1953 Coronation Street Party: Remembering the Day
On the 7th April 2023, St Ives Archive volunteer Wendy Grove submitted the photo below to the Times & Echo inviting readers to get in touch if they recognised anybody in the photograph. Shortly after, Brian Mitchell contacted the Archive and asked if we had any more photos of the event – fortunately, we did.…
St Ives Archive Secret Photo Show in the Press
St Ives Archive is delighted to have their first Secret Photo Show featured in the St Ives Times & Echo and The Cornishman. If you missed reading about the recent photography show in print, we have shared digital copies of the articles below. A special thank you to Archive Trustee Celeste Allen for bringing the…
Just Where Is Chitta?
Here at St Ives Archive we take an interest in anything connected to the history and life of the town and area. So when our attention was drawn to an article in the Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries which claimed that Lelant was probably the target of a Spanish raid in 1405 which left…
Secret Photo Show: Meet the Photographers
For the first time, St Ives Archive is collaborating with local photographers to put on the Secret Photo Show, a two-day art sale to raise money for the Archive. The show will include works by a talented group of photographers from a range of specialities and expertise. All photos, to go on display next week,…
St Ives Archive’s New Catalogue System
The refresh of our website has spurred us on to modernise our Archive “catalogue”. For many years we have been using two separate systems, one for recording scanned photographs and the other for recording acquisitions. In order to provide a single web browser-based search facility we have, with the help of Cornwall Council Cultivator funding,…
Celebrating the Life and Legacy of John Passmore Edwards
The Archive Centre was asked to put together a display to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of John Passmore Edwards. Over the past few months, two volunteers sifted through the information and photographs held in the archives and put together a display to be held at the St Ives Library. From humble beginnings, Passmore…
Cornwall Heritage Trust CEO Visits St Ives Archive
The St Ives Archive are delighted to have been featured in the launch edition of Cornwall Heritage Trust’s new magazine, An Gwithyas, which is Cornish for ‘The Custodian’. Written by Cornwall Heritage Trust’s CEO, Cathy Woolcock, the article recounts Cathy’s first visit to the Archive, including a pleasant discovery of family photographs from our collection.…
2023 St Ives Archive Calendar On Sale Now
A photo of St Ives has been selected for every month from the Archive’s extensive database. This year’s calendar in particular features a selection of photographs by Andrew Lanyon. You can purchase our calendar by visiting the Shop page or by visiting the Archive during our opening hours.
Pop-up Archive
St Ives Archive opened a pop-up Archive at 1A Bedford Road, St Ives, between the 12th and 17th September as part of this year’s St Ives September Festival. The purpose of the pop-up was to raise awareness of the wealth of local historical information that is held by St Ives Archive in their Research Centre…
St Ives September Festival
St Ives Archive is excited to have been a part of this year’s St Ives September Festival! In addition to having a ‘Pop-up Archive’ during the Festival, there were guided walks and specialist history talks around town. A huge thank you to Trustee Tony Mason, social historian Janet Axten, volunteer Madie Parkinson-Evans and all of…
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