Out & About with Ruth & Terry

All of these photos have been taken recently whilst we have been out and about getting photos for articles for this magazine.

HAPPY MEMORIES OF PENWARTHA SCHOOL 1955/56 by Kevin Bennetts

WITH MR WILLY TAMBLIN AS OUR TEACHER WHO UNBEKNOWN TO ME AT THAT POINT SHAPED MY FUTURE. I had started school at Penwartha tucked away at the top of the Coombe of that name that runs back to the West from Bolingey, it was a happy place where one particular teacher, still teaching well past […]

Those Ubiguitous Engine Houses by Allen Buckley in 1995

The article was written in 1995 by Allen. All photos were taken by Terry Harry in 2020 Interest in Cornwall’s old, ruined, mine enginehouses has never been greater. Throughout the mining districts enginehouses have been restored, renovated or stabilised, and many different groups and societies have been involved. At Wheal Coates, Wheal Prosper and Carn […]

RECOLLECTIONS OF REDRUTH 1939 – 1944 BY ELIZABETH TROUNSON

lf only Redruth station could speakl   It had seen so many comings and goings during its history; mass migration to the cotton and woollen mills in the north in the 1870s and the exodus of miners to many parts of the world looking for work and using their expertise underground in many a foreign land. […]

GWENNAP PIT by Ruth Tremayne Harry

With photos by Terry Harry It’s the heart of the Methodist worldWhere John Wesley made his markAnd as the people came to listenSomething profound had made a start Let your light shine, were his wordsMiss no opportunity to do others goodWe would do well to just rememberWere these sentiments understood? Gwennap Pit’s an extraordinary placeWith […]

Welcome – Cornish History

Cornwall was indeed a Dark Ages kingdom. Its last king, Doniert, contrived to drown himself in the 10th century and an inscribed stone still stands to commemorate his passing. Subsequently, Cornwall was even to acquire its own Parliament (known as the Stannary) as the commercial importance of tin became paramount to the English king’s exchequer; […]

THE LEVANT MINING DISASTER BY PETER WAVERLY (1994)

It was nearly 3pm on Monday 20th October 1919, when the man engine at Levant mine on the cliffs near Pendeen snapped and the second greatest tragedy in the history of Cornish mining took 31 men to their deaths.The man engine first installed at Levant in 1857, was by 1919. an antiquated piece of machinery […]

Breage Church in 1994 by Margaret Rowling

Just four miles from Helston, on the main road to Penzance, you will pass through the village of Breage. On your right, as you come up the hill to Breage you cannot fail to notice the church. The 66ft. high 15th century tower with its pinnacles and buttresses, look unusually decorative for a Cornish church. […]

ST. BILLY OF BALDHU (The life and times of Billy Bray) Part two by Thomas Shaw

Thomas Shaw, is a Methodist Minister, and a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd (Ystoryer Methodysyeth). He’s the former general secretary of the Wesley Historical Society, editor of the Cornish Methodist Historical Association Journal, author of The History  of Cornish Methodism, the Bible Christians, and many other local Methodist Church histories. So, what sort of a […]

The Children of Epona: Horses in Cornish Legend by Craig Weatherhill

An article written in 1993 for Cornwall Today by Craig Weatherhill who sadly died in July 2020. Craig was himself a Cornish Legend, his books were read Worldwide. Like all good Celts, the sheer beauty and nobility of horses have captivated me from an early age and I am inseparable from my own horse Larnie, […]

Discovering Cornish Hulls by Michael Tangye in 1994

I had heard of the dark and mysterious chambers penetrating deeply into the hillsides of the Carnmenellis granite area, which lies between Redruth and Helston. Stories brought down from the hills by natives of that, seemingly, remote region, said that they were as ancient as the hills themselves, and that they were fogous used by […]