Albatross Art

4 Commercial Road

Porthleven

Cornwall

TR13 9JD

01326 562828

Porthleven, Cornwall

Porthleven 2010 Calendar

Featuring twelve new photographic scenes of the delightful harbour of Porthleven, wire bound, size A4, (about 11.5 x 8 inches, opens to 16 by 11.5 inches.)

£7.95

From a painting by Sarah Holroyd, a solid ceramic mug (approx half pint)

£5.65

From a painting by Sarah Holroyd, a solid ceramic mug (approx half pint)

£5.65

Porthleven is a delightful little harbour town in Cornwall and England's most southerly port. It sits in a tucked away corner of Mount's bay between the peninsula's of The Lizard and Land's End. Traditionally a fishing harbour Porthleven is now a relatively unspoilt port and a favoured placed for the discerning visitor to stay or visit.

History: Porth Luan, as it was called before the seventeenth century, began as little more than a marshy beach with a stream running across it and a few wooden fishermen's huts. What is believed to be the oldest building in the town, the Ship Inn, is probably late seventeenth century or Georgian but there is little evidence of the growth of the town until the harbour was built in the early nineteenth century. A large fishing fleet of, perhaps, as many as a hundred small sailing vessels, became based in the harbour and fished for pilchards, mackerel and so on in Mounts Bay. The harbour was also used extensively for the export of china clay and tin and the import of coal, limestone (which was burnt in the lime kiln on Breageside and then used as fertiliser or in building) and timber. So it is during the Victorian period that  Porthleven was at it's most prosperous. With the gradual decline of mining in Cornwall, and the disappearance of Pilchards from her shores, Porthleven soon declined and has only recently become prosperous again with the arrival of tourists in the last few decades.