many did not return.
The town took in refugees and soldiers of many nationalities, especially the American 29th. Division, and many inhabitants witnessed the bombing of the gasworks in the summer of 1942.This book tells the story of a small fishing community during the dark and tragic days of war with moving and humorous reminiscences, photographs and written archives of the time.
AUTHORS Ted Lever and Nigel Jeyes
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched all the names on the War Memorial and the stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War.
Nigel Jeyes was born in Hanwell in London in March 1952. His father was a Londoner but his mother was from St. Ives. He was educated at Little Ealing and Ealing Mead Schools in London and joined London Transport as an Apprentice Electrical Fitter in 1968 and moved to Neasden in 1972 becoming Team Leader to Depot Duty Maintenance Manager. Nigel took early retirement in 2002 and moved to Carbis Bay and joined the St. Ives Archive Centre in 2004. His interests are 20th. Century Military History, Local History, Family History and Railways.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre 2005
To find an unfurnished flat in the 1950’s was almost impossible, but it happened for Lily and Danny. On moving into the house, they find the reality far from ideal. Their ambition is to buy a house. Can they escape the cat, other tenants, the landlady’s scheming and her husband’s murderous intents? A novel by Marion Whybrow.
Marion Whybrow was born in London. She moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1980, with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. She is now writing fiction. This is her third novel.
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Sarah Nichols wrote her first poem whilst holidaying in St. Ives with her husband Peter, usually in September but also in the quieter times in March. It is a journey through St. Ives by day and night in sun and rain. The book contains eighteen poems and each is accompanied by the author’s own thoughts and inspirations.
St. Ives born Peter Murrish was for many years a political agent and a town councilor He became the town’s first Chairman of the St. Ives Chamber of Trade. He moved to the Isles of Scilly in 1985 where he headed an Environmental Trust for the Duchy of Cornwall. On his retirement he moved back to St. Ives and became the Chairman of the St. Ives Trust, in which position he supported the setting up of the Archive Study Centre under the Trust’s wing. Peter Murrish became the expert on all aspects of the second world war, as a result of which he wrote his often amusing reminiscences about being a young boy in St. Ives in those years. He died in 2002.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre 1997
This book provides a fascinating overview of the St. Ives Memory Bay Oral History Project and reflects the continuing vibrant artistic life of St. Ives through excerpts from a selection of the interviews. With a wealth of photographs, many never before published, it is now possible to uncover new perspectives on the relationships between the visual art created in the town, and the families, friendships, traditions, enterprises and institutions of St. Ives.
The complete programme of the festival of music and the arts to celebrate the music of the two Elizabethan ages in the year of the coronation. One of the main sponsers and supporters of this groundbreaking festival was Barbara Hepworth.
The programme contains an introductory note ‘Cornish under Two Queen’s’ by Morton Nance; ‘Artists in St. Ives Fifty Years ago’ by S.J. Lamorna Birch and ‘ St. Ives Parish Church and its Patron Saint’ by Rev. I.S. Jenkins.
David Whitaker was born in Drogheda in Ireland, has been a bookseller in Charing Cross Road London, has lived in Charlbury Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter and for this century ha taken to writing and photography as a means of uncovering and exploring the spirit of place or genius loci of certain favorite locations.
The story of the sudden arrival of hundreds of American troops in St. Ives in 1942, their training and participation in the D-day landings in France. With black and white illustrations.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and, since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust, has researched all the names on the War Memorial and has co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
The Book of St Ives tells the story of the community and its surrounding district with insight, affection and precision. Here are the fighting Fencibles, the rioting tinners, hurling, feasts and ‘crying the neck’, along with the luggers, seine boats and miners – all told in words and over two hundred images.
Cyril Noall was born in St. Ives in 1918. His family goes back centuries, as north coast and St. Ives fisherfolk..His bardic name was Scyrfer Por’ya (Writer of St. Ives) he was awarded the Jenner Medal for literature relating to Cornwall. He died in 1984.
The ’Bower Bird’ is the long- awaited sequel to ‘The Burying Beetle’, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding first novel to a first-time writer of a book for young people. It follows the heat warming story of Gussie, an insightful twelve-year-old girl who has a fatal heart condition but an irrepressible zest for life.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
Twelve year old Gussie has just moved from London into her new ramshackle home on a cliff top above St. Ives. She has an irrepressible zest for life. She also has a life-threatening heart condition.
Gussie fairly fizzles with vitality, radiating fun and enjoyment into everything that comes her way. Her life may be predestined to be short but not short on wonder, glee, the love of things as they really are….. Michael Bayley
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
Black and white photographs taken between 1980 and 2009 celebrating the renowned light at St. Ives on the sea and beaches, and in artists’ studios, fishermen’s lodges, homes, galleries and chapels.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
Mary Quick’s lively and evocative story, lavishly illustrated in colour by Steve Martin traces a visiting family through three generations of seaside holidays in St. Ives. It begins with Christine and Ken’s arrival with their children Katherine and Mark on the little branch line steam train in the 1930s. The story then traces the delights of seaside holidays and how they change over the years.
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post Office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
A practical handbook of simple creative writing practices for teachers, healthcare professionals and new writers. It shows how the writer, Ann Kelly, turns patients into poets.
