There is a handsome building on Tregenna Place in St Ives that lurks hidden behind the garish fascia of a Wetherspoon’s pub.
It is the former headquarters of the Cornish village’s most illustrious shipping company, Hain Line.
In fact, the pub — The Hain Line — goes by the name of the business that was sold this time 100 years ago to the rather better-known Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Co (P&O).
