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Harry Glasson – The great songwriter who wrote “Cornwall My Home”

What a privilege it was for us to meet up with the legend Harry Glasson and his lovely wife Ann in their delightful garden on a sunny Cornish summer afternoon.  You can find the essence of Harry’s love for Cornwall encapsulated in his wonderful catalogue of songs, and in particular Cornwall My Home which is […]

A wonderful video based on mining by Julia Rich

This video below was created by Julia Rich as part of a photography degree, while doing a project called “The Hole in the Ground”, it was intended as a kind of ‘docutainment’ of the sort that could be shown in museums and for visitors to places like Geevor, Botallack, Poldark mines. Pure happenstance was that the […]

The Great Hurricane of 1823 by Michael Tangye Photos Terry Harry

Late October 1823. West Cornwall was experiencing summer-like weather with warm sunshine and still seas. In Mount’s Bay, and else-where along the coast, fishermen were obtaining large catches of pilchards which usually visited the shallower waters of the Cornish coast from August to late November. Thirty-five seines were active in Mount’s Bay, and from eighty […]

Forgotten Heroes by E.M. Gardner with a drawing by Robbie

Cornwall is a special land, its men a special breed,By granite rocks and mighty seas their strength has been decreed,No fear will make them bow their heads, with honour pay a toll,And each man is his own man with an independent soul,Their lives ordained to hardship like the cliffs that girt their land,But whenever danger […]

My Favourite Place – Malpas by Alan Murton

You’ve all got your favourite spots, I bet. One thing for sure is that we’re spoilt for choice in Cornwall, aren’t we? Don’t ask how I choose mine – I couldn’t tell you how_ when or why my list is as it is, or how I rank them like my father used to say: “There’s […]

Zennor Church by Margaret Rowling for Cornwall Today in the 1990s

If you take the B3306 road from St. Ives to St. Just, you will pass through some of the most dramatic scenery in Cornwall. The road leaps, dips and twists through a range of bare granite hills, grotesque in outline, yet grand in their solitude. Rosewall is the first hill on your left, and this […]

Introduction of Rock Drills into Cornish Mining by Allen Buckley

Written by Allen Buckley in 1995 for Cornwall Today Magazine Over the last five hundred years Cornish miners have swung between being world leaders in mining methods and technology and being obsolescent and totally outdated in attitude and equipment. During the 16th century Cornwall held its own; during the 17th century her miners and engineers […]

Cornish Mining History written by the brilliant Allen Buckley for Cornwall Today in 1995

The Cornish industrial landscape is coming under increasing scrutiny. Interest in all things connected to Cornish mining and other aspects of the county’s industrial past has really taken off during the last couple of decades. Formerly great mines like Dolcoath, Fowey Consols, Levant, Ding Dong and Devon Great Consols have become household names, and the […]

A Millwheel Worked In Blood – By the late great Craig Weatherhill In 1995

The road from Catchall to St. Buryan twists its way through a valley bottom near a house called Canopus and close to where Trelew Mill once stood. The stream flows on southward, past the site of Trombothick Mill and through one of the most pleasant and unspoilt valleys in West Cornwall towards where it once […]

The Story Of The Cornish by John Webb

I am delighted to say that I have been granted permission for the following to appear on this website. John Webb is an important member of the Toronto Cornish Association.This research was first given verbally at their meetings and recently featured in their newsletter. I am very pleased to have John as my brother-in-law; he […]