A CARE FAMILY HISTORY: QUESTIONS FOR A GRANDFATHER AUTHOR  Edgar Wilson Care A Care Family History successfully combines a well researched family history with anecdotal stories of the author’s life. It is a wonderfully wise, informative and humerous effort. It is a gift to his grandchildren and their children, and a reminder to them to discover the persons behind the words of Mom and Dad.  Price incl. UK p&p £7.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

A CORNISH CHRONICLE AUTHOR  F.E.Halliday The story of three generations of the Carew family of Antony in Cornwall covering the period from the Armada to the Restoration. It is a sequel to Mr. Halliday’s “Richard Carew of Antony” and he has been able to add new material to his original study. Price incl. UK p&p £7.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

A HISTORY OF ST.IVES, LELANT ETC. AUTHOR  John Hobson Matthews John Hobson Matthews’ book, running to 560 pages, was the first printed history of the St. Ives district. In 34 chapters he covered a wide range of historical matters including the Borough Accounts from 1570 to 1776, local families, notabilities, churches, elections, customs, place names, to mention a few of his topics – a mine of information. Price incl. UK p&p £68.00 Quantity: Add to Basket

A MASTER MARINER OF THE 20th CENTURY: CAPTAIN JOHN KEMP M.B.E. AUTHOR  Eric Kemp A lifetime account of Captain John Kemp M.B.E. from his birth in the small fishing village of St. Ives and his early experiences growing up before and during the First World War, through to becoming a highly respected Captain in the Merchant Navy with over fifty years of seamanship. This is an insight into the Merchant Navy and a real piece of maritime history, with good accounts of the ships and a large number of black and white photographs. Price incl. UK p&p £17.90 Quantity: Add to Basket

A WORD IN YOUR EAR: HISTORY ABOUT ST. IVES AUTHOR Tom Richards Historical articles first published in The St. Ives Times & Echo, with black and white illustrations. Price incl. UK p&p £7.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

ALFRED WALLIS AND HIS FAMILY:  FACT AND FICTION AUTHOR  Peter Barnes Born in Devonport in 1855 Alfred Wallis moved to St. Ives with his family in 1894 where after the death of his wife, he became an amateur painter. He was ‘discovered’ by Ben Nicholson and Christopher Wood in the nineteen-twenties and is thought to have influenced the ‘primitive’ movement. Price incl. UK p&p £6.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

ANOTHER VIEW:  ART IN ST. IVES AUTHOR  Marion Whybrow. This is a selection of contemporary painters, potters and sculptors working in St Ives in the 1990s, many producing work in an abstract way. Each is illustrated in black and white by a photographic portrait of the artist and one of their works. Price incl. UK p&p £6.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

ART ABOUT ST. IVES AUTHORS  Henry G. Gilbert, Roy Ray and Colin Orchard, 2006 First published in 1987 this beautiful guide to the Art Colony in St. Ives has now been reprinted using today’s technology of computers, digital cameras and advanced printing technology. It has been updated and republished in full colour. It takes the reader on a tour of St. Ives, weaving together the past and the present of a community where for well over 120 years, art and artists have been a continuous and vital element. Price incl. UK p&p £11.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

BARBARA HEPWORTH An illustrated catalogue compiled by the St. Ives Council to commemorate the Honorary Freedom of the Borough to Bernard Leach and Barbara Hepworth, on September 23rd. 1968. It contains Hepworth’s awards, commissions and monographs and a detailed biography and bibliography. Price incl. UK p&p £4.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

BRYAN PEARCE AND HIS ARTIST FRIENDS AUTHOR  Janet Axten An illustrated publication produced to coincide with the exhibition of the same name at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 6th March to 9th May 2004. It contains an important essay ‘The Idyllic Vision of Bryan Pearce’ by the eminent writer on art Mel Gooding. Price incl. UK p&p £11.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

CORNWALL RAILWAY SOCIETY EDITED BY  Keith Lloyd The quarterly magazine of the Cornwall Railway Society containing historical articles, current articles and news, and society reports. Illustrated and printed in black and white Price incl. UK p&p £4.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