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet. She is a best selling novelist of women’s erotica. Under the auspices of Poetry Remedy, (a project to get poetry into the healthcare system of Cornwall), she works with stroke rehabilitation and brain injury patients; hospice patients; people with severe degenerative disease; and mental health care clients, helping them to make poems. She has worked with medics, nurses counsellors and carers in England, Australia and Zimbabwe, lecturing and running poetry workshops.
A 4000 YEAR OLD NURSERY RHYME?
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives … This book asks questions about the famous nursery rhyme and finds surprising answers.
It wonders which St. Ives the rhyme refers to – Cornwall or Cambridgeshire? It describes very similar rhymes in German and Italian. It finds the rhyme has connections with an Ancient Egyptian papyrus of 1650BC, and a mathematics text of Early Medieval Italy. In summary, this is the story of the most extraordinary nursery rhyme.
AUTHOR Bridget Flanagan
The author lives in Hemingford Abbots near St. Ives Cambridge. She visited St. Ives in Cornwall as part of her research into the enigmatic text.
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
Born in 1913 in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, he learned his art “surreptitiously” while working as a bank clerk. He moved to St. Ives in 1960 and became part of the thriving artistic community.
Also included is a lengthy and entertaining account, by O’Malley himself, of his early years growing up In County Kilkenny. The book is illustrated throughout and contains photographs and artwork never previously published, including 16 in colour.
AUTHOR David Whittaker
An Irishman born and bred in Drogheda, near the mouth of the river Boyne, he is a poet, photographer, publisher and bookdealer. He contributed Tony O’Malley’s obituary for The Guardian. He lives and works in Charlbury, Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter.
‘TRIP’, if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked inside the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works, was the event of the year. When, in 1894, a party of some 500 made up of men from the Mechanics Institution and their families took the company’s gratis train to Oxford, they set a tradition that lasted for over 120 years.
Trip enabled the ‘trippers’ to travel initially allover the GWR system, then up and down the country and, in later times, even across the Channel to Europe. It was a masterpiece of management and in its heyday numbers up to 26.000 would leave Swindon in a matter of hours. Over the years Trip become part of the fabric of life for Swindon Works’ railway families and they invested it with their individual rituals and traditions. It was talked about with hushed breath and hopeful longing for many months before the event and is now remembered long years after with great fondness. One of the places visited regularly was the picturesque fishing village of St. Ives in Cornwall.
AUTHOR Rosa Matheson
Rosa Matheson is a railway historian. She has taught railway history and women’s studies and has worked as a freelance journalist. She lives near Swindon.
In the years leading up to the sixtieth anniversary of the ending of the Second World War it was realised that many of the stories needed to be recorded more fully. Many veterans were willing to share their memories and these are the fascinating stories they had to share.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive has researched all the names on the War Memorial and the stay of the US 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War.
This is the first part of the series “Footnotes on a Landscape: Engagements with Art and Place in West Penwith”. The series is a personal exploration of the genius loci or spirit of place via poems, essays and photographs, with reference to many of the post-war artists and writers, place-names, old maps, folklore, archaeology, geology, mining and the interaction of the varied landscape with the elements and the pervasive sea and light.
John Glasson Thomas was born in St. Ives on 26th October 1889. A devout Christian he joined the local Methodist Church Guild where he met Miss Gertrude Brooks. After he enlisted in May 1915 as a member of the 1/7th. Company, Cornwall Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to Pendennis Castle in Falmouth he began a correspondence with Miss Brooks that was to last until his untimely death in France in August 1917.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has produced several publications on wartime St. Ives.
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1.Copper Kettle to Court Cocking 1933
10.St Ives pre 1940
11.James Stevens No 10 being manually hauled. 1930
12.Back Road East
13.Pilchard Harvest off Porthminster
14.Fore Street 1940
15.Boys sailing in the harbour on washtrays. 1905
16.Seine boats at Porthminster, with Primrose Valley cottages in the foreground.
17.Entrance to Pudding Bag Lane. 1919. TO331
18.Shell fish stowpot and Iron bouy. 1905 DE40
19.Fishermen and their wives and children. 1920
2.Porthgwidden Beach showing holiday camping tents on the Island. 1940’s 1950,s
20.The Market Place. Showing 15TH C George and Dragon. 1883-1887
3.Parish Church from Pedn Olva. Taken before building of Pedn Olva Walk. 1930,s
4.Harbour. Crab pot made of wire, unique to St Ives. 1930,s
5.The Snap Shop. Ben Phillips with his dog Carlo. 1950,s
6.The crew of the Nazarene drying nets on the Island. 1940,s/1950,s
7.Landing fish at the Sloop. 1940,s/1950,s
8.Stern of “Bluebell” and “Marnie” 1950,s
9.Harbour. Pre 1915
A CENTURY OF FRIENDSHIP – BRETON FISHERMEN IN CORNWALL AND SCILLY
The first Breton crabber, the Aventurier, arrived in the Isles of Scilly in the Spring of 1902. For most of the 20th. century, the Breton fishermen and their colourful boats were regular visitors to Cornwall, anchoring each evening at the Lizard, Newlyn, St. Mary’s, St. Ives, Newquay and Padstow where they made many friends.
They sailed to Cornwall from Camaret, Audierne, le Conquet, Douarnez, Roscoff and Paimpol. This is their story comprehensively illustrated with black and white photographs and diagrams.
