01/06/2026
📣 Pop-up Archive at 1A Bedford Road, St Ives 📣
St Ives Archive will be opening a Pop-up Archive at 1A Bedford Road, St Ives, between the 12th and 17th of September (Mon-Sat) as part of this year’s St Ives September Festival. The purpose of the Pop-up will be to raise awareness of the wealth of local historical information that is held by St Ives Archive in their Research Centre in Carbis Bay, by making it more accessible to locals and visitors alike in the centre of St Ives during the popular festival.
The focus of the displays at the Pop-up will be the history of the Old Vicarage Flats (which can be found in Street An Pol, next to the Guildhall) and the Archive would welcome visitors who have memories of the building throughout its past history, as well as any memories of Street An Pol (or Shoot/Shute Street as it used to be known).
2023 St Ives Archive Calendars will be available to buy along with a selection of specialist publications. You can also pop in to search our photo database for friends and family, your house or street, school photos, shops and businesses, or anything to do with St Ives history.
The featured photo shows elephants walking up Tregenna Hill c. 1910, probably part of a parade to advertise a circus in town. At the bottom of the hill on the left is Mrs Wall's boot shop, and just out of sight is the newly-opened Cornish Bank, opposite which stands the library. Behind the crowds in Tregenna Place is the Consolidated Bank in High Street.
