Penwith Local History Group
Penwith Local History Group, Newlyn, Cornwall
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We research the fascinating history of West Penwith by working with original sources as much as possible. We publish our findings every two or three years.


The Morrab Library showing the new extension
The Morrab Library showing the new extension.
Photo Glyn Richards
On this Day 30th April 1884

Playing with Fire in Tregeseal

Picture this: three little children playing outside at Tregeseal. Imagine the spring sunshine, the usual childish boasts and claims - and that sense of limitless possibility and freedom, the peculiar quality of those moments in early childhood when no grown-ups are about................


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Our new publication is now available:

Beyond the Bookshelves. A Publication by the Penwith Local History Group
"Beyond the Bookshelves"
Edited by Sally Corbet

price £15.00
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The Penwith Papers

Old Ovens in West Cornwall

Many old houses in the far west of Cornwall once had large open hearths but the ovens in the wall beside them were often blocked up and forgotten. The drawing of one in the old Zennor Wayside Museum shows the hole for the oven in the wall above the bench on the left (figure 1). These ovens date from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century.



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