Cornwall Yesteryear, Today & Dreckly

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Cotehele House & Wonderful Gardens

This is a record of a visit by Ruth & Terry on 7th August 2020 where it was a very hot day at 31 degrees. The photos were taken by both of them on Canon cameras, a link www.nationaltrust.org.uk/cotehele#Overview

More Than Just a Mine by Allen Buckley in 1995

When articles or books are written about the history of a Cornish mine or some aspect of Cornish mining, the subject matter mostly concerns the lodes worked, tonnage raised, machinery employed and the managers, mine captains and adventures involved. But mines are mostly about men: what they did, how they did it, when they did […]

South Crofty’s New Access Shaft by Allen Buckley in 1995

Robinsons Shaft is extremely old. It was started in the late eighteenth century and was down to the 36th fathom level by the early years of the nineteenth century. From about 1840 to the 1890s it was largely ignored, as it lay to the west of most of South Wheal Crofty’s workings, which were centred […]

Tales of Old Cornwall – The Tale Of The Boscastle Pigs by Stewart Murphy

There is one name that appears more often than any other when tales of old Cornwall are told. That is the famous Vicar of Morwenstow, the Reverend Hawker. Stories abound with reference to his kindness, his wit, his poetic abilities, his utter hatred of any “dissenters” as he was wont to call people like Baptists […]

The West Cornwall Railway by Michael Tangye

The steam trains of the Great Western Railway are now very much a feature of the past. Memories linger of snug compartments featuring elongated sepia photographs of west country resorts, of wide leather straps used to open and secure windows of corridor doors; of the inevitable smut in the eye on poking one’s head out […]

Hawker of Morwenstow by Marjorie Lawrey

It has often been said that the Church of England is rich in eccentrics, and one of these must surely have been Robert Stephen Hawker, Vicar of Morwenstow in Cornwall from 1834 until his death in 1875. A legend in his time, Hawker was an extraordinary mixture of flamboyance, superstition, and sound practical Christianity. He […]

Cornwall Humour by Alan Murton in 2002

Alan Murton – Runner Up in Confederation of Old Cornwall Societies Essay Competitiony November 30th is looming large.  I’m a “Dreckly” specialist and wait for a deadline to get perilously close before tackling any job.  My procrastination has given me opportunity in this essay to pay tribute to Lilla Miller, aka “Mrs Rosewarne,” who died […]

D Day for a Truronian by Alan Murton

So Many HeroesTerence John Murton (RAF 1941/46)1924 – 1979 I lived on a hill, not any old hill.  It was the hill in Truro where everything of importance to the community passed by and ran from railway station to town centre.  The hill was a historical news bulletin so that a camcorder or ciné camera […]

Air Ambulance Charity appeals for urgent support to safeguard helicopter service

1 June 2020 Cornwall Air Ambulance is appealing for urgent support to help safeguard the future of the helicopter service amid a significant funding shortfall due to the Coronavirus pandemic. With the closure of charity shops, the cancellation of community fundraising events and the loss of income from the tourism sector, the lifesaving charity is […]