AUTHOR John McWilliams
John McWilliams was born in 1943 into an old St. Ives family. He became a teacher and this is his second book about St. Ives. As a young man he sailed for several years with the Breton fishermen and still visits them annually.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Trust 2007
17 x 24 cm 89 pages Paperback.
A CORNISH CHRONICLE
The story of three generations of the Carew family of Antony in Cornwall covering the period from the Armada to the Restoration. It is a sequel to Mr. Halliday’s “Richard Carew of Antony” and he has been able to add new material to his original study.
AUTHOR F.E.Halliday
The scholar and writer F.E. Halliday was born in 1903 in Yorkshire. He graduated in Economics and then in English at King’s College, Cambridge, following which he held the post of head of English at Cheltenham College.
In 1948, after spending a year in St. Ives before the war, he moved permanently to the town and he soon became a close friend of Bernard Leach, the Nance family and Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, whose pictorial autobiography is dedicated to Frank and Nancie Halliday.
He spent the rest of his life writing; he became a leading authority on Shakespeare and included in his large output on the bard is;
A Shakespeare Companion 1550-1950 (1952) (revised 1964)
Shakespeare : a pictorial biography (1956)
The Life of Shakespeare (1963)
But it is for the republishing and editing of Carew’s long forgotten seminal history of the county, originally written in 1602 that he is best known locally:
Richard Carew of Antony : The Survey of Cornwall (1953)
Halliday had a natural interest in history, conservation and old buildings, and together with Barbara Hepworth and Jim Holman he founded the Friends of St. Ives in the late sixties, which later became The St. Ives Trust.
F.E. Halliday died in 1982. His son Sebastian has donated many of his books and manuscripts to the Archive Study Centre.
PUBLISHED BY David and Charles 1967
14mm. x 22mm. 171 pages Hardback
A HISTORY OF SAINT IVES, LELANT, TOWEDNACK and ZENNOR
John Hobson Matthews’ book, running to 560 pages, was the first printed history of the St. Ives district. In 34 chapters he covered a wide range of historical matters including the Borough Accounts from 1570 to 1776, local families, notabilities, churches, elections, customs, place names, to mention a few of his topics – a mine of information.
When 500 copies went on sale in 1892 in Mr. James Uren White’s shop in Fore Street for £1.12.6d (roughly equivalent to £120 today) they did not make the best-seller lists. Seven years later Mr. White was advertising copies ‘new and uncut’ for sale in his shop for under half price. The book is now a scarce volume, much sought after at home and abroad, and copies which turn up at auctions or in booksellers’ lists sell quickly at high prices.
A St. Ives resident generously gave a copy to the St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre. As the copy needed restoration the opportunity was taken to reproduce the book, as far as technically possible, in its original form as produced by the printers Elliott Stock of 62 Paternoster Road, London, in 1892.
The new edition includes a ‘Foreword’ written specially for this volume by Professor Charles Thomas CBE; also corrections and additions which Matthews intended for inclusion in a second edition, contained in his personal copy of the book and kindly made available by the present owner. Reference is also made to extensive unpublished notes made by R. Morton Nance in his personal copy and transcribed by Cyril Noall, and a biography by Tom Richards, covering Matthews’ family origins, his life and his important work as a Cornish and Welsh historian and Bard of the Gorsedd of Wales, as well as a portrait of Matthews.
AUTHOR J.H. Matthews
Born in Croydon in 1858 John Hobson Matthews can trace his family connection with St. Ives back to 1725 and probably through Norfolk to Pierre le Mathieu a French Huguenot who escaped via the Low Countries in 1545. In 1725 Thomas Mathews followed his employer, Sir John Hobart M.P., from his residence Blickling Hall in Norfolk to Cornwall where the family remained until the authors father, John Thomas, moved to London in 1832. John Hobson Matthews was educated at schools in Blackheath and Cambridge and was received into the Catholic Church in 1877 and showed an early interest in antiquities and church matters. He learned nine languages including Cornish. He was trained as a Solicitor but gave up this career in 1893 on being appointed Archivist for the Cardiff Corporation. Although not born in St. Ives he had a great love for the town and wrote many books about the area and his family connections.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust and St. Ives Library 2003
16 x 25 cm 575 pages Hardback
ALFRED WALLIS AND HIS FAMILY
Born in Devonport in 1855 Alfred Wallis moved to St. Ives with his family in 1894 where after the death of his wife, he became an amateur painter. He was ‘discovered’ by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood in the nineteen-twenties and is thought to have influenced the ‘primitive’ movement.
This book gives his family history with family trees, photographs and a map of Devonport in the late nineteen century. Information has been taken from Wallis’s letters, the books of Sven Berlin and Edwin Mullins, and the tape recordings of those who remembered him made by Dr. Roger Slack. Wallis’s letters hold pride of place and although it would be reasonable to suppose that these would give definitive information this is not necessarily the case.
AUTHOR Peter Barnes-
PUBLISHED BY Peter Barnes 1997
22 x 30 cm 25 pages Combed and Bound A4
AMELIA
Amelia and her friend, Barbara served in the Women’s Land Army in WW2. They decide to visit Cornwall to relive those ideal days, but sadly, Barbara dies. Amelia travels to the West Country with Andrew, her chosen grandson, to scatter her friend’s ashes on a Cornish beach.
AUTHOR: Marion Whybrow
PUBLISHED BY: Beach Books 2010
Amelia remembers the American troops who lightened their lives. She marries Marco, an Italian prisoner of war but all is not perfect.