CREATING A SPLASH:  THE ST. IVES SOCIETY OF ARTISTS: THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS (1927-1952) AUTHOR  David Tovey Catalogue and Dictionary of Members of the St. Ives Society of Artists for the first 25 years 1927-1952, which accompanied an exhibition of the same name touring six venues around Britain between June 2003 and July 2004. Price incl. UK p&p £43.50 Quantity: Add to Basket

EIGHTY FROM THE EIGHTIES Interview written for PENINSULAR VOICE, a monthly magazine published in Penzance from 1983 until 1991. The 80 artists, musicians and writers chosen reflect the enthusiasms of the contributors at the time. Whilst not a comprehensive list, it does give an idea of what was going on in the community of West Cornwall during the nineteen-eighties. Price incl. UK p&p £11.85 Quantity: Add to Basket

FRIENDS FOR LIFE: THE STORY OF OUR HOSPITAL AUTHOR  Mary Quick This is the history of the Edward Hain Memorial Hospital in St. Ives which was opened in 1920 in memory of the son of Sir Edward Hain who died at Galipoli during the First World War. It was written at a time when its future was uncertain due the financial restraints by the Health Authority. Due to the efforts of the community it was saved and is still an important amenity in the town. Price incl. UK p&p £2.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

GASWORKS TO GALLERY: THE STORY OF TATE ST IVES AUTHOR  Janet Axten The history of the campaign for and the building of The Tate Gallery in St. Ives from early plans in 1988 to the day the gallery opened in June 1993 The story begins at the end of the First World War when the town first had the idea of creating an art gallery to commemorate the men who had died in the war. Price incl. UK p&p £15.00 Quantity: Add to Basket

GORSEMOOR COTTAGE AUTHOR  Marion Whybrow Zillah inherits Gorsemoor Cottage in Zennor. She also inherits her grandma and her great grandmother’s diaries. Through reading the diaries she experiences the history of her family in farming, fishing and mining. The artists too brought both fame and shame to Cornish villages. Will Zillah allow the secrets she uncovers to change her life? Price incl. UK p&p £8.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

GUIDO: PRINTING FOR FRIENDS AUTHOR Michael Bridge with illustrations by David Berriman. The People and Places of some Saint Ives Latin Press Printings. An Exhibition at the St. Ives Trust Archive Study Centre 9th. To 23rd. September 2006. With a guide to visiting the Places in Downalong. Price incl. UK p&p £3.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

LEACH POTTERY ST. IVES: THE LEGACY OF BERNARD LEACH AUTHOR Marion Whybrow The Leach Pottery is important, not only because it served as a base for Bernard Leach to put his ideas into practice, but also because it involved a team of workers, jointly sharing their passion for clay. From students, apprentices and professional potters, to clay mixers, kiln firers and pot packers, the Leach Pottery, encouraged, nurtured and trained the art of the potter. Price incl. UK p&p £23.49 Quantity: Add to Basket

MARITIME ST. IVES AUTHOR  John McWilliams. Twenty-five maritime photographs (including five in colour) from the Archive Study Centre’s extensive collection are brought together in a small volume to celebrate the importance of St Ives harbour. The dates of these range from the beginning of the century to the 1970s. Subjects include: the St Ives herring season, 1920s; the ‘Lady Thomas’ unloading coal, c.1936; Destroyer HMS ‘Foresight’ in St Ives Bay, June 1937; Boys sailing washtrays in the Harbour; French crabbers race, St Ives Regatta, 1930s and the diving raft at Porthminster Beach, 1938. Price incl. UK p&p £6.45 Quantity: Add to Basket

MARTIN COCK’S GUIDE TO ST. IVES: Its Surroundings, Scenery, Curiosities, Antiquities, History and Traditions  AUTHOR  John Hobson Matthews. A facsimile of the fourth edition  of John Hobson Matthews Guide to St. Ives originally published by Martin Cock in 1909. The guide was first published in 1884 and it provided a comprehensive survey of St. Ives and surrounding area for the visitors who were beginning to come to the town in growing numbers. Price incl. UK p&p £11.90 Quantity: Add to Basket

