William Booth - Revival St Ives (1861 to 1862)
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Address
Weslyan Chapel
, Lower Stennack
St Ives, Cornwall,
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People Involved
William Booth
Site History
The Booths moved to St Ives. By this time the town had grown to 7,000 and still fished for pilchards. During the summer season the fisherman line the cliffs to keep lookout for when the shoals of fish arrived. All the fishermen would be waiting for action. The Booths witnessed a sighting and the boats rushed out to where they had been seen and in half an hour some thirty or forty million fish had been enclosed in nets and were waiting to be landed. Two thirds of the town were employed in landing the fish, putting them in pickle, draining the oil from them and packing them in barrels for transport to the
The meetings in St Ives took place in all the principal places of worship in the town except for the parish church, but that did not stop the Anglicans coming to the meetings. They went on for three and a half months to January 1862 and nearly all the adults of the town went to at least one of the meetings. Over one thousand adults claimed to have been converted, including 28 ships captains and three mine agents.