England / Cornwall - St Ives
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia’s cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper. It should not be confused with St Ive, a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall.
The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and the name St Ives derives from it.
The Sloop Inn, which lies on the wharf was a fisherman's pub for many centuries and is dated to "circa 1312", making it one of the oldest inns in Cornwall. The town was the site of a particularly notable atrocity during the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549. The English provost marshal, Anthony Kingston, came to St Ives and invited the portreeve, John Payne, to lunch at an inn. He asked the portreeve to have the gallows erected during the course of the lunch. Afterwards the portreeve and the Provost Marshal walked down to the gallows; the Provost Marshal then ordered the portreeve to mount the gallows. The portreeve was then hanged for being a "busy rebel".
The seal of St Ives is Argent, an ivy branch overspreading the whole field Vert, with the legend Sigillum Burgi St. Ives in Com. Cornub. 1690.
During the Spanish Armada of 1597, two Spanish ships, a bark and a pinnace, had made their way to St Ives to seek shelter from the storm which had dispersed the Spanish fleet. They were captured by the English warship Warspite of Sir Walter Raleigh leaking from the same storm. The information given by the prisoners was vital on learning the Armada's objectives.
From medieval times fishing was important at St Ives; it was one of the most important fishing ports on the north Cornish coast. The original pier's construction date is unknown but the first reference to St Ives having a pier was in 1478 in William Worcester's 'Itinerary'. The pier was re-built by John Smeaton between 1766 and 1770 after falling into disrepair. It was lengthened at a later date. The octagonal lookout with a cupola belongs to Smeaton's design.
A. K. Hamilton Jenkin describes how the St Ives fisherman strictly observed Sunday as a day of rest. St Ives was a very busy fishing port and seining was the usual method of fishing. Seining was carried out by a set of three boats of different sizes, the largest two carrying seine nets of different sizes. The total number of crew was seventeen or eighteen. However this came to an end in 1924. In the decade 1747–1756 the total number of pilchards dispatched from the four principal Cornish ports of Falmouth, Fowey, Penzance, and St Ives averaged 30,000 hogsheads annually (making a total of 900 million fish). Much greater catches were achieved in 1790 and 1796. In 1847 the exports of pilchards from Cornwall amounted to 40,883 hogsheads or 122 million fish while the greatest number ever taken in one seine was 5,600 hogsheads at St Ives in 1868. The bulk of the catch was exported to Italy: for example, in 1830, 6400 hogsheads were sent to Mediterranean ports. From 1829 to 1838, the yearly average for this trade was 9000 hogsheads.
Once the spring mackerel season ends, the fishing fleet head north. In July 1882, ninety luggers and six hundred men were engaged in the Scottish herring fishery.
While commercial fishing is much reduced, the harbour is still in use, often as well for recreational boating, tourist fishing and day trips to the nearby seal colonies on the Carrack Rocks and other locations along the coast. Recently, a class of Victorian fishing boat unique to St Ives, known as a "jumbo," has been replicated by boatbuilder Jonny Nance to celebrate the town's maritime heritage. Today's jumbos are operated by the St Ives Jumbo Association.
The modern seaside resort developed as a result of the arrival of the St Ives Bay branch line from St Erth, part of the Great Western Railway in 1877. With it came a new generation of Victorian seaside holidaymakers. Much of the town was built during the latter part of the 19th century. The railway, which winds along the cliffs and bays, survived the Beeching cuts and has become a tourist attraction itself.
In 1952, the Royal Navy warship HMS Wave ran aground near the town. The ship was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service. A propeller believed to be from HMS Wave was washed ashore in 2008.
In 1999, the town was the first landfall of the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999. The Tate St Ives displayed an exhibition called As Dark as Light, with art by Yuko Shiraishi, Garry Fabian Miller and local schoolchildren, to celebrate the event. A live BBC programme with the astronomer Patrick Moore was clouded out and the eclipse was missed.
