Despite its small size the village had a thriving tourist industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Local traders produced visitor's guides…

Portal House is one of the oldest buildings in the village. Current research on its origins suggests that it may have been built as a private house…

Many of the views in the archive are taken from postcards, especially of the Bay which was a very popular postcard subject. In this collection we have…

In 2013 the archive acquired a book of photographs of the village which had been collected by and featured members of the Madge family who ran the…