January 2025
News for the Penwith Local History Group website.
Jean Nankervis, one of our members, has just published A History of Zennor, Volume 3. Five other members of the Penwith Local History Group contributed 20 of the illustrations. The 58 pages are packed with 38 figures of which six are in colour.
Volume 2, which is still available, explored life in Zennor from 1600 to the English Civil Wars. Following the accession of Charles II to the throne in 1660 came new hope and new ideas. Prosperity increased as mining moved from the east of Cornwall to the west. Volume 3 explores the effect this had in Zennor.
John Wesley came to Zennor in 1743 and then he found St Ives, Penzance and St Just were all about the same size. By 1767 the first Methodist Society in Zennor was formed at Treen. In 1768 the new vicar listed all the farms in Zennor and who lived there. Of the twenty-four families covered in this book a third of the names were still there in living memory.
Available at the Morrab Library and in local shops at £15, ISBN 9781068305306.
On the front cover is an etching by Betty Nankervis of Zennor in the Old Days.
PLHG publications can be purchased online here or perused in the Morrab Library.
Penwith Local History Group
Edited by
Sally Corbet
price £10
plus p&p
Photo Glyn Richards