St Ives is on the western shore of St Ives Bay, its harbour sheltered by St Ives Island (a headland) and Smeaton's pier. Close to the harbour, in the old part of the town, the streets are narrow and uneven while its wider streets are in the newer parts of the town on rising ground. The town has four beaches: Porthmeor a surfing beach, Porthgwidden a small sandy cove, Harbour by the working port and Porthminster which has almost half a mile of sand. St Ives has an oceanic climate and has some of the mildest winters and warmest summers in Britain and Northern Europe. It is therefore a popular tourist resort in the summer, and also benefits from an amount of sunshine per year that is above the national average. The South West Coast Path passes through the town.
Early-20th-century figures in St Ives appear in Virginia Woolf's reflections contained in "A Sketch of the Past", from Moments of Being, "...I could fill pages remembering one thing after another. All together made the summer at St. Ives the best beginning to life imaginable. Her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse is said to have been influenced by the view from Talland House where she stayed with her parents on family holidays.
This St Ives is generally believed to be the one referred to in the famous Nursery Rhyme "As I was going to St Ives".
The Cornish language poet Mick Paynter is resident in St Ives.
Modern-day novelist Elizabeth Day, author of The Party, writes many of her novels whilst staying in St Andrews Street in St Ives.
The Ulysses Moore series of books, written by Pierdomenico Baccalario are based in the hypothetical village of Kilmore Cove near Zennor and St Ives.
The St Ives Literature Festival is an annual week-long event, started in 2008, in May. Open air performances are held in Norway Square and the St Ives Arts Club, as well as talks, workshops and live music.
In 1978/1979 the town, the pub The Sloop Inn and Barnoon Cemetery were filmed and appeared in Jerry Jameson's film Raise the Titanic released in 1980.
The Discovery Travel and Living programme Beach Café, featuring Australian chef Michael Smith, was filmed in St Ives.
In 2002, the town came to international prominence during a WWF Storyline between Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. The couple had arranged to see a British doctor in order to give proof to Triple H that Miss. McMahon was in fact pregnant. The British doctor was revealed to be just in fact an actor working for Tourism in St. Ives. Miss McMahon was indeed revealed not to be pregnant.
(Wikipedia)
St Ives (Kornisch Porth Ia [KK], Porth Ya [UCR]) ist eine Stadt in der Grafschaft Cornwall in England und zählt etwa 11.000 Einwohner. Der Name leitet sich von der kornischen Heiligen Ia ab, nach welcher die Kirche im Ort, St Ia’s Church, benannt ist. St Ives ist als beliebter Ferienort und Künstlerkolonie bekannt.
Im Jahr 1877 wurde eine Eisenbahnstrecke von der nahegelegenen Gemeinde St Erth nach St Ives gebaut. Die Stadt wurde danach zum beliebten Ausflugs- und Ferienort, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil sich im Ort selbst zwei große Strände (Porthminster Beach und Porthmeor Beach) und ein weiterer kleiner Strand (Porthgwidden Beach) befinden.
In der Nähe findet man die Carbis Bay und den kilometerlangen Strand der St Ives Bay. Alle Strände sind bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden aufgrund ihrer Lage, ihrer Blicke und ihres feinen weißen Sandes.
Der schottische Maler Thomas Millie Dow (1848–1919) zog 1894 nach St Ives und wohnte dort bis zu seinem Tod. Er erwarb 1895 das Talland House von Leslie Stephen, Vater von Virginia Woolf.
Bernard Leach (1887–1979) und der Japaner Shoji Hamada (1894–1978) begründeten 1920 die Leach Pottery in St Ives. Sie stellten Töpferwaren unter dem Gesichtspunkt westlicher und östlicher Kunst und Philosophie her. Leach arbeitete bis zum Jahr 1972; fünf Jahre später, 1977, zeigte das Victoria and Albert Museum in London seine Arbeiten. Die Leach Pottery ist noch in Betrieb und unterhält ein kleines Museum, das Leachs Werke und die seiner Schüler zeigt.
Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis und Christopher Wood gründeten 1928 in der Stadt eine Künstlerkolonie. 1993 eröffnete die Londoner Tate Gallery einen Ableger in St Ives am Porthmeor Beach mit den Werken der dort wirkenden Künstler wie beispielsweise Ben Nicholson und seine Frau Barbara Hepworth, eine der berühmtesten englischen Bildhauerinnen, deren Werke auch in einem eigenen, idyllisch gelegenen Museum, ihrem früheren (Trewyn-)Studio, zu sehen sind.
In St Ives lebt seit 1974 auch ein bedeutender moderner Maler: Roy Ray (* 1936), der der kornischen Sprache und Landschaft mit seinen Bildern Ausdruck verleiht. 1913 wurde der Komponist George Lloyd in St Ives geboren.
Die britische Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf verbrachte als Kind mit ihrer Familie von 1882 bis 1894 die Sommermonate in St Ives. Woolf, die eine sehr unglückliche Jugend erlebte, widmete St Ives und Cornwall später den Roman Jacobs Zimmer. Auch ihr Roman Die Fahrt zum Leuchtturm ist – obwohl auf der Hebrideninsel Skye angesiedelt – eine Reminiszenz an St Ives. Das frühere Sommerhaus von Woolfs Vater Leslie Stephen, Talland House, liegt in der Nähe von Porthminster Beach. Es war von 1882 bis 1895 im Besitz der Familie Stephen.
In St Ives spielen auch einige Romane wie zum Beispiel Die Muschelsucher der auch in Deutschland populären Schriftstellerin Rosamunde Pilcher, deren Geburtsort Lelant nicht weit entfernt ist. St Ives heißt in ihren Büchern Porthkerris und diente oft als Kulisse für die in Deutschland ebenfalls bekannten Romanverfilmungen.
(Wikipedia)
England / Cornwall - St Ives
St Ives (Cornish: Porth Ia, meaning "St Ia’s cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commercially dependent on fishing. The decline in fishing, however, caused a shift in commercial emphasis, and the town is now primarily a popular seaside resort, notably achieving the title of Best UK Seaside Town from the British Travel Awards in both 2010 and 2011. St Ives was incorporated by Royal Charter in 1639. St Ives has become renowned for its number of artists. It was named best seaside town of 2007 by The Guardian newspaper. It should not be confused with St Ive, a village and civil parish in south-east Cornwall.
The origin of St Ives is attributed in legend to the arrival of the Irish saint Ia of Cornwall, in the 5th century. The parish church bears her name, and the name St Ives derives from it.
The Sloop Inn, which lies on the wharf was a fisherman's pub for many centuries and is dated to "circa 1312", making it one of the oldest inns in Cornwall. The town was the site of a particularly notable atrocity during the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549. The English provost marshal, Anthony Kingston, came to St Ives and invited the portreeve, John Payne, to lunch at an inn. He asked the portreeve to have the gallows erected during the course of the lunch. Afterwards the portreeve and the Provost Marshal walked down to the gallows; the Provost Marshal then ordered the portreeve to mount the gallows. The portreeve was then hanged for being a "busy rebel".
The seal of St Ives is Argent, an ivy branch overspreading the whole field Vert, with the legend Sigillum Burgi St. Ives in Com. Cornub. 1690.
During the Spanish Armada of 1597, two Spanish ships, a bark and a pinnace, had made their way to St Ives to seek shelter from the storm which had dispersed the Spanish fleet. They were captured by the English warship Warspite of Sir Walter Raleigh leaking from the same storm. The information given by the prisoners was vital on learning the Armada's objectives.
From medieval times fishing was important at St Ives; it was one of the most important fishing ports on the north Cornish coast. The original pier's construction date is unknown but the first reference to St Ives having a pier was in 1478 in William Worcester's 'Itinerary'. The pier was re-built by John Smeaton between 1766 and 1770 after falling into disrepair. It was lengthened at a later date. The octagonal lookout with a cupola belongs to Smeaton's design.
