Cornwall Yesteryear, Today & Dreckly

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How A Cornish Village Community Organised Its Leisure Some Sixty Years Ago

Swing High, Swing Low by Eve Northey So what is everyone doing during this lockdown? Why not email admin@cornwallyesteryear.com and tell us what your community is doing please? Altarnun, the parish in which I was born ten years before the beginning of the Second World War, has its western side firmly embedded in Bodmin Moor, […]

CADGWITH COVE

On the extreme south coast of CornwallLies the picturesque Cadgwith CoveIt’s the home of fishermen’s familiesA very special treasure trove The fishing fleet is centralIt’s the heart of village lifeBut after centuries of fishingTheir future sits on the blade of a knife Their precious fishing loftsAre up for sale and God forbidThese hardworking fearless familiesShould […]

A Bit of Chat with Maid Lowenna more about Feythurr

Feythurr ubbum bin zackly since tha awld lecksuns, tha chap ee vawted fun dedun git in saw ee bin taisy uz a snaake ever since, goin on all day bout tha country goin ta tha dogs und ow iz penshun dawnt gaw nawhere, I tellee sum days I’d sooner be a donkey in a sand […]

Bit Of Chat With Maid Lowenna – Feythur’s In Tha Village Band

Now, Feythur dedun zackly blaw in tha village band, knaw, ee banged tha great drum. Uz you da knaw ee idden very big, ees like Zennor gawts a bit short in tha shanks. Well cannee imagun when you da see un cummum down tha rawd tha drum da look uz if a gawt two liddle […]

A Stroll Thro’ Lanson – Phillip Gidley King with Rob Tremain

Some folks in Cornwall today regret the fact that our young people have to leave the county to seek work and make their mark in the world. This is nothing new…. Philip Gidley King was born in Southgate Street, Launceston, in 1758. His father, a draper, married a daughter of John Gidley (an attorney of […]

Stroll Through Launceston With Rob Tremain – Eaten By Cannibals

Cornwall’s churches are a wonderful source of material for the local historian, and the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Launceston is no exception. A family that was once prominent in the town is now remembered by its memorials in the Church. In the days before the National Health Service and the Trades Description Act, […]

Where The Phoenicians Weren’t by Craig Weatherhill

This article was written in the 1990s by the great Cornish writer and scholar Craig Weatherhill who sadly died in 2020. Any article or book written by Craig would have been very well researched and his opinions based on his findings, not made up. Even in this more historically enlightened age, so many still believe […]

Tinners’ Celebrations – Yow Whidden or White Thursday by Allen Buckley

From time immemorial Cornish tinners have celebrated the important dates on their calendar in their own way. Not only have the occasions been important to them and connected to the various changes in their annual routine, but the customary means of celebrating have also been pecu-liar to the tinners and marked them out as different […]

CORNISH RUGBY ONCE A WAY OF LIFE BY MICHAEL TANGYE

There are two occasions when you can guarantee that the Cornish will gather in great numbers – at a concert by a good male voice choir, or when Cornwall appears in a county cham-pionship rugby match.Although with the constant migration of our better players to the more prominent of the English clubs led to a […]

Dolly Pentreath by Dulcie Wing

Dulcie Wing who is now sadly deceased, was a descendant of the Pentreath & Jeffery Families. Dulcie was a wonderful lady who was proud to be “Proper Cornish” In the burial register of the Parish of Paul is the following entry: “1777, December 27th, Dorothy Jeffery was buried”. A note is added in different handwriting: […]