TRADES TO DO WITH FISHING Due to unforeseen events we have moved the Newlyn Archive Open Day from Saturday 21/3/2020 to Saturday 28/3/2020. The Open Day is at Trinity Centre from 9.30-3.00. We do hope you can attend. The Exhibition about ‘Trades to do with Fishing’ will include a historical look at the trades that […]
It is always rewarding when people visit the Archive in order to carry out research. Monday morning was a particularly busy day and here we see Rebecca Weeks with her son researching her family history. As time goes by, we have more and more documents and photos relating to different Newlyn families. Hayley Britten, with […]
65 people attended the Open Day at the Centre in Newlyn. The promise of poor weather didn’t help attendance and there was some competition from the Lifeboat station who were holding their official opening. Despite that some people came to both the Lifeboat Station and the Open Day; we were given a programme of the […]
Newlyn is mainly associated with fishing. The regattas of old Newlyn were certainly important events for the fishermen. It is said that Newlyn Fishermen were the finest yachtsmen in the world, ordained by circumstances to be fishermen, but always racing in their luggers to and from the fishing grounds. These old Newlyn Regattas were tremendous […]
The exhibition highlighted three main journeys. The display of the voyage of The Spirit of Mystery included a hair raising first person account by Pete Goss who revived the original journey to Australia in 1854 in a restored version of The Spirit of Mystery in 2008. A fine model of The Rosebud and an account […]
The next Open Day is at the Trinity Centre, Chywoone Hill on September 21, 2019 Great voyages that started at Newlyn include the voyage of John Pollard of Newlyn who kept a Journal from 1794-1795, when his voyage aboard The Lark was rudely interrupted by the 44 gun Permoney and he was taken prisoner by […]