Years later, Amelia discovers a lost letter which makes her rethink her life. Will it be Italy, or England for her new found family?
13 x 20 cm 243 pages Paperback
ANOTHER VIEW. ART IN ST. IVES
A collection of potted biographies, with an illustration, of the middle generation of artists who started to arrive in St. Ives from the late 1930s.
These include: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sandra Blow, Becky Borman, Kelvin Bowers, Margrit Clegg, Mary Fletcher, Nan Frankel, Patrick Haughton, Sax Impey, Barbara Karn, Martin Lanyon, Ffiona Lewis, Paddy Macmiadhachain, John Miller. Rachel Nicholson, Anton Nickson, Colin Orchard, John Piper, Jacqueline Real, Dooze Storey, Judy Symons, Marion Taylor.
AUTHOR Marion Whybrow
Marion Whybrow was born in London and she moved to St. Ives in 1980. She is married to Terry, a local painter. She has written widely on St. Ives painters, potters and sculptors.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company
21 x 16 cm 48 pages Paperback
ART ABOUT ST. IVES
First published in 1987 this beautiful guide to the Art Colony in St. Ives has now been reprinted using today’s technology of computers, digital cameras and advanced printing technology. It has been updated and republished in full colour. It takes the reader on a tour o f St. Ives, weaving together the past and the present of a community where for well over 120 years, art and artists have been a continuous and vital element.
Art in St. Ives is not confined to painting, it includes printmaking, photography and world famous sculpture and ceramics. Whilst doing justice to the ‘moderns’ it remembers the many artists who went before – the famous visitors, the innovators, the outstanding marine artists and British Impressionists and all those whose work over the years was such a feature of the Royal Academy shows.
AUTHORS Henry G. Gilbert, Roy Ray and Colin Orchard 2006
PUBLISHED BY Henry G. Gilbert, Roy Ray and Colin Orchard
21 x 15 cm 98 pages Paperback
BECAUSE WE HAVE REACHED THAT PLACE
Although the loss of her son cannot be ignored in Ann Kelly’s work, it is more and more evident that she has coped with Nathan’s death through her writing. Death is present in ‘Because We Have Reached This Place’, but it is death correctly mourned: where the bereaved has found solace in the diversity and warmth of human experience: simple pleasures, the cycle of nature, humour, sex, memories, the security of feeling loved. Just scanning the title-page suggests the variety the reader can look forward to: ‘Reason for Eating Chocolate’, Gramosol’, ‘Men in Waders’, ‘Shark’s Teeth’, ‘Mah-Jong’, ‘Experiment on a Cat’, ‘Cockle Beds’.
Ann Kelley’s poetry adds to our knowledge of what it feels like to live; to be truly alive.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
15 x 21 cm 50 pages Paperback
CHANGING TIMES IN OLD ST IVES Vol 1
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
When Kipper was King in St Ives
Fishermans Lodges
St Ives Roast
Matthew Stevens & Son
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY Mary Quick
22 x 30 cm 42 pages Combed and Bound A4
CHANGING TIMES IN OLD ST IVES Vol 2
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
Games handed down through the generations
Christmas lights
Owld Pitt of Porthmeor Beach by Marion Whybrow
Gas Protest
When they raised the Ebenezer
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY Mary Quick
22 x 30 cm 43 pages Combed and Bound A4
CHANGING TIMES IN OLD ST IVES Vol 3
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
Fifty Golden Years at Helleveor
Music
Post Office and Postmen
The Land Girls
Pasties and Saffron Cake
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY Mary Quick
22 x 30 cm 39 pages Combed and Bound A4
CHANGING TIMES IN OLD ST IVES Vol 4
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
St Ives Museum
Methodists
Cornish Curls (carols)
Every Picture Tells a Story
The Hain Family
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY Mary Quick
22 x 30 cm 42 pages Combed and Bound A4
CORNISH BARDS OF THE ST IVES AREA
Berdh Kernow a Ranndir Porthia
Researched and compiled by Gorsedd Kernow Archives & Publications Committee and
St Ives Archive Study Centre
It can be said that St Ives is the birthplace and source of our Gorsedd. The first Old Cornwall Society was created here in 1920 by Henry Jenner and Robert Morton Nance. In 1928 the Cornish Gorsedd was established with Jenner as the first Grand Bard with Nance as his deputy. Prior to that bards from Cornwall, including a St Ives bard, had been barded at the Welsh Gorsedd.
For the first fifty years of Gorsedd the bards were so well known that our forerunners did not keep records. However many are now forgotten. This work recalls the achievements of fifty-two Cornish Bards (now deceased) with links to St Ives, among them are artists who have contributed to St Ives worldwide fame as a centre for the arts.
30 x 21 cm 56 pages Illustrated Paperback
EIGHTY FROM THE EIGHTIES
Interview written for PENINSULAR VOICE, a monthly magazine published in Penzance from 1983 until 1991. The 80 artists, musicians and writers chosen reflect the enthusiasms of the contributors at the time. Whilst not a comprehensive list, it does give an idea of what was going on in the community of West Cornwall during the nineteen-eighties.
Each entry is accompanied by a portrait by photographer Ashley Peters. The list of interviewees include: Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Jack Clemo, Terry Frost, Patrick Heron, Patrick Hughes, Wizz Jones, Benjamin Luxon, Molly Parkin, Lord St. Levan, D. M. Thomas and Brenda Wootton.
