Fancy Fish and Chips in Newlyn? - buy the lot as Jewell's is up for auction!

Brill news! Newlyn's sole remaining Fish and Chip shop, the iconic Jewells, is up for auction later this month.  Ideally plaiced in the heart of town, Dave Jewell has haddock enough and decided to put the shop on the market. Herring the news, many will be whiting to see that a new owner is a dab hand with the batter and will continue to keep the fat fryers hot and the fish fresh!

Jewells Fish & Chips, The Strand, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5HJ 

So, net yourself a bargain if you've a spare 100,000 squid in your pocket and skate on over to the Penventon Park Hotel, Redruth on the 23rd of February, rays your hand to put on a bid when Miller's will auction the business to the highest bidder. 

Falmouth Coastguard SOS - sign the petition!

Add your signature to the online petition in support of Falmouth Coastguard and keep the station a major operational and training centre of excellence operating 24/7. 

Signing the petition will help ensure the future of the station - visit the web page here - further information and comments from others can be found onthe campaign's Facebook page here.

Cornish Pirates seek stadium improvements on their home ground.

 Mennaye Field, home of the Cornish Pirates Rugby Club is in the middle of a big decision making process with regard to increasing the seating capacity, at present served with the aid of a local scaffolding company.......

 151 years old this year, St Just bakers Warrens with their new pasty logo in their Newlyn shop front........

 scourge of the red mullet aboard a beamer, stained by the ink from a cuttlefish........

 an 11.2 kilo turbot from the ChloeT.........

 one of those soles not too sure which side up to be.......

 while the CEFAS sole queen searches for the otoliths.........

bright looking megrim soles from the William Sampson making good money with the buyers this morning.

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!