Open Day April 1 2017

The next Open Day ‘On the Other Side’ is on Saturday April 1 2017 at Trinity Centre, Chywoone Hill, Newlyn from 10.00-3.00. The topic ‘On the Other Side’ conjures a multitude of views of Old Newlyn.

Certainly, the marching policemen in the photo above, were on the other side when the fishermen of Newlyn, Mousehole, Porthleven and St Ives protested about East Coast men fishing on the Sabbath and flooding the Monday market with their fish. A heavy chain was fixed across Newlyn harbour entrance and the baulks were put down at Mousehole. At Newlyn, the men boarded the boats that had come in during the night and threw the fish overboard…

‘We were pious and stern, as our forefathers were,

We honoured the Sabbath day,

But the Eastern men made harvest hen,

And landed the fish on our kay,

And what use to shut with a mackerel glut

When our boats put out to say?’

But ‘The Other Side’ conjures much more than the Newlyn Riots of 1896. In the exhibition, we have tried to find examples of ‘the other side’ from earliest times to more recent times. We deal with the Spanish Invasion, 1595; Mousehole people’s rejection of Newlyn in the cholera epidemic of 1832; a Newlyn Sea Captain walking the plank in 1850; the Welcome Stranger, 1869; fishermen dabbling with contraband in 1883; the sad case of Rolf Jonssen during WW1; Penzance, on the other side of the Rugby field, 1927; the Newlyn Clearances, 1937; Hulks, refugees and evacuees in WW2; the Torrey Canyon disaster, 1967; and Haul for the Shore, 1980.

There will also be films to watch, files and folders to explore, experts to consult, and much else, so do join us.

Download the Poster Poster_5.pdf21/03/2017, 11:45