PUBLISHED BY Rainyday Publications 1993
22 x 22 cm 166 pages Paperback
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FRIENDS FOR LIFE THE STORY OF OUR HOSPITAL
This is the history of the Edward Hain Memorial Hospital in St. Ives which was opened in 1920. It was written at a time when its future was uncertain due the financial restraints by the Health Authority. Due to the efforts of the community it was saved and is still an important amenity in the town.
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick is well known for her stories, which have appeared in the local press for many years. A Bard of the Cornish Gorseth, Mary’s bardic name ‘Ow Melder’ caused great amusement when it was announced. It translates as ‘My Honey’; it is both Mary’s mother’s Williams family nickname and commemorates Mary’s bee keeping experiences.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Printing and Publishing Company 2000
15 x 21 cm 16 pages Paperback
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THE STORY OF TATE ST IVES
The history of the campaign for and the building of The Tate Gallery in St. Ives from early plans in 1993 to the day the gallery opened in June 1988.
The story begins at the end of the First World War when the town first had the idea of creating an art gallery to commemorate the men who had died in the war. It continues with various other unsuccessful attempts to provide a permanent home for St. Ives art, and then the impetus that was needed to raise the projects profile follow up the St. Ives exhibition at the Tate Gallery in London in 1985.One of the central chapters covers the history of the land at Porthmeor on which the gallery was built from 1835 when plans were made to provide the town with gas lighting. The book also details the public concerns that were raised during the gallery’s development.
AUTHOR Janet Axten
Janet Axten was born in London and moved to St. Ives from Birmingham in 1985. She obtained a First Class Honours Degree in the arts with the Open University and was the coordinator of the St. Ives Tate Action Group which raised £135,000 towards the building of Tate St. Ives which opened in 1993. Her close involvement with the planning of the Tate St. Ives and her association with all those who played a part in its development enabled here to write in depth about the gallery in its wider geographical and historical context.
PUBLISHED BY Janet Axten and Colin Orchard. 1995
24 x 30 cm 240 pages Paperback
GORSEMOOR COTTAGE
Zillah inherits Gorsemoor Cottage in Zennor. She also inherits her grandma and her great grandmother’s diaries. Through reading the diaries she experiences the history of her family in farming, fishing and mining. The artists too brought both fame and shame to Cornish villages. Will Zillah allow the secrets she uncovers to change her life?
AUTHOR Marion Whybrow
Born in London Marion Whybrow moved to St. Ives in1980 with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. This, her second novel, was short listed for the Halsgrove/Western Morning News Peninsular Prize in 2003.
PUBLISHED BY Beach Books 2005
13 x 20 cm 322 pages Paperback
HOMES & HOUSEHOLDS IN WEST CORNWALL 1550-1950
In Homes and Households members of the Penwith local History Group (which is based in Penzance in West Cornwall) have gathered together some of their recent researches to present a fascinating account of a selection of local houses and of the families who have lived in them. Several of these articles have drawn on the memories of people still living, others have been deduced from surviving architectural and written sources. These insights will encourage both those people fortunate enough to live in this beautiful county and those visiting to look around them with renewed and informed interest. For those far away the book will help to enhance their appreciation of how their Cornish ancestors lived.
AUTHOR Edited and introduced by Dawn Walker
PUBLISHED BY Penwith Local History Group
21 x 30 cm 120 pages with pull-out map Paperback
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LEACH POTTERY ST. IVES
THE LEGACY OF BERNARD LEACH
The Leach Pottery is important, not only because it served as a base for Bernard Leach to put his ideas into practice, but also because it involved a team of workers, jointly sharing their passion for clay.
From students, apprentices and professional potters, to clay mixers, kiln firers and pot packers, the Leach Pottery, encouraged, nurtured and trained the art of the potter. Many of the workers came from distant areas of the world to be a part of the unique pottery. It is fitting that the contribution of these men and women be recognized, and this book rightly acknowledges their role in the tremendous endeavour of the Leach Pottery.
AUTHOR Marion Whybrow
Marion Whybrow has written extensively on the St. Ives Art Colony, its painters, potters and sculptors, past and present. She is married to Terry Whybrow
PUBLISHED BY Beach Books, St. Ives, Cornwall
19 x 24 cm 239 pages Paperback
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MARITIME ST. IVES
Twenty five photographs of St. Ives taken between the 1920s and the 1970s with information and reminiscences on each.
AUTHOR John McWilliams
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre
21 x 15 cm 48 pages Paperback
MARTIN COCK’S GUIDE TO ST. IVES
Its Surroundings, Scenery, Curiosities, Antiquities, History and Traditions.
A facsimile of the fourth edition of John Hobson Matthews Guide to St. Ives originally published by Martin Cock in 1909. The guide was first published in 1884 and it provided a comprehensive survey of St. Ives and surrounding area for the visitors who were beginning to come to the town in growing numbers.
This fascinating little book contains many advertisements of the businesses and holiday accommodation available in the first decade of the twentieth century, as well as a large fold out map of West Cornwall from Hayle to Land’s End. The facsimile also includes a background to the early tourist industry by the historian Tom Richards.
