Photos  
     
 

The inner harbour  -  looking north

  

The Elvins family - all hands on deck - landing fish on Polstreath Beach
     
 

Looking south on to the jetty

  

The view from the museum, 100 years ago
     

 

The Mevagissey baker, Jim Dredge, ready for the morning customers

  

Fisherman:-  Albert Hunkin (1884-1966)  -  Insisted boiling "watter" on a Primus was always hotter than they 'lectric' kettle jobs
     
 

William Whatty and his brother, Alfie,  the village cobblers   The Frazier family - owners of this boatyard from the 1880s to 1968. Arthur Frazier was instrumental in making sure that this part of the boatyard was retained as a museum.
     
 
Mevagissey lifeboat on the beach   Lifeboat launch from what is now the aquarium
     
 
Ready for the journey to St Austell.
Cloke's bus on town bridge   circa. 1900		   Feast week in Mevagissey
     

 

 

Mevagissey middle school - the girls were taught
for decades by Carrie Roberts		   Market Square - The Ship Inn on the left
     
 

Mevagissey Football Club  1920s

  

Farming above Portmellon  c.1930
     

 

 

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