Other Battens

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.

My sister, Joy Batten, published a collection of photographs, Blessings of the Light at Newlyn Harbour (ISBN: 0-955 1572-0-X), in 2005.