Hayle Beach Live Cam

The Hayle Mail is a long forgotten newspaper which contained a full account of everything which happened in Hayle, the former Cornish industrial town. There was considerable correspondence from overseas related to local people who had left to seek their fortunes. A regular contributor was Sid Blake, an enterprising Cornishman who kept an hotel in New York to specialise in the passing trade to and from his homeland. All his letters contained a full list of his customers and their movements. The Hayle Mail sadly fell by the wayside and we don't know if Sid ever sent his letters to another paper. He certainly took matters into his own hands and started to produce news sheets of Cornish activities at his New York hotel. Called The Cornish Arms Hotel Bulletin the news of his Cornish guests accompanied many an anecdote in dialect, joke and poem from Cornwall. There were accounts of Cornish football matches with full lists of the team members and their homes in Cornwall. All the meetings of Cornish associations were recorded and a wedding was always on the front page. Sid put in every detail he knew of all the people he mentioned.