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There are more bathing tents; by now the St Ives' beaches were being managed as tourist attractions. In the distance can be seen a slipway that was built from The Island to Porthmeor Beach in 1911.

This narrow St Ives street got its name from a rabbit warren once situated there. The street was also used at one time as a convenient 'rope walk' where ropes were made for the fishing industry.

St Ives is still famous for its cats. In the fishing era, every household had at least one cat, for the very practical purpose of keeping the net cellars free of mice.

The road is very different to its modern counterpart, and reflects how much the sea was the main way out of St Ives. Cars pass by today where boats were once pulled up on the beach.

The school was built in 1880 in The Stennack, the main road that leads out of St Ives to the west. The building was a school until 1984. It was converted into a doctor's surgery in 1992.

Methodists who broke from the parent society in St Ives in 1838 to form a Teetotal Society later joined the 'New Connexion' Methodists at the end of the 19th century, and moved to this neo-Gothic building

Large numbers of gulls gathered in the harbour even in those days, but unlike today's gulls, many of which nest on St Ives' rooftops, these gulls returned at night to nesting colonies on the sea cliffs

The Porthminster Hotel, overlooking Porthminster Beach, was opened in 1894 to accommodate the increasing number of visitors arriving in St Ives since the opening of the railway.

The lighthouse gave warning of a dangerous reef called The Stones that lies on the northern side of St Ives Bay.

Behind them are classic St Ives fishing boats, known as luggers because the type of sail they used was called a lug sail. The children were probably on a school outing or Sunday School 'tea treat'.

This view shows a number of St Ives gigs, small shallow-keeled boats.

Here we see an assortment of old holiday cruisers tied up at the quay in St Ives. Note the identical fold-back roofs fitted to each boat.

This photograph illustrates the more prosperous look to St Ives' harbourside buildings compared with 50 years before.

St Ives has many small courtyards like this, which would once have been a centre for domestic and social life.

These houses, built from cut granite and with substantial bay windows, reflect a more suburban building style compared with the cottages of old St Ives.

Compared with the view of Porthminster Beach taken in 1890, this view indicates how much the holiday industry had taken over the St Ives beaches.

Foreshore houses in St Ives were built with tall gables, and had few ground-floor windows on the seaward side.

Tregenna Place and its continuation of the High Street are still the main thoroughfares into the harbour area of St Ives.

St Ives, the pilchard capital of the west and Mecca for artists, encapsulates everything Cornish.

This road still exists and leads to Porthmeor Beach and to today's St Ives Tate Gallery.

The handsome building on the corner, with its chateau-style turret, is the St Ives Public Library that was opened in 1897. J.

The wooden building on the railed platform is Shore Shelter Lodge, one of the famous St Ives Fishermen's 'Lodges', where fishermen gathered in their spare time.

For centuries a fishing port, St Ives is today better known for its artistic community.

Along with places like Looe, Polperro and St Ives, Mevagissey has long been a fishing port much loved by artists and visitors alike.