St Ives - where to stay, what to do?

[two sheds]

Well those of us who live here know the jewel that is Camborne

 

[oryx]

go to Barbara Hepworth's house]

Would second that - it's very interesting and the outdoor bit is lovely.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

If you ain't driving, you won't have to pay about £4 to park on threat of wheelclamps everywhere nice around the coast you want to stop, so thats ok. If you don't 'get' West Cornwall, I suppose plenty of it is a dump, but its' magical really. Hope for reasonable weather(ie no rain)& enjoy.

 

[ringo]

Used to go every year as a kid. The Tate and Hepworth's house are a must. The beach in front of the Tate is good for learning to surf. Don't forget to get a sweatshirt from Fat Willy's Surf Shack My boss wears one around the office with irony, cheers me up every day.

 

[editor]

I'm sure you won't be quite so fascinated, but I'll be posting up a piece about the wonderful St Erth station later tonight (it's the junction for the St Ives branch).

And here it is:
http://www.urban75.org/blog/st-erth-for-st-ives-railway-station-a-country-junction/

 

[editor]

Cracking set of archive pics here

Found Colour Snapshots of a Bygone St Ives (1958-1960) - Flashbak

 

[blossie33]

Great photos but it had me puzzled as it was nothing like the St Ives I remembered from family holidays years ago
Then I noticed they are of St Ives, Cambs not Cornwall

 

[Mrs D]

Great photos but it had me puzzled as it was nothing like the St Ives I remembered from family holidays years ago
Then I noticed they are of St Ives, Cambs not Cornwall

Not far from Cambourne, Cambs too.

 

[Mrs D]

I note from wiki that St Ives Cambs was renamed thus after a dead Persian monk they found in the town a thousand years ago. Surely the only interesting thing about the place.

 

[Ground Elder]

This thread has entertained me all over again When I lived in St Ives it would empty of tourists after the summer and I could be the only person on Porthmeor. Now, since the Tate and the invention of 'cool' Cornwall, it is rammed all year Wish you'd all fuck off to Camborne, like I suggested

 

[editor]

Some archive pics from a lovely holiday with eme two decades ago. Blimey.

Photos of St Ives twenty years ago – beach, harbour, countryside and sea scenes from April 2000 -

With the coronavirus lock-down meaning there's little prospect of any travelling in the foreseeable future, I thought I'd have a delve through my photo archives. Here's a selection of 25 photos from a lovely holiday spent in the Cornwall seaside town of St Ives back in April 2000. The branch...

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