PENRYN, CORNWALL

Books on Penryn















Obviously I am going to draw your attention to those written by my cousin, Ernie Warmington!

Most of these books are now out of print, but are sometimes available for sale on eBay or AbeBooks.
 
        TITLE                     AUTHOR      DATE   Publish. Details                  NOTES
"Penryn: the History of an                                                                                                Still one of the best all-round histories
  Ancient Cornish Borough"           Roland J Roddis          1964   D Bradford Barton Ltd                             of the town

"The Book of Falmouth                                                                                                       Large format book covering the story
         and Penryn"                         Bob Dunstan             1975   Barracuda Books                                   of the two towns.

"Memories of Old Penryn"      Rita Tregellas Pope          1983 Truran Public.                         (ISBN: 0 907566421) A book of
                                                     [editor]                                                                         anecdotes and pictures of the town.

"Penryn in old picture postcards" Rita Tregellas Pope     1984 Zaltbommel                 ISBN: 90288-2784-6 One of my favourite Penryn                                                                                                                              books, esp. as it contains a school picture of my dad                                                                                                                                             when he was about 8 years old.
      "The People of Penryn                                                                                        A wealth of information for anyone whose family
in the Seventeenth Century."         June Palmer             1986 Private publication               goes back to the Century - complete with
                                                                                                                                    drawings of homes in the different streets.
"The History of Glasney College" James Whetter              1988 Tabb House                  ISBN: 0-907018-42-4 The more modern       
                                                                                                                                        rendering of story of the College.

"Penryn in the Eighteenth Century   June Palmer             1991 Private publication         Another wealth of information for anyone whose
       - people and politics."                                                                                         family goes back to the Century - complete with 
                                                                                                                                    drawings of homes in the different streets.

"The Lower Fal in old photographs" Peter Gilson               1992 Alan Sutton Publ.        ISBN: 0 7509 0024 5 Covering the area from St
                                                                                                                                Mawes to Flushing -  with maritime pictures.
"Penryn: People - Places -          Ernie Warmington           1999 Private publication     Again in print Ernie's first book - proceeds from
    Postcards - Photographs"                                                                                        sales in aid of Cancer Research, in memory of
                                                                                                                                  his brother Reggie - the cousin I never met!
"Around Penryn"                   Ernie Warmington                  2000 Tempus Publ.          ISBN: 0 7524 2098 4 Ernie's second book, which
                                                                                                                                         takes a wider sweep than his first.
  "The History of Glasney       Thurston C Peter          2007 reprint Kessinger Publ.      This 1903 publication is once again available,
Collegiate Church, Cornwall"                                                                                           but only from the USA via AbeBooks
                                                                                                                                              (it is printed on demand).

"Penryn Revisited"              Ernie Warmington                  2007 Tempus Publ.            ISBN: 978 0 7524 4607 3 Ernie's 3rd book

"Penryn through Time"          Ernie Warmington              2010 Amberley Publ.            ISBN: 978-1-84868-543-7 Ernie 4th book