AUTHOR John Hobson Matthews
See A History of St. Ives, Lelant Towednack and Zennor by John Hobson Matthews
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust and St. Ives Library 2004
14 x 21 cm 40 pages Paperback
MEMORIES OF PEOPLE EVACUATED TO ST IVES DURING WORLD WAR II - Book 2
Interviews with evacuees and others celebrating the 70th anniversary of the evacuation.
COMPILED BY Janet Harris
Janet Harris was born and brought up in St. Ives just after World War II. After living away for many years she, and her husband, have returned to St. Ives where she is working as part of the team of volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Archive Trust Study Centre
30 x 22 cm 85 pages Combed and Bound A4
MEMORIES OF PEOPLE EVACUATED TO ST. IVES DURING WORLD WAR II
Interviews with evacuees and others celebrating the 70th. anniversary of the evacuation
COMPILED BY Janet Harris
Janet Harris was born and brought up in St. Ives just after World War II. After living away for many years she, and her husband, have returned to St. Ives where she is working as part of the team of volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Archive Trust Study Centre
30 x 22 cm 75 pages Combed and Bound A4
MEMORIES OF WARTIME ST. IVES
This first publication produced by volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre was produced for the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the second world war. St. Ives men and women served in all corners of the world from 1939-1945 and many did not return.
The town took in refugees and soldiers of many nationalities, especially the American 29th. Division, and many inhabitants witnessed the bombing of the gasworks in the summer of 1942.This book tells the story of a small fishing community during the dark and tragic days of war with moving and humorous reminiscences, photographs and written archives of the time.
AUTHORS Ted Lever and Nigel Jeyes
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched all the names on the War Memorial and the stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War.
Nigel Jeyes was born in Hanwell in London in March 1952. His father was a Londoner but his mother was from St. Ives. He was educated at Little Ealing and Ealing Mead Schools in London and joined London Transport as an Apprentice Electrical Fitter in 1968 and moved to Neasden in 1972 becoming Team Leader to Depot Duty Maintenance Manager. Nigel took early retirement in 2002 and moved to Carbis Bay and joined the St. Ives Archive Centre in 2004. His interests are 20th. Century Military History, Local History, Family History and Railways.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre 2005
21 x 31 cm 49 pages Combed and Bound A4
NARCISSUS ROAD
To find an unfurnished flat in the 1950’s was almost impossible, but it happened for Lily and Danny. On moving into the house, they find the reality far from ideal. Their ambition is to buy a house. Can they escape the cat, other tenants, the landlady’s scheming and her husband’s murderous intents? A novel by Marion Whybrow.
AUTHOR. Marion Whybrow
Marion Whybrow was born in London. She moved to St. Ives, Cornwall, in 1980, with her husband Terry Whybrow, who is an artist. She began writing for the local paper and these articles turned into books on painters, potters and sculptors. She is now writing fiction. This is her third novel.
PUBLISHED BY. Beach Books. 2007
13 x 20 cm 266 pages Paperback
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POETICAL SKETCHES OF ST. IVES
Sarah Nichols wrote her first poem whilst holidaying in St. Ives with her husband Peter, usually in September but also in the quieter times in March. It is a journey through St. Ives by day and night in sun and rain. The book contains eighteen poems and each is accompanied by the author’s own thoughts and inspirations.
AUTHOR Sarah Nichols
PUBLISHED BY Hollyman Press 2004
15 x 21 cm 46 pages Paperback
PRISONERS OF OUR AGE
Being an account of the Second World War and its aftermath as it affected the small seaside town of St. Ives and a young Cornish boy who lived there.
AUTHOR Peter Murrish
St. Ives born Peter Murrish was for many years a political agent and a town councilor He became the town’s first Chairman of the St. Ives Chamber of Trade. He moved to the Isles of Scilly in 1985 where he headed an Environmental Trust for the Duchy of Cornwall. On his retirement he moved back to St. Ives and became the Chairman of the St. Ives Trust, in which position he supported the setting up of the Archive Study Centre under the Trust’s wing. Peter Murrish became the expert on all aspects of the second world war, as a result of which he wrote his often amusing reminiscences about being a young boy in St. Ives in those years. He died in 2002.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre 1997
21 x 30 cm 58 pages Combed and bound A4
ST IVES: THE ART COLONY AND THE COMMUNITY
This book provides a fascinating overview of the St. Ives Memory Bay Oral History Project and reflects the continuing vibrant artistic life of St. Ives through excerpts from a selection of the interviews. With a wealth of photographs, many never before published, it is now possible to uncover new perspectives on the relationships between the visual art created in the town, and the families, friendships, traditions, enterprises and institutions of St. Ives.
30 x 21cm 104 pages Paperback
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PRINTED BY Francis Antony. Cornwall 2011
ST. IVES FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 6th.-14th. JUNE 1953
The complete programme of the festival of music and the arts to celebrate the music of the two Elizabethan ages in the year of the coronation. One of the main sponsers and supporters of this groundbreaking festival was Barbara Hepworth.
The programme contains an introductory note ‘Cornish under Two Queen’s’ by Morton Nance; ‘Artists in St. Ives Fifty Years ago’ by S.J. Lamorna Birch and ‘ St. Ives Parish Church and its Patron Saint’ by Rev. I.S. Jenkins.
19 x 25 cm 48 pages Paperback
PRINTED BY Lund Humphries and Co. Ltd..
STONELIGHT
A showcase for David Whitaker’s atmospheric photographs, with a complementary selection of essays, lectures, obituaries, haiku and elegies.