MEMORIES OF WARTIME ST. IVES AUTHORS  Ted Lever and Nigel Jeyes This first publication produced by volunteers at the St. Ives Archive Study Centre was produced for the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. St. Ives men and women served in all corners of the world from 1939-1945 and many did not return. Price incl. UK p&p £7.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

POETICAL SKETCHES OF ST. IVES AUTHOR  Sarah Nichols Sarah Nichols wrote her first poem whilst holidaying in St. Ives with her husband Peter, usually in September but also in the quieter times in March. It is a journey through St. Ives by day and night in sun and rain. The book contains eighteen poems and each is accompanied by the author’s own thoughts and inspirations. Price incl. UK p&p £9.90 Quantity: Add to Basket

PRISIONERS OF OUR AGE AUTHOR  Peter Murrish Being an account of the Second World War and its aftermath as it affected the small seaside town of St. Ives and a young Cornish boy who lived there. Price incl. UK p&p £7.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

REMEMBERING ST. IVES:  VIRGINIA WOOLF AND VANESSA BELL AUTHORS  Marion Dell and Marion Whybrow In 1881 Leslie Stephen, a sophisticated man of letters, bought the lease of Talland House in St. Ives. From then until the death of his wife, Julia, in May 1895 when the lease was sold the whole Stephen family, with servants and mounds of luggage, would spend several months every summer in what was essentially their second home. Vanessa and Virginia felt that ‘Nothing we had as children was quite so important to us as our summer in Cornwall’. Price incl. UK p&p £17.45 Quantity: Add to Basket

SHADOW OVER SUMMER AUTHOR  Marion Whybrow Rosemary Knight rents Talland House in St. Ives Cornwall, where she hopes to write her novel. It was the childhood holiday home of Virginia Woolf, and the inspiration for her book To the Lighthouse. She is eager to be similarly inspired. Whilst Rosemary is writing, her twin daughters, Demelza and Lamorna, spend their time on Porthminster beach where George befriends them…. Price incl. UK p&p £8.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

ST. IVES 1883–1993:  PORTRAIT OF AN ART COLONY AUTHOR  Marion Whybrow. First published in 1994 and with an introduction by the Tate curator David Brown, this essential publication for all those interested in the history of the art colony in St. Ives charts the life and work of the artists from the establishment of the St. Ives Art Club and the founding of the St. Ives Society of Artists to the creation of the Penwith Society and later the coming of Tate St. Ives. Price incl. UK p&p £23.45 Quantity: Add to Basket

ST. IVES FESTIVAL PROGRAMME 6th - 14th JUNE 1953 This is the complete programme of the Festival of Music and the Arts which was organised to celebrate the music of the two Elizabethan ages in the year of the coronation. Price incl. UK p&p £5.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL  GW A - J AUTHOR Ted Lever Register of names for the Great War 1914-1918. In two parts : A-J Price incl. UK p&p £4.99 Quantity: Add to Basket

ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL  GW K - Z AUTHOR Ted Lever Register of names for the Great War 1914-1918. In two parts : K - Z Price incl. UK p&p £4.99 Quantity: Add to Basket

ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL  WWII A - J AUTHOR Ted Lever Register of names for the Second World War 1914-1918. In two parts : A - J Price incl. UK p&p £4.99 Quantity: Add to Basket

ST. IVES WAR MEMORIAL  WWII K - Z AUTHOR Ted Lever Register of names for the Second World War 1914-1918. In two parts : K - Z Price incl. UK p&p £4.99 Quantity: Add to Basket

THE DAYS GONE BY AUTHOR  Clies Stevens. A collection of recollections, poems, plays and stories about a Cornish childhood in St. Ives just after the Second World  War. This was a time when doors were never locked and a child could always run to numerous ‘Aunts’ and ‘Uncles’. Price incl. UK p&p £6.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

