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St Ives Island, on which the Chapel of St Nicholas stands, is actually a headland joined to the shore.

The record of St Ives' lifeboats is an outstanding one, but has meant great sacrifice.

A very old part of St Ives. This area is next to the present day Sloop Inn. Left of the building is Pudding Bag Lane, so called because like a pudding bag it had only one opening.

It would be hard to find a straight edge in St Ives. Everything seems twisted or warped - the granite setts, alleys and courtyards, blue slate-hung walls, whitewashed rubble, tumbling roofs.

This is just one of the many narrow streets that are so characteristic of St Ives.

The war memorial at the junction of Hollidays Road and the main Earith to St Ives road was moved in early 1976 after a lorry hit it.

Today Porthmeor Beach is home to the Tate Gallery St Ives, built on the site of the old gasholder which can just be seen to the right of the ruin.

The St Erth to St Ives branch line, the last broad gauge railway to be built, was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1877.

Fore Street is still one of St Ives' busiest thoroughfares.

Cromwell's family farmed at Slepe Hall in St Ives, but by all accounts they were not particularly successful at it; they were even thought to have contemplated emigrating to America at one point.

The cedar survived from the grounds of Ives Place, a mansion and later an hotel, which stood where the present 1962 Town Hall is located.

The granite was carried by boat to St Ives.

This view shows St Ives' smallest beach bursting at the seams at a time when beach holidays were at the height of their popularity.

Just over a mile separates this popular sandy bay from St Ives. Above the coast path at Porthminster Point lived the 'Huer', whose job it was to watch for the arrival of the pilchard shoals.

The building with the jettied gables to the left dates back to the 17th century, on the face of it one of the oldest buildings in St Ives, although earlier buildings survive behind more modern facades.

The St Ives lifeboat is on its carriage outside the lifeboat house on West Pier near the church. The present lifeboat house is on the near side of the pier.

Cornwall's most westerly branch line, just 4 miles long, was opened from St Erth to St Ives in 1877.

In the 13th century, St Ives was one of the biggest markets in Europe. Since then, encroachment by buildings greatly reduced its size.

This photograph and H464004 show the same scene on the St Ives Road.

St Ives fishermen favoured flat-bottomed craft that remained upright at low water in the harbour surf.

St Ives

This granite settlement stands in a treeless hollow, five miles south of St Ives. Though itself unspectacular, the coastline about is rugged and sublime.

The four-and-a-half mile St Erth to St Ives branch line (visible on the left) saw its first train in 1877.

This view was taken standing against the old Butter Cross looking down the St Ives road.