Mainly my hometown of St Ives in Cornwall but there are quite a few travel, history and family videos from around the world. Those from St Ives also appear on my Facebook page 'St Ives Videos'.
The whole of St ives has been over developed, every inch of space ,every nook and cranny ,pvc and botch ,what have the council done to protect ye old St ives ? Sweet F.A
As one of the founders of this unique Cornish Garden under the quite unique care of neil armsrong, I am always moved by the way this garden matures, from the bare fields we walked all those years ago,and yes in company with neil, sheila williams and patrick cousins. I have my own garden, which has many of these plants and I gave a great many to Trmenhere in the early days. Iwould encourage anyone seeing this video to paya visit to this wonderful garden and take time to experience many of the instalations and the passion in both the plantings, and the instalations there. A very enjoyable video.
My people known as the Mi'kmaws from Eastern Canada have a legend about the Three Sisters, where Glooscap (Kluskap) a famous warrior/magician amongst my people, turned the Three Sisters (Who were spirit witches) into stone for pranking him while hunting.. The Three Spirit Sisters were also known by many natives for being associated with the three main agricultural crops Corn, Beans, and Squash.
God Bless and Save Their Majesties The King and Queen alongside all Members of The Royal Family and The UNITED KINGDOM and The Commonwealth 🤴👑👸📯🎺🎷🥁🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🏴🏴🏴🇦🇮🇬🇷🇨🇵🏰❤️
By Tony Farrell - Memories of Consols Pool, in THE ST IVES TIMES & ECHO and HAYLE TIMES, 19 April 2024 : A recent edition of the St Ives Times & Echo contained several photographs taken up at Consols Pool to record the tradition of sailing model yachts up at the Pool on Good Friday. The tradition goes back many years and is really a continuation of the sailing of model-yachts in the harbour at low-tide, when local people still lived Downlong. As a boy, I spent my childhood years Uplong, and many days were spent playing in the fields around Penbeagle. Consols Pool was a part of our natural playground and because of my father’s interest in model yachts I cannot begin to count the many hours I spent around ‘the Pond’. ‘The Pond’ began life as a part of the workings of St Ives Consols Mine and there are early photographs showing children and Bal Maidens dressing the tin ore in the 1870s. By the 1950s, ‘the Pond’ was open, and accessible to anyone who wanted to use it for sailing model yachts. In those days this was a popular pastime and hobby for adults as well as children. The only restriction on use was when it was occasionally emptied for maintenance - but it was always cleared of weed and made ready for Good Friday. I can recall standing on the banks of ‘the Pond’ watching the models and seeing cattle being driven from the fields, along the road and down to Consols Farm. The cattle would often meander over to the water troughs on the West bank for a drink, or wander down to the sloping bank by the roadside and drink water from the pool itself. BLACKSMITH’S FORGE In the 1950s, a blacksmith’s forge was located by the fork in the road where the Roundhouse is now situated and the forge was still being worked. My father would sometimes stop to have a ‘yarn’ with John the smith, on our way home. On occasions, if we had been good, my brother and I would be treated to a bottle of ‘pop’ while they chatted. The blacksmith always had a small collection of bottles of Jolly’s mineral water for sale. He kept the small bottles on a shelf in the forge and sold them for 6d each. In those days, all the model yachts were home-made, and people took pride in the appearance and sailing qualities of their boats. Good Friday would see ‘the Pond’ packed with boats and the banks thronged with people chatting and enjoying some Spring weather. It was a sad day when the West bank was cordoned off by a new owner and we were denied access to that side of the pool. This was soon followed by the East bank being closed off. At the time this happened, I wrote a letter to the then Town Clerk and to the press, explaining that open access to the pool had long been established and documented. ‘POND DIPPING’ The Town Clerk and Council did little to fight for this cause but a small group of people joined together to campaign for greater access. As a result the South bank, over by the chapel, was cleared and some wooden furniture was placed there. The North bank, by the road, had a wooden jetty constructed to facilitate ‘pond dipping’ for children. Sadly, the lack of access to the whole pool effectively ended the hobby of model yachting in the town. For a time, in the ’70s, a model yacht club was formed by enthusiasts, and models were sailed and raced up at Bussow Reservoir - but this too was curtailed after a while. Because of the difficulties of access, several local families took to sailing their models over at Wherrytown Pool in Penzance. The Bassetts and the Farrells lamented that they were forced to go over to ‘the Dark Side’ of the peninsula to continue a St Ives tradition! It is ironic that the Town Council are now seeking help and support in order to maintain this Good Friday tradition. There are photographs in the St Ives Times & Echo archive of a group of enthusiasts working on the pool in the early 1960s. At that time, the pool was widened and the West bank was made more secure. The reward for all this effort and activity was the ultimate closure of ‘the Pond’ to local people and the resulting decline of a local tradition. Good Friday ‘up the Pond’ still remains a magnet for local people to meet, but it is a pity that the event is so drastically restricted. Locally made model yachts can still be seen, but they are fewer in number every year. It is inevitable that the tradition of making them, and sailing them, will slowly die and another part of our local heritage will be lost.