A. K. Hamilton Jenkin describes how the St Ives fisherman strictly observed Sunday as a day of rest. St Ives was a very busy fishing port and seining was the usual method of fishing. Seining was carried out by a set of three boats of different sizes, the largest two carrying seine nets of different sizes. The total number of crew was seventeen or eighteen. However this came to an end in 1924. In the decade 1747–1756 the total number of pilchards dispatched from the four principal Cornish ports of Falmouth, Fowey, Penzance, and St Ives averaged 30,000 hogsheads annually (making a total of 900 million fish). Much greater catches were achieved in 1790 and 1796. In 1847 the exports of pilchards from Cornwall amounted to 40,883 hogsheads or 122 million fish while the greatest number ever taken in one seine was 5,600 hogsheads at St Ives in 1868. The bulk of the catch was exported to Italy: for example, in 1830, 6400 hogsheads were sent to Mediterranean ports. From 1829 to 1838, the yearly average for this trade was 9000 hogsheads.
Once the spring mackerel season ends, the fishing fleet head north. In July 1882, ninety luggers and six hundred men were engaged in the Scottish herring fishery.
While commercial fishing is much reduced, the harbour is still in use, often as well for recreational boating, tourist fishing and day trips to the nearby seal colonies on the Carrack Rocks and other locations along the coast. Recently, a class of Victorian fishing boat unique to St Ives, known as a "jumbo," has been replicated by boatbuilder Jonny Nance to celebrate the town's maritime heritage. Today's jumbos are operated by the St Ives Jumbo Association.
The modern seaside resort developed as a result of the arrival of the St Ives Bay branch line from St Erth, part of the Great Western Railway in 1877. With it came a new generation of Victorian seaside holidaymakers. Much of the town was built during the latter part of the 19th century. The railway, which winds along the cliffs and bays, survived the Beeching cuts and has become a tourist attraction itself.
In 1952, the Royal Navy warship HMS Wave ran aground near the town. The ship was later salvaged, repaired and returned to service. A propeller believed to be from HMS Wave was washed ashore in 2008.
In 1999, the town was the first landfall of the solar eclipse of 11 August 1999. The Tate St Ives displayed an exhibition called As Dark as Light, with art by Yuko Shiraishi, Garry Fabian Miller and local schoolchildren, to celebrate the event. A live BBC programme with the astronomer Patrick Moore was clouded out and the eclipse was missed.
St Ives is on the western shore of St Ives Bay, its harbour sheltered by St Ives Island (a headland) and Smeaton's pier. Close to the harbour, in the old part of the town, the streets are narrow and uneven while its wider streets are in the newer parts of the town on rising ground. The town has four beaches: Porthmeor a surfing beach, Porthgwidden a small sandy cove, Harbour by the working port and Porthminster which has almost half a mile of sand. St Ives has an oceanic climate and has some of the mildest winters and warmest summers in Britain and Northern Europe. It is therefore a popular tourist resort in the summer, and also benefits from an amount of sunshine per year that is above the national average. The South West Coast Path passes through the town.
Early-20th-century figures in St Ives appear in Virginia Woolf's reflections contained in "A Sketch of the Past", from Moments of Being, "...I could fill pages remembering one thing after another. All together made the summer at St. Ives the best beginning to life imaginable. Her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse is said to have been influenced by the view from Talland House where she stayed with her parents on family holidays.
This St Ives is generally believed to be the one referred to in the famous Nursery Rhyme "As I was going to St Ives".
The Cornish language poet Mick Paynter is resident in St Ives.
Modern-day novelist Elizabeth Day, author of The Party, writes many of her novels whilst staying in St Andrews Street in St Ives.
The Ulysses Moore series of books, written by Pierdomenico Baccalario are based in the hypothetical village of Kilmore Cove near Zennor and St Ives.
The St Ives Literature Festival is an annual week-long event, started in 2008, in May. Open air performances are held in Norway Square and the St Ives Arts Club, as well as talks, workshops and live music.
In 1978/1979 the town, the pub The Sloop Inn and Barnoon Cemetery were filmed and appeared in Jerry Jameson's film Raise the Titanic released in 1980.
The Discovery Travel and Living programme Beach Café, featuring Australian chef Michael Smith, was filmed in St Ives.
