Porthleven Museum - Our History
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News papers cuttings reporting on illness and death of John TREGEMBO
Newspaper cutting of DEATH of Richard Kitto RICHARDS in Transvaal 1911
Cornish Champions at Bath and West Show 1950 T G RICHARDS
1948 West Cornwall Hospital Management Recruitment Nurses
Shrubberies Housing Development
see location at https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/50.08295/-5.31106
Peter Treloar KITCHEN (1817-1899) kept a journal from 1833 till a few weeks before his death in 1899.
The first part of the journal contains details of deaths, often with some added information and often with a 4-line text beneath the death details.
The Will of John Richards, dated 4 January 1780
Sithney 15th August 1780
The Will of One John Richards lately Deced, Proved in Common form before the Revd Mr John Fisher Clerk Bachelor of Arts Surrogate Etc And Admion of the Goods etc of the said Deced...
Lifeguard Hut being lowered into position from Mounts Road, onto Blue Buoy Steps above the beach 23 June 2016.
The lorry delivering this lifeguard apparatus has to reverse all the way down Shrubberies Hill requiring great skill and stamina from the driver. At the end of the season the process has to be reversed as the weather is too severe to leave the unit in position throughout the winter...
Newspaper Report of concern for Ship Concord - Captain Edwin Pascoe
Amateur Dramatics 1926-27 HMS Pinafore Porthleven Church
Moonflower Chinese Takeaway and Post Office, Fore Street, Cornwall April 2017
First World War Centenary of start - POrthleven graves cleaned up
see original story at http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/helstonandporthleven/11398122.Porthleven_church_pays_tribute_to_soldiers_of_Great_War/
Womens Institute 1925. Surnames mentioned: Mrs Rogers (Penrose), Mrs Rowe (Treeza)
