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 […]
The Project To Buy Back Penhale As A National Covid19 Pandemic Memorial By Kevin Bennetts
02 / 06/ 2020. The North Coast of Cornwall from Pendeen Watch to Trevose constitutes some of the finest seascapes to be found anywhere in the UK, there are wild majestic cliffs, various offshore islets. surf pounded strands and extensive dune systems that support highly vulnerable flora and fauna all of which are under serious […]
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 […]
North Cliffs & Hayle 30th May 2020 by Terry Harry
Penwith area 29th May 2020 by Terry Harry
A little drive around West Penwith to show all of you what you may be missing. Zennor Church, Penzance, Newlyn, Mousehole and St Michael’s Mount.
Flushing & Mylor Trip by Terry Harry
Redruth Revival Murders by Michael Tangye
1824. King George IV reigned. The mining town of Redruth had not yet reached the height of its prosperity. Its shallow, immensely rich copper lodes had rapidly raised many shrewd miners and investors from their working-class status to that of the middle class. Yet the majority of what was then an almost entire Cornish population, […]
St Agnes 27th May 2020 by Terry Harry
How do you know you’re back where you belong? by Alan Murton
How do you know?When the winter sun is shining and the sea is cobalt blue,When the golden sand is gleaming, Atlantic rollers sweeping inAnd you share the beach with others – in coats and wellies too,Walking the empty acres where the visitors have been That’s when you know. When Christmas comes bands and choirs, young […]
“Where I belong…” by Alan Murton
Empty winter beachebb tide leaves mirrored pools.Lovers stroll, hold hands.Seabirds wheeling high, reach for the towering crags,swoop to foaming surf.gone the summer throng,stretches the endless gold sand, Sea air fills my lungs.Atlantic rollers curve,white foam caresses the rocks –Telling me “I’m home.”
A Cornishman’s Alphabet After Phillip Gross by Alan Murton
An Alturnun Academic Arguing Attic ArtsBodmin Bully-Boys Booking Beds for bards.Cool Chaps from Camborne Catching the Coach for Brittany…Deacons from Doublebois Drowning their own litany…Emmet Educationalists, Error-prone & ill at Ease….Four Fraddon Farmers Finding Freedom From the Freeze…Great Granite Gargoyles Grinning from Grey halls…Herring Huers from Hayle Hollering ” Handsome Hauls…”.Island artists from St Ives […]
Around the Truro area 26th May 2020 by Terry Harry
A round trip to Truro, then The Punch Bowl and Ladle at Penelewey, onward to the car park of Trelissick. Finally a visit to the Quaker Meeting House at Come To Good.
Out & About 25th May 2020 by Terry Harry
Beautiful weather again today, quite a few people all out. Nearly all of them being sensible and socially distancing. Yet again I was the only one wearing a mask.