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HELSTON HISTORY

HELSTON HISTORY

Keeping Alive Memories of Old Helston, Porthleven and the Lizard Peninsula

  • Welcome
    • W.F Ivey’s Books
    • Legal Stuff
    • Helston History Flickr
  • History of Helston
    • A Short History of Helston
    • Helston Town Centre
    • Helston From the Air
    • Helston ‘Odds & Ends’
    • Helston’s Royal Charters
    • Helston Town Trail
  • Flora Day
    • Flora Day History
    • Flora Day: A Very Personal View!
    • Flora Day Dance’s
    • Hal-an-Tow
    • Flora Day: The Morning After!
    • Old Flora Day Photos
    • Flora Day Photos 1883 to 1910
      • Flora Day 1857
      • Flora Day 1883
      • Flora Day 1890
      • Flora Day 1900
      • Flora Day 1901
      • Flora Day 1904
      • Flora Day 1905
      • Flora Day 1907
      • Flora Day 1908
      • Flora Day 1909
      • Flora Day 1910
    • Flora Day Photos 1911 to 1950
      • Flora Day c1914
      • Flora Day c1919
      • Flora Day c1920
      • Flora Day 1924
      • Flora Day 1928
      • Flora Day 1930
      • Flora Day 1932
      • Flora Day 1938
      • Flora Day 1939
      • Flora Day 1941
      • Flora Day 1943
      • Flora Day 1944
      • Flora Day 1945
      • Flora Day 1947
      • Flora Day c1950
    • Flora Day Photos 1951 to 2000
      • Flora Day 1951
      • Flora Day 1954
      • Flora Day 1956
      • Flora Day 1958
      • Flora Day 1957
      • Flora Day 1959
      • Flora Day 1967
      • Flora Day 1973
      • Flora Day 1976
      • Flora Day 1980
      • Flora Day 1981
      • Flora Day 1988
      • Flora Day 1992
  • Helston’s Historical Buidings
    • All Saint’s Church
    • Angel Hotel
    • Blue Anchor Inn
    • Great Office
    • Grylls Monument
    • Guildhall
    • Lismore House
    • St John’s Old Mill
    • Toll Houses
    • Tossell’s Lodging House
    • The Iron Duke
    • The Old Prison
    • The Old Weighbridge
    • St Michael’s Church
    • The Willows
  • Around Old Helston
    • Bowling Green
    • Bowling Green Steps
    • Church Street
    • Coinagehall Street
    • Coronation Park & Lake
    • Cross Street
    • Fairground Swimming Pool
    • Five Wells Lane
    • Helston Savings Bank
    • Jerico Row
    • Lloyds Bank Corner
    • Meneage Street
    • Mission Hall
    • New Cattle Market
    • Old Cattle Market
    • Penrose Estate
    • Ratcliffes Lane
    • Snow Bound Helston 1963
    • Street ‘Kennels’
    • The Old Coal Yard
    • Wendron Street
  • Helston’s Shops & Transport
    • Helston Branch Railway
    • Helston Railway Station 1965
    • Gwinear Road Station 1965
    • Faulls Crossing 1965
    • Nancegollan Station 1965
    • A.P. Gilbert & Sons
    • Angel Hotel Bus
    • Beringer 1909
    • Bullock Lane Smithy
    • Cleaning the Vegetables
    • H.A.L.Rowe Ironmongers
    • James The Butcher
    • Lugg’s Shop
    • Market Hall Stalls
    • Market Place
    • R.E Tyack
    • Star Supply Stores
    • Wearne’s Model ‘T’ Fords
    • W.T. Rogers
  • Old Customs
    • Crying the Neck
    • Dry Tree Menhir
    • Helston Pudding
    • Men-Amber Rock
    • St Peter’s-Tide
    • A Strange Incident!
    • Cornish Dialect Words
  • Porthleven History
    • A Short History of Porthleven
    • Bickford-Smith Institute
    • Boat Building & Net Making
    • Buenos Aires Row
    • Pascoe’s Tea House
    • Porthleven Calamity 1925
    • Porthleven Floods 1993
    • Porthleven Harbour
    • Porthleven Hurricane
    • Porthleven Lifeboats
    • Porthleven Postcard Pictures
    • Porthleven Snow 1985
    • PZ19 Provider
    • St Bartholomew’s Church
    • Porthleven Fishing Boats
  • Around The Loe
    • Loe Bar
    • Loe Pool
    • Helston Harbour
    • River Cober
    • St John’s Flooding
    • Cliff Crosses & Grylls Act
    • Loe Pool Drownings & Odyssey
  • Around The Lizard
    • RNAS Culdrose
    • RAF Predannack
    • Ann’s Pasty Shop
    • Camel’s Head
    • Goonhilly
    • Kynance Cove
    • Kynance Cliff House
    • Lloyds Signal Station
    • Praa Sands Beach
    • St Ives Fire
    • Wheal Vor Mine
    • Wheal Trewavas
  • Local People
    • Henry Trengrouse
    • A.H.Hawke Photographer
    • Bob Fitzsimmons
    • Dr Elliston M.D
    • Helston Air Cadets 1942
    • Helston Cricket Team 1900
    • Helston Home Guard
    • Helston Parade c1907
    • John Pascoe
    • Mock Mayor of St John’s
    • Richard Henry Polglase
    • 29th Division, US Army
    • Sir William Treloar
    • Wg Cdr Guy Gibson RAF VC
    • War Memorials
  • W.F. Ivey’s Forgotten Days
    • Barbers of Helston
    • Changes around Helston
    • The ‘Cuckoo’ Man
    • Cunnack’s Tannery
    • Gas House
    • Helston Water Pumps
    • ‘Little Ship’ Chapel
    • Nansloe Lodge
    • “Send for Harris”
    • Toy’s Iron Foundary
    • White Wash Wall
  • W.F. Ivey’s Shipwrecks
    • HMS Anson
    • Boy Piran
    • Cromdale
    • Energetic
    • Maud
    • Olympe
    • Paris
    • St. Anne
    • Shoreham
    • S.S.Jannakis
    • S.S.Mohegan
    • S.S.Rosabelle
    • Torrey Canyon
    • Tripolitania
    • HMS Warspite

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