THE CORNISH WORLD OF DENYS VAL BAKER AUTHOR  Tim Scott This is the remarkable story of Denys Val Baker – writer, editor, seafarer and family man - from childhood years in North Wales, through war-time London to has fateful discovery of Cornwall, where he and his ever-growing family moved through a succession of rather eccentric old houses, and where it was always a case of ‘too little earned money chasing too little owed money’. Price incl. UK p&p £6.90 Quantity: Add to Basket

THE LITTLE BIG BOOK OF SEASIDE HOLIDAYS AUTHOR Mary Quick illustrated by Steve Martin Mary Quick’s lively and evocative story, lavishly illustrated in colour by Steve Martin traces a visiting family through three generations of seaside holidays in St. Ives. It begins with Christine and Ken’s arrival with their children Katherine and Mark on the little branch line steam train in the 1930s. The story then traces the delights of seaside holidays and how they change over the years. Price incl. UK p&p £9.49 Quantity: Add to Basket

THE MIRACLE OF BRYAN PEARCE AUTHOR  C.J.Stevens. This is a biography of Bryan Pearce, who was born in 1929, and is one of the major artists in Cornwall. It was written in part with the collaboration of his mother Mary Pearce, and is a warm portrait of a creative man who has inspired so many people by his unique images of St. Ives and the surrounding area. Price incl. UK p&p £11.95 Quantity: Add to Basket

THE SEA’S IN THE KITCHEN AUTHOR Denys Val Baker. Illustrated by Donald Swan The first in the author’s series of family autobiographies and now re-published for the first time since the 1960s, The Sea’s in the Kitchen is as heartwarming and inspirational now as it was on its original release. Price incl. UK p&p £11.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

THE ST. IVES PROBLEM: A 4000 YEAR OLD NURSERY RHYME? AUTHOR  Bridget Flanagan. Illustrations by Bob Burn-Murdoch. ‘As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives …’ This book asks questions about the famous nursery rhyme and finds surprising answers. It wonders which St. Ives the rhyme refers to – the one in Cornwall or the one in Cambridgeshire? It describes very similar rhymes in German and Italian. Price incl. UK p&p £5.90 Quantity: Add to Basket

TONY GILES AUTHOR  John Branfield Anthony Eric Giles was born on 22nd June 1925 in Somerset, grew up in Taunton and was educated at Huish’s Grammar School. As a child he enjoyed making water colours of the railways he had visited with his father who was an engine driver for the Great Western Railway. Price incl. UK p&p £9.45 Quantity: Add to Basket

TONY O’MALLEY:  AN IRISH ARTIST INCORNWALL AUTHOR  David Whittaker. Born in 1913 in Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland, he learned his art surreptitiously while working as a bank clerk. He moved to St. Ives in 1960 and became part of the thriving artistic community Also included is a lengthy and entertaining account, by O’Malley himself, of his early years growing up In County Kilkenny. Price incl. UK p&p £14.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

TRIP: THE ANNUAL HOLIDAY OF GWR’S SWINDON WORKS AUTHOR Rosa Matheson ‘TRIP’, if you happened to be a Swindonian and one that worked inside the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works, was the event of the year. When, in 1894, a party of some 500 made up of men from the Mechanics Institution and their families took the company’s gratis train to Oxford, they set a tradition that lasted for over 120 years. Price incl. UK p&p £14.94 Quantity: Add to Basket

YESTERDAY'S TOWN: ST.IVES AUTHOR  Cyril Noall A record recalling the town as it used to be in words and pictures. This popular book, which contains many pages of fascinating photographs of old St Ives, was recently reprinted. Price incl. UK p&p £18.90 Quantity: Add to Basket

ZAWN LENS AUTHOR  David Whittaker This is the first part of the series ‘Footnotes on a Landscape: Engagements with Art and Place in West Penwith’. The series is a personal exploration of the genius loci or spirit of place via poems, essays and photographs, with reference to many of the post-war artists and writers, place-names, old maps, folklore, archaeology, geology, mining and the interaction of the varied landscape with the elements and the pervasive sea and light. Price incl. UK p&p £9.95 Quantity: Add to Basket