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This fine terrace of houses is another indication of improved housing design and of the spread of St Ives onto the higher ground overlooking St Ives Bay.

On the right is part of the Marine Dealers' Stores run by the famous St Ives 'naive' painter Alfred Wallis. Works of Wallis's can be seen at the St Ives Tate Gallery.

This photograph looks down the High Street towards St Ives' Parish Church. The High Street remains the main entranceway to the older part of St Ives, and is an important shopping street.

St Ives harbourside is crowded with holidaymakers, at a time when the town was probably at its peak as a tourist destination.

The boat in the foreground is a typical St Ives 'gig'. Its shallow keel was specially suited to a tidal harbour like St Ives. Beyond the fishing boats can be seen the prow of a cargo vessel.

St Ives Harbour, facing east and in the lee of the Island, is one of the more sheltered harbours on this rugged coastline.

It was here, on rough sandy banks, that the St Ives pilchard fishing boats of the 19th century were drawn up clear of the beach. St Ives Station can be seen directly behind the boy in the foreground.

This popular inn on the harbour at St Ives is said to date back to 1312. In the 20th century it became a favourite haunt of the St Ives artists' colony. There is now a small porch by the doorway.

Somersham stretches for about a mile along a kink in the road between St Ives and Chatteris. The village was once celebrated for its mineral spa.

The Hotel is situated in Albany Terrace overlooking St Ives Bay. The hotel has a long pedigree, and has been much extended since this photograph was taken.

This dramatic lighthouse, although not named in the book as Godrevy, is said to have been the inspiration for Virginia Woolf's famous novel 'To the Lighthouse', which she wrote while staying in St Ives

A more modern view of St Ives, with flower boxes gracing the windows of the houses and with smart whitewashed walls. Today, there is a very fine art gallery here, the Wills Lane Gallery.

St Ives as a holiday town in the 1960s, with cafes and restaurants. The fishing connection survives, however. Boats still dominate the harbour at low tide and signs advertise lobster and crab.

Hartford lies between Huntingdon and St Ives, bordering on the Ouse.

This panoramic view of Porthminster beach and St Ives was taken from near the local coastguard station. On the left of the picture pilchard boats can be seen drawn up at the top of the beach.

The building flanking the walk has the characteristic rough stone work of old St Ives.

Gulls have always haunted St Ives harbour, although today they scavenge food refuse rather than the offal from fish gutting and cleaning.

ST IVES, Bridge Street1955 S23004 Today, the bridge at St Ives is restricted to pedestrians, but up to fifty years ago, it was possible to drive a cart or a car over the bridge.

This imposing building is still a prominent feature of the Trenwith area of St Ives. Once a popular hotel, it is now a private nursing home.

The Hotel has a fine cloak of ivy. Tregenna Castle is still one of St Ives' best known hotels, and now boasts a golf course amongst its many facilities.

These houses overlook Porthminster Beach and have views of St Ives Bay that are as superb today as they were when this photograph was taken.

Lines of Cornish 'luggers', the characteristic sail-powered vessels of the St Ives fishing industry, lie in packed tiers on the harbour sand. The quay side is piled high with fish boxes.

Ives shows little change. The old post office (left) was turned into a bed & breakfast in the late 1960s, and the petrol pump disappeared about that time also.

(St Ives' streets were often named with commendable simplicity). This picture again shows the upper living quarters and ground floor fish cellars typical of the time.