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St. Ives, Cornwall
This was taken in "Pudding Bag Lane" (Capel Court). The area was demolished (to the everlasting shame of the town council) in 1936 to make way for a car park. There was much anger at the time, but the authorities in the name of "slum clearance" called in the bulldozers anyway. Newlyn (and Mousehole) would have suffered a similar fate if WWII had not intervened.
In the view of local historian Cyril Noall, in an article the St Ives Times and Echo, June 25 1982, the Town Council helped to accelerate the decline in the close-knit fishing community; it swept away many substandard dwellings without making any attempt to restore or rehabilitate them, and took advantage of the Act to create, at little expense to itself, the present Harbour Car Park on the site of the old Pudding Bag Lane, Church Place and Norway properties.
The old fisherman in the scene was known locally for carving "joannies". These were painted wooden dolls fashioned from sections of broken oars. There are several examples in the St. Ives Museum.
St. Ives, Cornwall
This was taken in "Pudding Bag Lane" (Capel Court). The area was demolished (to the everlasting shame of the town council) in 1936 to make way for a car park. There was much anger at the time, but the authorities in the name of "slum clearance" called in the bulldozers anyway. Newlyn (and Mousehole) would have suffered a similar fate if WWII had not intervened.
In the view of local historian Cyril Noall, in an article the St Ives Times and Echo, June 25 1982, the Town Council helped to accelerate the decline in the close-knit fishing community; it swept away many substandard dwellings without making any attempt to restore or rehabilitate them, and took advantage of the Act to create, at little expense to itself, the present Harbour Car Park on the site of the old Pudding Bag Lane, Church Place and Norway properties.
The old fisherman in the scene was known locally for carving "joannies". These were painted wooden dolls fashioned from sections of broken oars. There are several examples in the St. Ives Museum.