In 2002, the town came to international prominence during a WWF Storyline between Stephanie McMahon and Triple H. The couple had arranged to see a British doctor in order to give proof to Triple H that Miss. McMahon was in fact pregnant. The British doctor was revealed to be just in fact an actor working for Tourism in St. Ives. Miss McMahon was indeed revealed not to be pregnant.
(Wikipedia)
St Ives (Kornisch Porth Ia [KK], Porth Ya [UCR]) ist eine Stadt in der Grafschaft Cornwall in England und zählt etwa 11.000 Einwohner. Der Name leitet sich von der kornischen Heiligen Ia ab, nach welcher die Kirche im Ort, St Ia’s Church, benannt ist. St Ives ist als beliebter Ferienort und Künstlerkolonie bekannt.
Im Jahr 1877 wurde eine Eisenbahnstrecke von der nahegelegenen Gemeinde St Erth nach St Ives gebaut. Die Stadt wurde danach zum beliebten Ausflugs- und Ferienort, nicht zuletzt deshalb, weil sich im Ort selbst zwei große Strände (Porthminster Beach und Porthmeor Beach) und ein weiterer kleiner Strand (Porthgwidden Beach) befinden.
In der Nähe findet man die Carbis Bay und den kilometerlangen Strand der St Ives Bay. Alle Strände sind bereits mehrfach ausgezeichnet worden aufgrund ihrer Lage, ihrer Blicke und ihres feinen weißen Sandes.
Der schottische Maler Thomas Millie Dow (1848–1919) zog 1894 nach St Ives und wohnte dort bis zu seinem Tod. Er erwarb 1895 das Talland House von Leslie Stephen, Vater von Virginia Woolf.
Bernard Leach (1887–1979) und der Japaner Shoji Hamada (1894–1978) begründeten 1920 die Leach Pottery in St Ives. Sie stellten Töpferwaren unter dem Gesichtspunkt westlicher und östlicher Kunst und Philosophie her. Leach arbeitete bis zum Jahr 1972; fünf Jahre später, 1977, zeigte das Victoria and Albert Museum in London seine Arbeiten. Die Leach Pottery ist noch in Betrieb und unterhält ein kleines Museum, das Leachs Werke und die seiner Schüler zeigt.
Ben Nicholson, Alfred Wallis und Christopher Wood gründeten 1928 in der Stadt eine Künstlerkolonie. 1993 eröffnete die Londoner Tate Gallery einen Ableger in St Ives am Porthmeor Beach mit den Werken der dort wirkenden Künstler wie beispielsweise Ben Nicholson und seine Frau Barbara Hepworth, eine der berühmtesten englischen Bildhauerinnen, deren Werke auch in einem eigenen, idyllisch gelegenen Museum, ihrem früheren (Trewyn-)Studio, zu sehen sind.
In St Ives lebt seit 1974 auch ein bedeutender moderner Maler: Roy Ray (* 1936), der der kornischen Sprache und Landschaft mit seinen Bildern Ausdruck verleiht. 1913 wurde der Komponist George Lloyd in St Ives geboren.
Die britische Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf verbrachte als Kind mit ihrer Familie von 1882 bis 1894 die Sommermonate in St Ives. Woolf, die eine sehr unglückliche Jugend erlebte, widmete St Ives und Cornwall später den Roman Jacobs Zimmer. Auch ihr Roman Die Fahrt zum Leuchtturm ist – obwohl auf der Hebrideninsel Skye angesiedelt – eine Reminiszenz an St Ives. Das frühere Sommerhaus von Woolfs Vater Leslie Stephen, Talland House, liegt in der Nähe von Porthminster Beach. Es war von 1882 bis 1895 im Besitz der Familie Stephen.
In St Ives spielen auch einige Romane wie zum Beispiel Die Muschelsucher der auch in Deutschland populären Schriftstellerin Rosamunde Pilcher, deren Geburtsort Lelant nicht weit entfernt ist. St Ives heißt in ihren Büchern Porthkerris und diente oft als Kulisse für die in Deutschland ebenfalls bekannten Romanverfilmungen.
(Wikipedia)