St Ives Young Conservatives think they have a cunning plan to thwart the Socialist governments attemps to speed up progress.....

Vessel on fire reported off St Ives. Boats manned for rescue attempt…….

Coastguard Charlie May can hardly believe his eyes. There before him is a brilliantly lit leviathon of a ship and she's heading for the Manacles..............

Penzance Free Library, a beacon of light illuminating the path to the future......

There a public, or is it private, enquiry in Sennen today. Did the lifeboatmen fail in their duty, that's the issue under scrutiny.

The 11th October 1837 marked the first appearance of shoals of herring off St Ives for 14 years. It was the first day of a plentiful season....

The St Keverne gold rush: Ballarat expert forecasts bright future.

On the 9th October 1821 Joseph Carne presented a paper to the Annual Meeting the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall on the Mineral Productions and the Geology of St Just. The paper included the first mineralogical map of the St Just Mining District.

It’s 9.15 of a Tuesday morning, and the Swift – with Captain John Jacka at the helm – is heading out to sea. Captain Jacka is proud of the Swift: she’s a long-liner, only seven years old, with a proper motor.

The seafront at penzance is subject to fairly regular assaults by the sea. Many ppeople will remember the damage caused to the Jubillee Pool in 2014 but in 1880 the road to Newlyn was destroyed and lives were lost.

Elixirs, remedies, renewed vigour, improved performance etc. The snake oil salesman has been ever with us. But have you ever heard of Casumen which will put an end to "weakly, stunted men?" 

On 5th October 1900 Edward Hain, fourth of the name of head of  the family shipping business, was elected as M.P. for St Ives.

It's been hot, but the pressure has suddenly fallen, a storn is coming. How bad will it be?

This is Penzance. This is Penzance. The train now standing at platform 1 is the 10.00 am train for Paddington. Passengers for Aberdeen please board the rear two carriages. This train calls at St Erth, Hayle, Camborne..........arriving in Aberdeen at 8.35 tomorrow morning. 

Sunday 2nd October 1938. Chamberlain is back from Munich with his piece of paper and the church sermons give thanks for the lessening of international tensions while, in a less sombre mood, harvest festivals are celebrated across Penwith.

On 1 October 1817 a house belonging to Admiral Linzee, in Chapel Street, Penzance, was put up for sale. Which house was it? Is it still there? And who was Admiral Linzee?

1660: The restoration of the Monarchy, good times all round with the Merry Monarch and his friends and supporters. But this is a king who is a bit short of his own resources so how are the good times going to be paid for? People can be difficult to count, they move about, let's try hearths!

It's the "first annual demonstration" of the St Ives, Lelant and Towednack United Conservative Association and Mr Charles Ross M.P. is just arriving at the Malakoff, in a carriage and pair I hasten to add........

The St Just Wesleyan Chapel is a huge place, in its day it regularly hosted congrations in excess of 1000 people. Opened in 1833 it is a monument to a cultural moment which has now passed in into history but the iconic building still seems to draw the people......

100 degrees fahrenheit, high humidity, low oxygen, quarter of a mile out under the Atlantic ocean and about 1500 feet beneath the ocean floor. Why would anyone want to go to such a place...............

It's 1882, just three years since Joseph Swann amazed the Lit. and Phil. in Newcastle with his electric light, and now the people of Penzance can visit an exhibition lit by electric light.

The steam packet ship Herald made her first voyage from Bristol to Hayle on 24 September 1831, ushering a new service which would bring numerous benefits to west Cornwall over the next 30 years.

World Championship Heavyweight Boxing comes to Penzance, two years after the event on Coney Island but now's your chance to see the Cornish Blacksmith and World Champion Bob Fitzsimmons of Helston face challenger James J. Jefferies of California....