AUTHOR David Whitaker
David Whitaker was born in Drogheda in Ireland, has been a bookseller in Charing Cross Road London, has lived in Charlbury Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter and for this century ha taken to writing and photography as a means of uncovering and exploring the spirit of place or genius loci of certain favorite locations.
PUBLISHED BY Wavestone Press
21 x 25cm 126 pages Paperback
THE AMERICAN 29th DIVISION AND ST. IVES
The story of the sudden arrival of hundreds of American troops in St. Ives in 1942, their training and participation in the D-day landings in France. With black and white illustrations.
AUTHOR Edward Lever
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and, since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust, has researched all the names on the War Memorial and has co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Trust Archive Centre
21 x 30 cm 11 pages Combed and Bound A4
THE BOOK OF ST IVES
The Book of St Ives tells the story of the community and its surrounding district with insight, affection and precision. Here are the fighting Fencibles, the rioting tinners, hurling, feasts and ‘crying the neck’, along with the luggers, seine boats and miners – all told in words and over two hundred images.
AUTHOR Cyril Noall
Cyril Noall was born in St. Ives in 1918. His family goes back centuries, as north coast and St. Ives fisherfolk..His bardic name was Scyrfer Por’ya (Writer of St. Ives) he was awarded the Jenner Medal for literature relating to Cornwall. He died in 1984.
PUBLISHED BY Baron Books, Buckingham
21 x 27cm 148 pages Paperback.
THE BOWER BIRD
The ’Bower Bird’ is the long- awaited sequel to ‘The Burying Beetle’, which was shortlisted for the Branford Boase Award for an outstanding first novel to a first-time writer of a book for young people. It follows the heat warming story of Gussie, an insightful twelve-year-old girl who has a fatal heart condition but an irrepressible zest for life.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
14 x 21 cm 196 pages
THE BURYING BEETLE
Twelve year old Gussie has just moved from London into her new ramshackle home on a cliff top above St. Ives. She has an irrepressible zest for life. She also has a life-threatening heart condition.
Gussie fairly fizzles with vitality, radiating fun and enjoyment into everything that comes her way. Her life may be predestined to be short but not short on wonder, glee, the love of things as they really are….. Michael Bayley
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once nearly played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where they have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students, and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Limited
13 x 20 cm 192 pages Paperback
THE LIGHT AT ST IVES
Black and white photographs taken between 1980 and 2009 celebrating the renowned light at St. Ives on the sea and beaches, and in artists’ studios, fishermen’s lodges, homes, galleries and chapels.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet who once played cricket for Cornwall. She has previously published a collection of poems and photographs, a book of photos of St. Ives families and an audio book of cat stories. She lives with her second husband and several cats on the edge of a cliff in Cornwall where have survived a flood, a landslip, a lightening strike and the roof blowing off. She runs courses for aspiring poets at her home, writing courses for medics and medical students and speaks about her poetry therapy work with patients at medical conferences.
PUBLISHED BY Luath Press Ltd.
17 x 21 cm 96 pages Paperback
THE LITTLE BIG BOOK OF SEASIDE HOLIDAYS
Mary Quick’s lively and evocative story, lavishly illustrated in colour by Steve Martin traces a visiting family through three generations of seaside holidays in St. Ives. It begins with Christine and Ken’s arrival with their children Katherine and Mark on the little branch line steam train in the 1930s. The story then traces the delights of seaside holidays and how they change over the years.
AUTHOR Mary Quick illustrated by Steve Martin
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post Office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Trust 2006
29 x 25 cm 30 pages Paperback
THE POETRY REMEDY
A practical handbook of simple creative writing practices for teachers, healthcare professionals and new writers. It shows how the writer, Ann Kelly, turns patients into poets.
AUTHOR Ann Kelly
Ann Kelly is a photographer and prize-winning poet. She is a best selling novelist of women’s erotica. Under the auspices of Poetry Remedy, (a project to get poetry into the healthcare system of Cornwall), she works with stroke rehabilitation and brain injury patients; hospice patients; people with severe degenerative disease; and mental health care clients, helping them to make poems. She has worked with medics, nurses counsellors and carers in England, Australia and Zimbabwe, lecturing and running poetry workshops.
PUBLISHED BY The Hypatia Trust & Patten Press
14 x 21 cm 144 pages Paperback
THE ST. IVES PROBLEM
A 4000 YEAR OLD NURSERY RHYME?
As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives … This book asks questions about the famous nursery rhyme and finds surprising answers.
It wonders which St. Ives the rhyme refers to – Cornwall or Cambridgeshire? It describes very similar rhymes in German and Italian. It finds the rhyme has connections with an Ancient Egyptian papyrus of 1650BC, and a mathematics text of Early Medieval Italy. In summary, this is the story of the most extraordinary nursery rhyme.
AUTHOR Bridget Flanagan
The author lives in Hemingford Abbots near St. Ives Cambridge. She visited St. Ives in Cornwall as part of her research into the enigmatic text.
ILLUSTRATIONS by Bob Burn-Murdoch
PUBLISHED BY Bridget Flanagan 2003
15 x 21 cm 32 pages Paperback
THE ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL GREAT WAR PART TWO
A register of names for the Great War 1914-1918. Part Two K-Z.
