A Miner’s Tale – from Simon Jones website (cornishmineimages.co.uk)
Simon had received a new account from Stu Peters an ex South Crofty Miner about a particularly bad day at the Mine. It is well worth a read, and a valuable addition to his Cornish Miners Memories 3. During the autumn of 1973 I went to work at South Crofty. On my first morning I […]
A day out at Minions & Golitha Woodland
Click on any photo in the gallery to see them larger There are photos here of the Minions Mound, which is believed to be a bronze age cairn.You will find it if you look carefully to the right of The Hurlers car park at Minions. It was damaged when the cottages next to it were […]
Kennall Gunpowder Mill Co. by Tony Mansell
In this article, Tony Mansell turns to the gunpowder manufacturing industry of the 19th century and looks at the process involved, and the pain experienced when things go wrong. Gunpowder was invented in China, probably in the 9th century, and its potential for warfare and for more peaceful purposes was quickly realised. Opinions vary regarding […]
Bude’s Tide Mill and Bridge – A New Book by Nick Cole
This book is an account of an 18-month long piece of historical detective work. At the centre of town is an iconic bridge named, “Nanny Moore’s Bridge”. Nanny Moore lived in a cottage by the bridge, and it was known that the cottage had been a mill. How the mill was powered, and the history […]
Morwenstow Church by Ruth Tremayne Harry with photos by Terry Harry
There’s a Church in northern CornwallWhere an eccentric used to roamHe was the vicar and a poetMorwenstow Church became his home Reverend Hawker was this clericHe wrote poetic sermons in his hutMade out of driftwood from the seashoreFrom shipwrecked vessels out of luck With a service of thanksgivingAnd prayers for harvesting the cornThe bread of […]
Over the hills and far away .. by David Oates
David Oates draws on intensely personal childhood memories, of some seventy years ago, to find echoes of an age now gone. An age where leisure and pleasure before the time of universal car ownership was found close to home. The advent of car ownership, too, marked the beginning of the end of communities travelling and […]
GOLITHA FALLS by Ruth Tremayne Harry with photos by Terry Harry
An autumn walk to cherishThe colours inspire aweThe River Fowey is flowingLike you’ve never seen before Draynes Wood is the beginningAs the paths wind through the treesWhere roots form stepping stonesAnd moss and lichen frame the leaves You hear the rapids singingAs you skirt the river’s edgeThe wildlife all around youEven sheep beyond the hedge […]
A Village Childhood in Quintrell Downs by Ruth Tremayne Harry
Surfboards and sunsetsAnd pasties for lunchWith mackerel and ice creamAnd flowers by the bunch The hedges were highAnd morals to matchRoosters and chickensWith eggs that would hatch There were horses and rabbitsAnd sermons galoreWith milkmen and grocersBringing food to your door The steam train arrivedAs my alarm every dayThen the bread man drove upSaffron buns […]
An excellent book by Jim Wearne
Jim Wearne is a Cornish- American singer-songwriter who is an excellent lyricist which his book “Out Of Tune” shows. A link to purchase the book on Amazon is below after one of his song lyrics. This write up is taken from his website http://www.jimwearne.com/ My name is Jim Wearne, and I am a Cornish-American folk […]
Cornish Music Symposium by Kate Neale
On Saturday the 28th of October, the Cornish Music Symposium took place at Kresen Kernow as part of the annual Lowender festival – Cornwall’s festival of music and dance. The Symposium a recurring part of the festival and is a joint venture with the Cornish National Music Archive: a website and community project that has […]
Simon Jones – A real mining photographer
Terry Harry’s Comment.It is very human to see something and think, wow that’s excellent. That is exactly how we felt when we went into a photographic exhibition at Geevor Tin Mine Museum.It was incredible and showed many photos that were taken with “proper” camera equipment in very difficult conditions, mostly underground without the benefit of […]
Those Mysterious Holes In The Ground – By well known authority Allen Buckley
“A mine is a hole in the ground with a Cornishman at the bottom,” so says the old adage, but, when is a hole a mine shaft? – and when is it something else completely? It is apparent, when reading statements in the press or hearing journalists on tv or radio, that most who comment […]
Cornwall’s Siren by Craig Weatherhill
Mermaids are ancient beings, known in one form or another the world over. The Greek Bronze Age exploits of Odysseus featured the deadly sirens whose song was so alluring that his sailors’ ears had to be stopped up with wax to stop them being lured overboard, the other forms of strange sea-folk can be found […]
Richmond Hill- The place where I was born. by Alan Murton
I was born on a hill – not surprising in Truro really…. It wasn’t just any old hill. It was Richmond Hill where everything of importance to the community seemed to pass by. It’s still there – but I wonder does it still reflect the social history of today as it did in my memories […]