John's Stories consist of 14 parts making up a lifetime's recollection of Porthleven.
John shared these on facebook and the comments received are included.
Porthleven Museum created the interactive books with the materials supplied. We have kept as close to John's original production as possible.
Story 1 http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/johnstory1/index.html
Story...
Alfie Pascoe's Index of Personal Archives
Just by viewing this index covering decades of records kept by Alfie you will understand why we were not able to digitise everything.
If Alfie were alive today I am sure he would be fully supportive and involved with this project.
To view the index
http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/flipapascoeindex/index.html
Books about Porthleven
Many books have been written about Porthleven and its people, some of which are listed below.
Some are available locally and some on Amazon.
If you have written a book about Porthleven why not add it to the Museums listing
Seagull Morning - The Cornwall of my Childhood by Elsie Balms
Touching Tomorrow - a sequel to Seagull Morning by Elsie Balme
Act of Parliament 1811
Harbour and Dock Acts of Parliament
There are 5 books in this collection
1811 http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/flip1811/index.html
Porthleven Town Trail is produced by Porthleven Community Interest Company, formed in late 2012 to look at how to mitigate the impacts of being a coastal community.
To view the Trail E-Book
http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/flipporthleventowntrail/index.html
To visit Porthleven CIC website
A Brief History of Porthleven and its Historic Harbour
It is not easy to produce a short booklet based on a brief history of Porthleven and its historic harbour but here are a few images and a couple of pages of text in an attempt to do so.
http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/flipharbourbook2015/index.html
As always please remember...
Porthleven 120 years of Soccer
On Saturday 9th July 2016 120 years of Porthleven soccer was celebrated in Out of the Blue, the window to Porthleven Museum's images of historic life in the village.
A widescreen presentation of the history was created for the day. As usual the images are now available in one of the museums volumes located at
http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/flip120yearssoccer/index.html
As...
Fishermen and Boats - part of Alfie Pascoes records.
Alfie Pascoe was a person who plaid a key role in the development and history of Porthleven.
He kept meticulous records of everything he was involved and interested in and because of this we think his recordings of history as it was happening should appear under his collection.
We were very lucky to have been given access to all his records by Christopher and Pam Pascoe.
Boat Building Porthleven 1936
Another hand written journal by Oliver Boatbuilders Porthleven.
A record from 1936
Part of the Denis Oliver Records
Volume 1, 2 and 3 of 3 Volumes consisting of double pages
http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/boatbuilding1936/flipvol1/index.html
Boat Building Journal 1969 Volumes 1 of 5
This is a complete copy of a hand written journal/ledger of produced in 1969 by William (Bill) Oliver, Denis Oliver's father who lived at Torleven Porthleven. He was the eldest of the two Oliver's brothers, well known boat builders. It is a unique record consisting of around 100 pages broken down into consecutive volumes.
To view volume 1 follow the link
Unique Journal created 1971 to 1972 by William Oliver
10 Volumes including index
As far as we are aware this is a totally unique record, a hand written Journal taking two years to complete by William (Bill) Oliver who lived in Torleven, Porthleven. He was the eldest of the two Oliver brothers, well known boat builders.
This was donated to the museum by Denis Oliver, son of Bill.
It starts with the early years and develops into...
Old Porthleven - Women's Institute scrapbook history of Porthleven
A brief look at Old Porthleven - Women's Institute Scrapbook History of Porthleven
to open this book go to http://www.porthlevenmuseum.org.uk/oldporthlevenbook/index.html
Although you will see a price of £1 alongside this book, it is free to view.
1948 West Cornwall Hospital Management Recruitment Nurses
Rosewarne's Garage 1948 Advert
Porthleven Pig Club 1949
Cornish Champions at Bath and West Show 1950 T G RICHARDS
DEATH of Richard Kitto RICHARDS in Transvaal 1911
Newspaper cutting of DEATH of Richard Kitto RICHARDS in Transvaal 1911
Death of John Cowles TREGEMBO 1897
News papers cuttings reporting on illness and death of John TREGEMBO
Obituary Marjorie HALL 2017
Obituary of Marjorie HALL in Falmouth Packet