News and Events Archive

The painting by Alec Walker shows Jessie Bray and Grace Thomas behind the bar of the Tolcarne Inn. Jessie Bray owned the Tolcarne in the late 1800’s. Her daughter Grace Thomas took over from her until the St Austell Brewery bought the Inn  in the 1960’s.  During the early years,

NAME THE INN, THE LANDLADY AND HER DAUGHTER. This painting was done by Alec Walker c1912 and shows the landlady and her daughter behind the bar of a famous Newlyn Inn. The Inn is very ancient and situated next to the sea.

Michael Hitchens, currently in lockdown in Spain, thought the woman in the doorway of the grocery and vegetable shop looked like his grandmother Hannah Deeble Hitchens. A census lists Hannah as the shop manageress with her husband ‘Jack’ Hitchens as bus owner and driver of what was the original brown

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

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

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

In view of the ongoing crisis involving the Coronavirus (Covid-19) we have postponed the Open Day that was due to take place on Saturday 28th March.We will also be closing the Boathouse from Midday Friday 20th March until further notice.We are sorry for any inconvenience and wish you well during

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

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

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

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