Chatting away during a wonderful walk of 2.5 hours in St Ives learing a lot about the city, its habitants, its history.



Main industries until up to the Great War: fishing and mining
Fishers' lodges at the waterfront: no drinking
Cornwall and Wales: strong Methodist traditions (mainly because of high level of corruption in "mainstream" church
Civil war: Cornwall supported the king, Charles I, while St. Ives the parliament
Street names: English Cornish mixture
Reasons for artistic community / tradition: light and railway
Geography: cut off from England, but open to the world.