(See Part One for A-J)
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Trust Archive Centre
30 x 22 cm Part Two 34 pages Combed & Bound A4
THE ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL WORLD WAR 2 PART ONE
A register of names for Word War 2 1939-1945 Part One A-J
(See Part Two for K-Z)
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Trust Archive Centre
30 x 22 cm Part One 29 pages Combed & Bound A4
THE ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL WORLD WAR 2 PART TWO
A register of names for Word War 2 1939-1945 Part Two K-Z
(See Part One for A-J)
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Trust Archive Centre
30 x 22 cm Part One 29 pages Combed & Bound A4
THE ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL GREAT WAR PART ONE
A register of names for the Great War 1914-1918. Part One A-J
(See Part Two for K-Z)
The St. Ives War Memorial contains the names of ninety-three men who lost their lives in the Great War 1914-1918. A further one hundred and nine names were added after the Second World War 1935-1945. Nearby there is a memorial to a soldier who lost his life in Korea.
AUTHOR Ted Lever.
Ted Lever was born in Holloway, London, and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. He is interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History. Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has researched the Stay of the U.S. 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War and co-authored Memories of Wartime St. Ives with Nigel Jeyes.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Trust Archive Centre
30 x 22 cm Part One 22 pages Combed & Bound A4
TONY O’MALLEY: AN IRISH ARTIST IN CORNWALL
Born in 1913 in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, he learned his art “surreptitiously” while working as a bank clerk. He moved to St. Ives in 1960 and became part of the thriving artistic community.
Also included is a lengthy and entertaining account, by O’Malley himself, of his early years growing up In County Kilkenny. The book is illustrated throughout and contains photographs and artwork never previously published, including 16 in colour.
AUTHOR David Whittaker
An Irishman born and bred in Drogheda, near the mouth of the river Boyne, he is a poet, photographer, publisher and bookdealer. He contributed Tony O’Malley’s obituary for The Guardian. He lives and works in Charlbury, Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter.
PUBLISHED BY Wavestone Press 2005
17 x 23 cm 95 pages Paperback
TRIP. THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY OF GWR’S SWINDON WORKS
‘TRIP’, if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked inside the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works, was the event of the year. When, in 1894, a party of some 500 made up of men from the Mechanics Institution and their families took the company’s gratis train to Oxford, they set a tradition that lasted for over 120 years.
Trip enabled the ‘trippers’ to travel initially allover the GWR system, then up and down the country and, in later times, even across the Channel to Europe. It was a masterpiece of management and in its heyday numbers up to 26.000 would leave Swindon in a matter of hours. Over the years Trip become part of the fabric of life for Swindon Works’ railway families and they invested it with their individual rituals and traditions. It was talked about with hushed breath and hopeful longing for many months before the event and is now remembered long years after with great fondness. One of the places visited regularly was the picturesque fishing village of St. Ives in Cornwall.
AUTHOR Rosa Matheson
Rosa Matheson is a railway historian. She has taught railway history and women’s studies and has worked as a freelance journalist. She lives near Swindon.
17 x 24 cm 127 pages Paperback
VETERANS REMEMBER
In the years leading up to the sixtieth anniversary of the ending of the Second World War it was realised that many of the stories needed to be recorded more fully. Many veterans were willing to share their memories and these are the fascinating stories they had to share.
AUTHOR Edward Lever
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School, Hayle. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive has researched all the names on the War Memorial and the stay of the US 29th. Division in St. Ives during the Second World War.
PUBLISHED BY St. Ives Archive 2011
22 x 30 cm 123 pages Combed and Bound A4
YESTERDAY’S TOWN: ST. IVES
A record recalling the town as it used to be in words and pictures.
AUTHOR Cyril Noall
PUBLISHED BY Baron Books of Buckingham 1979, reprinted 2002
20 x 26 cm 127 pages Hardback
ZAWN LENS
This is the first part of the series “Footnotes on a Landscape: Engagements with Art and Place in West Penwith”. The series is a personal exploration of the genius loci or spirit of place via poems, essays and photographs, with reference to many of the post-war artists and writers, place-names, old maps, folklore, archaeology, geology, mining and the interaction of the varied landscape with the elements and the pervasive sea and light.
AUTHOR David Whittaker
An Irishman born and bred in Drogheda, near the mouth of the river Boyne. He is a poet, photographer, publisher and bookdealer.
PUBLISHED BY Wavestone Press 2003
17 x 24 cm 64 pages Paperback
‘DEAR MISS BROOKS’ THE GREAT WAR LETTERS OF JOHN GLASSON THOMAS
John Glasson Thomas was born in St. Ives on 26th October 1889. A devout Christian he joined the local Methodist Church Guild where he met Miss Gertrude Brooks. After he enlisted in May 1915 as a member of the 1/7th. Company, Cornwall Royal Garrison Artillery and was posted to Pendennis Castle in Falmouth he began a correspondence with Miss Brooks that was to last until his untimely death in France in August 1917.
AUTHOR Edward Lever
Ted Lever was born in Holloway in London and taught in two primary schools in Harrow before coming to Cornwall in 1961. He taught in the county for twenty-nine years becoming Head Teacher at St. Erth and Bodriggy School. Interested in all aspects of history, especially Military History, Ted has researched the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in both wars and since joining the St. Ives Archive Trust has produced several publications on wartime St. Ives.
PUBLISHED BY The St. Ives Archive Centre
21 x 30 cm 30 pages Combed and Bound A4