Strange & Ghostly Cornish Tales by Pat Robins
Years ago, long before the arrival of radio or TV, Cornish folk often entertained each other by telling a tale. On dark, cold winter nights while they sat round the fire, tales about ghosts and other strange happenings were often a favourite entertainment. In the telling fact got mixed up with fiction but nobody minded […]
Scilly The Way It Was The Bishop by Steve Ottery in 1995
For 150 years the light from the Bishop Rock lighthouse has warned the mariners to steer clear of the rocks or “fangs of Scilly”. The Bishop takes its name from the steep sided pinnacle rock on which it is sited. In medieval times the rock and its surrounding satellites were known as the “Bishop and […]
Lostwithiel a Royalist Victory August – September 1644 by Blaze Redgrave in 1996
It was the siege of Lyme (now Lyme Regis) by a Royalist army under Prince Maurice that caused the Earl of Essex to set off to the south-west, haying left Waller to engage the king’s forces near Oxford. After Waller’s defeat at Cropredy Bridge in the Oxford. area, Essex was urgently summoned to re-join the […]
Trebah Gardens
This is a truly wonderful garden where Ruth & Terry spent a wonderful afternoon. They both took many photos, which are shown below. The garden is really worth a visit. The Trebah Garden website can be found here. In 1831 Trebah was acquired by the Fox Family who built Glendurgan Garden. Trebah was first laid […]
Rogue Theatre Wonder Walks photos by Terry Harry
What a truly wonderful show that is up to the usual standard of the Rogue Theatre. Well done to all the performers and the tremendous back stage crew.
Godolphin House Gardens
This is a record of a visit by Ruth & Terry on 14th August 2020 where it was quite an overcast day. The photos as usual, were taken by them both on Canon cameras, here is a link to this wonderful place https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/godolphin
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
Kresen Kernow photos by Terry Harry
The wonderful building containing the new home for the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth. on the site of the old Devenish Brewery.
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 […]
A first ever gallery of Ruth Tremayne Netter’s homeland after a few photographic tips from Terry Harry
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 […]