built on an area previously known as :”The Reens” (Cornish “rhyn” = hill)
Coastguard Station – 1866 a terrace of 6 six houses with a central building to house the life-saving apparatus.
aerial view of part of Peverell Terrace
aerial view of part of Peverell Terrace
Tre-Pol-Pen (later An Mordros Hotel)
The 1939 Register lists, in “Peverill Terrace”, Thomas J HOCKING a fish merchant, Emily J HOCKING “Board House Keeper”.
Throughout the 1940s -1950s it was run by the HOCKING family. “1945 onwards, they used to give super children’s parties.” [ECR]. People remember Mr HOCKING running th ehotel with his daughter, Ruth HOCKING.
At sometime it was a home for the elderly.
In 1967, in the week of the Torrey Canyon disaster, the Phillips family from London moved in, and, within approximately a year, changed the building into a hotel. While Mrs Phillips ran the hotel, Mr Paul Phillips worked for Dean Development’s, later he became a driving instructor. In 1971 the Phillips family moved away to live in Helston.
Mr & Mrs KELYNACK bought An Mordros in 1993 and in 2022 it is still being run by their daughter, Sandra KELYNACK.
Atlantic Inn
Christopher St John Sprigg, a renowned author who stayed. in 1935, at the Guesthouse “Atlantic View” (now The Atlantic Inn, Peverell Terrace, Porthleven) is commemorate on a plaque outside the pub.
Sprigg, who also wrote under the name Christopher Caudwell, spent almost three months in 1935, in Porthleven, when completing his classic work “Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry”.
At the time, the pub , on Peverell Terrace, was a
guesthouse called “Atlantic View”, owned and run by Mr and Mrs Matthews.
Sprigg is said to have fitted in well with the local community
– in a letter his brother, he commented on his having been “feted”- and when not writing and reading, he spent time fishing, walking and touring in the area. He was also a regular at the Ship Inn.
On his return to London, Sprigg went to live in the East End and worked among the community there.
A dedicated Marxist, when the Spanish Civil War broke out he helped take out ambulances to Spain and joined the International Brigade.
Two years after his 1935 stay at “Atlantic View, Porthleven, he was killed at the battle of Jarama on 12 February 1937.
The plaque unveiling was by Dr James Whetter, director of the Roseland Institute, and the Porthleven Old Cornwall Society, to coincide with the centenary of Sprigg’s birth.
Porthleven Museum 