I met my husband in 1998 and we started going to St Ives in 1999 where we found the delightful Cortina. We visited every year until ot closed and most mornings stopped for coffee and had the wonderful scones in the afternoon. I lost my husband last year and these were some of my best memories. Lovely people and always made ro feel welcome. I always smile when I walk past Cortina and read the little plaque on the wall. Thank you for sharing.
Hi there, we are driving to st ives station tomorrow and parking in disabled parking there. Is it easy to push a wheelchair from there down to porthminster beach cafe (this is where we are hiring a beach wheelchair). Thanks!
Yes, it’s quite easy. You push the chair behind the train platform, as shown in this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UmOHOk287Ao.html Good luck.
'Gather up the pieces before it is all gone'... I never dreamed so much would disappear and the pace is relentless. The Glorius light is still St Ives, but many of the pieces are now gone, only the memories recorded in these wonderful paintings of one of the most beautiful places on Earth now remain. I love the St Ives Museum and one amusing exhibet never fails to make me smile and that is the worlds smallest dog. I will definately make time to come to this exhibition. Thank you for posting.
I remember collecting Dragon fly's here in 1973 wearing thigh waders the water in the middle was about 2 to 2 1/2' in depth, with a detectably hard bottom. This was before the pepper pot was built. I suppose the main cost would be diposal of the silt. This is a problem for any river fed pond lake or indeed the Bussow reservoir as bank errosion and rotting foliage and twigs flow down. The annual rotting down of the pond weed and marginal plants being another factor. There is a fine head of small brown trout in the pond whose defaction will also add to the silting. I hope this lovely pond is not allowed to fall into decline as apart from boating it is such a good habitat. Good luck people of St Ives. It seems to me that sometimes priorities are gotton completely wrong.
This won 'Exhibition of the Year' at the Cornwall Heritage Awards. The museum was also highly commended in the 'Spirit of the Awards' category which recognised a commitment to environmental sustainability and inclusion. In February 2024 Curator Andy Smith, Assistant Curator Peter Garratt and Collections Consultant Matilda Webb collected the award, which Andy dedicated to all of the wonderful volunteers who work at the museum. He also thanked Art Historian David Tovey for his invaluable assistance in putting on the Exhibition. St Ives Museum will reopen on 1st April 2024 with a new exhibition called 'Capturing the Light: St. Ives Artists 1885 - 1914. This showcases a wonderful range of paintings by a wide variety of British and international artists. There will also be a new display of beautiful clothing and fabrics manufactured at the Crysede factory which opened on the Island in St. Ives in 1926. 2024 is the centenary of the museum and there will be a wide range of celebratory events and activities throughout the year.
That track is called 'Cornwall is Calling' by the St Ives Minstrels. Written by the great Cornish bard Johnny Barber, the lead vocal is by his daughter Irene. I also used it on the last part of this tribute to Johnny's remarkable life ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ufkZJfsHmhU.html
Mr Thomas, at 21.14, seems to be from South Wales. There was a lot of migration from Devon and Cornwall to South Wales in the mid 19th century and later, because of the industry there. Not surprising in view of the hard times they had in fishing.
