My father, Ben Batten, born in Newlyn in 1912, was a Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow and wrote a number of books about Newlyn and its history:
- Newlyn Towers, Fishermen and Methodists 1800-1978, an Outline History (1978)
- Newlyn, Penzance and the Pirates - an Illustrated Rugby History (1978)
- School on the Hill (1979)
- Newlyn Boyhood (1979)
- Three Score Years and Ten - A History of The Penzance County School and The Humphry Davy Grammar School 1910-1980 (1980)
- Newlyn Heritage (1980)
- Walk Newlyn With Me (1981, revised in 1984)
- Newlyn of Yesterday (1983)
- Old Newlyn Speech (1984, with drawings by Michael Praed).
Unfortunately, all are hard to find today.