Happily, the book has proved so successful that, at its launch held there, they were able to present the library with a first cheque for £800 for its photographic archive.
The first in a series of four books that will surely make a significant contribution to the history of Newlyn in particular and of Cornwall in general, by two authors who have lived in Newlyn for the past 13 years, before they came to settle there they had travelled widely; Pamela Lomax as a professor of educational research and Ron Hogg as a consulting engineer.
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Jobs that helped them refine their research skills and to develop their interests in the stories people had to tell about their history, such experience has proved extremely useful as members of the Penwith Local History Group.
While both have contributed to the group's books about Penwith, and Pamela Lomax, who is editor of the Journal of the Cornwall Association of Local Historians, has also written a number of books on educational subjects as well as the definitive biography of the Newlyn School artist Thomas Cooper Gotch, as a pair they are to be congratulated upon "NEWLYN: Before The Artists Came", published by Shear and Hogg Publications at £25, the book is available at the Morrab Library, at Penlee House Gallery and Museum, Penzance, and from Wheal Betsy, Chywoone Hill, Newlyn, Penzance, TR18 5AP. (Cheques payable to Ron Hogg).
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