The view from the bridge looking along Bridge Street towards the centre of town. The old Jacobean house is in the left foreground. Oliver Cromwell's statue is on Market Hill. Cromwell farmed in St. Ives as a young man from 1631 to 1636. It later became the sheep market.
Old photos show it full of sheep pens .
Hidden beneath the statue is the sealed well that once supplied St Ives with its water supply. By then it was no longer being used as its water was contaminated, and piped water had recently been introduced. Cromwell's statue, as seen here, keeps an eye over it all. There's another page of market photos, and there's a local shops page too. The Mill .