Here at Newlyn Archive, we are finding new ways to keep our friends involved. Below, we have displayed part of a photo from our digital archive. Can you identify this image? We will publish the whole photo at our next posting. Do let us know what you think! Here are some clues. The photo was […]
Vaccination Court was one of the small courtyard complexes off South Fore Street, Newlyn Town. In local folklore, it was linked with the cholera outbreak of 1832, but it was more likely to have been associated with smallpox. Smallpox was endemic in the eighteenth century. When Newlyn St Peter’s was formed in 1848, its parish […]
Newlyn, like other places in Cornwall suffered during the great cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century; the disease spread quickly because of overcrowding and lack of sanitation. In 1832, the year of a cholera epidemic, the West Briton described Newlyn Town as, ‘A very narrow street between the cottages and the edge of the precipice. […]