Herbert Victor - Mousehole artist.

There is an interesting story on the Newlyn.info web site about a watercolour painting by TH Victor, a Mousehole artist whose painting of the North Pier with a steamer alongside has been spotted on the walls of houses in many TV programmes over the years.

According to the article, the house in the middle of the picture is 34 Fore Street - if the story is referring to the house with the granite steps running up the side then this property is, in fact, 68 Fore Street, to the west is 72 and sharing the same entrance as 68 is 64 Fore Street. One explanation for the missing number could be that the side entrance to 68, which gives access to what was the net loft, may have been used as accommodation at the time.

The building that is 64/68 has a single, wide entrance, protected heavy wooden doors at either end of a shared passage allowing access to the front doors of both houses. Inside, there is an open courtyard with one of the best preserved pilchard cellars in Newlyn with many original features including the blue elvin granite pebble floor. The net loft section at the rear of 68 is supported by a number of tall granite stone pillars.

For much of the 1900s both properties were one and lived in by a Miss Jacka - a well known seamstress who provided many Newlyn girls (well off ones!) with wedding dresses copied from latest fashions from the cover of Vogue (from Freda Hichens). She had a less than tolerant view of any tourists who parked in front of the downstairs kitchen with its huge fireplace so restricting her view and would appear at the door brandishing her broom demanding that they move on!

The house, originally thought to be thatched, was built around 1700, but the inside walls suggest that this may have been based on an earlier cob walled dwelling.

In the painting, the window just to the right of the stone steps (originally to the pantry) may possibly be a candidate for the smallest glass window in the UK!

100 years on and the Mission celebrates with a centenary meal.

Mission Skipper, Keith Dixon at the helm.

The grandaughter of Nora Bolitho and two dozen guests celebrated Newlyn Mission's centenary in style with a fund raising feast of local fish followed by local beef on Friday evening. An auction of donated gifts helped raise additional mission funds - while all hands tucked into a superb spread prepared by local chef, Sanjay Kumar.

The Mission was built on behalf of Miss Nora Bolitho, of Laregan, at Street-an-Nowan, Newlyn in 1911, to provide a permanent base for the work of the mission that had been operating in Newlyn since 1892.

No flats today guys.

With no beam trawl fish on the market the grading machine is used to sort fish from the netter Ben My Chree........

a haddock races past the grading criteria........

and gets flipped into a waiting box (hence these machines are known as 'flip graders')........

where the boxes are then weighed ready for auction.....

top quality fish from Mr Nowell again.......

some boxes find themselves a long way from home.......

only a couple of sharks on the market this morning.......

bright whiting eyes from the BMC's trip of big white fish........

these fish won't be headed for the auction at Newlyn, instead, they are Plymouth bound........

the Charisma takes a berth at the ice plant.......

before making ready for the waiting transport.

Jack Abry II aground off the west coast of Scotland.

Lorient registered Jack Abry II has run aground off Raffin on her way to Lochinver in Scotland. The 14 crew and skipper were taken off by two helicopters. The boat fishes for deepwater fish like coley.

Latest images from BBC Scotland - Ouch!

Latest Cornish ring netter nears completion.

Photo courtesy of Edwin Hosking/Ocean Fish.

Buccaneer Boats at Camborne are nearing the completion of their latest in a series of vessels built for Ocean Fish. The B46 type hull will shortly be deliverd to Newlyn where the final fitting out, including the installation of the wheelhouse, will be carried out alongside the Mary Williams quay. Full story and pictures coming soon.

Monday last day of the month, will they make a million?

Big boat, big monk......

big cuttles, big fishing for the Cornishman again........

and the Ocean Spray didn't do too bad netting either......

only a handful of blackjacks (coley or saithe) for the Gary M......

let's hope with the increased revenue from the big landings this month the harbour can afford to replace the neon tubes in the darker corners of the fish market........

fish transport at the ready alongside the Cornish Ice Company.......

plenty of harbour boxes, though the guys are still keen to know where the 400 boxes that have gone missing are now located as is Roland Ballieul from Duncannon whose box is in view!.......

one mouthful - typical seal damge where the unpopular animal contents itself with a single mouthful from the belly of the biggest fish......

cracking monk tails from an inshore boat will make good money........

running in Cornishman black cuttle ink creates all sorts of shapes.........

with dozens of her boxes still to be cleaned........

take-off time for a marauding gull.

Ex-Navy MFV and Dunkirk veteran sinks in Plymouth Harbour.

The Yarmouth Navigator seen last summer anchored in the River Dart.
Photo courtesy of Martin Johns.

Falmouth Coastguard, Brixham Coastguard, Navy and the Border Agency were all involved in a yacht sinking in Plymouth Harbour last night. Three people are believed to have left the sinking vessel, a fourth is still unaccounted for.