Newlyn's first school

An aged schoolmaster is noted at Newlyn in 1829, but the location of his school is unclear. The will of Nicholas Kelynack of 3 January 1854 noted a 'school-room loft and everything thereunto belonging... in the place known by the name of Fradgan' in Street an Nowan near Gwavas Quay. In 1858, this make-shift schoolroom was replaced by a new Wesleyan day school, known as Fradgan School. Built on a garden of less than a quarter of an acre, which Thomas Curnow had once cultivated, this was the most southerly building in Street an Nowan. The harbour slip below was later named Champion’s Slip after John Champion, headmaster there.