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Stable Hobba past history |
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
Q. Pardon my ignorance but could someone tell me what was at Stable Hobba prior to the industrial estate?
A. Stable Hobba has a long industrial history. In the 18th century there was a smelting works there. The port of Penzance lies at the hub of a half circle of mining areas and smelting works were early established on both sides of the town; at Chyandour and at Stable Hobba, the Trereife Works. The Trereife Works date back to before 1732 as in that year they were purchased and run by William Tonkin and later by Uriah Tonkin. By 1805 the Batten family were in control.
About the middle of the century R R Mitchell, a Marazion mining entrepreneur, took over and rebuilt and enlarged the premises. After his death in 1872, a Redruth mining adventurer and banker succeeded, but mining was on the decline in the face of foreign competition and in 1891 he combined with the Consolidated Tin Smelting Company, involving Bolitho interests.
By now the writing was on the wall and the smelting works closed in 1896. Chyandour closed in 1912. Early in the 20th century a firm called Genetosan set up a business here, their main product was a tonic wine called Sanatogen - very well known in the 1930s. More recently there was a fish meal factory at Stable Hobba and this developed into the site as we know it today.
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