Mevagissey
Mevagissey photos (367 available)
Mevagissey maps (2 available)
Map of Cornwall
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Mevagissey books (12 available)
Truro Town Walk Guide
Paperback
Cornwall Living Memories
Paperback
St Austell Bay Photographic Memories
Paperback
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Mevagissey memories
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Notes from the Frith files.
Lady on the left in the white apron is Miss Douch selling fish.
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Notes from the Frith files.
Names from left to right are Siah Longmade, Tommy Cloak, Bill Mills, Wilbur Hunkin, Harold Barber, Dick Nicholls, B. Over, Bill Joe Robbins, Jimmy Dunn and last Jim Bullen. Bill Hunkin is standing holding the little girls hand. By the wall, the man with the pipe is Willie Dyer and Cliff Nicholls is behind him.
Contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Cornwall memories
Notes from the Frith files.
Lady on the left in the white apron is Miss Douch selling fish.
A memory of Mevagissey contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Notes from the Frith files.
Names from left to right are Siah Longmade, Tommy Cloak, Bill Mills, Wilbur Hunkin, Harold Barber, Dick Nicholls, B. Over, Bill Joe Robbins, Jimmy Dunn and last Jim Bullen. Bill Hunkin is standing holding the little girls hand. By the wall, the man with the pipe is Willie Dyer and Cliff Nicholls is behind him.
A memory of Mevagissey contributed by The Frith Memory Archivist
Extracts From Mevagissey & Cornwall books
Five miles south of St Austell, Mevagissey is first recorded in 1410. The local class of pilchard driver and long liner
was about 40ft in length with a beam of 12ft. Boats can still operate in and out of this harbour when weather
conditions close those that face the prevailing south-westerlies.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".
The inner stone jetties of this thriving port provide sheltered moorings for a large
fleet of fishing vessels. In calm weather, the rocky sea front of the outer harbour
can be used safely to secure boats before embarkation - a source of interest to
people seated along the jetty wall.
Mevagissey
An extract from from"Picturesque Harbours Photographic Memories".
These fishermen have returned to harbour and are sorting the fish caught in their drift nets.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
A three-masted barque and a brig lie at
anchor below Hall Walk. Local ships
traded to the Mediterranean, Spain and
Portugal, and the last square-rigged
merchant sailing ship on the British
register was from Fowey. She was the
‘Waterwitch’, built at Poole in 1871 as a
collier-brig, but converted to
barquentine-rig in the 1880s. Owned by
Edward Stephens, she made her last
passage with cargo in 1936.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".
Toshers, crabbers, pilchard and mackerel drivers fill Mevagissey Harbour. The tosher, an example of which is the
small white open-hulled sailing craft in the foreground, was a local class of hand liner. As can be seen here, the hull
was divided into compartments, and though this example is open-decked throughout, larger toshers were often fitted
with a small cuddy deck forward.
An extract from from"Victorian and Edwardian Maritime Album".