Cornish Castles – St Michaels’ Mount by Margaret Rowling photos by Terry Harry
Most castles in Cornwall were built as fortresses centuries ago, their stout granite walls surviving many a battle. Over the years the weather may have beaten the walls down to almost ruins, but with a little imagination and a history book, we can see them again as they once were. One castle which needs no […]
Down West 22nd October 2023 by Terry Harry
Cornish Charming & Premonitions by Michael Tangye with photos by Terry Harry
Man’s dependency upon electronic equipment, his constant efforts to reach new scientific heights linked with a brain increasingly bombarded with the noise, data, and stresses of the twentieth century has led to the almost complete destruction of certain primitive, yet finer, senses. It is well known that races and tribes who have remained for centuries […]
Ros Keltek” Cornish Dance Group – Redruth’s Murdoch Day 1995
A Midnight Encounter by Rev. Thomas Shaw
St. Blazey Gate Methodist Church which was built in 1824 stands on the left-hand side of the road from St. Austell to St. Blazey at the junction which is signposted “Luxulyan”. It is a typical Wesleyan Chapel of the period but the simple magnificence of its interior furnishings would lead one to suppose that its […]
The Whit Monday Service at Gwennap Pit photos taken on the 5th June 1995 by Terry Harry
Richard Perry South Australia 1873-76 by Michael Tangye
The discovery of copper in the York Peninsula of South Australia in the 1840s attracted Cornish miners in their hun-dreds, and Burra-Burra, Wallaroo, and Moonta, east of Adelaide, became household names in Cornwall. Oswald Pryor, in his book Australia’s Little Cornwall tells us that many miners had arrived with the first settlers but, in the […]
Something leaked…..Cornish port’s boatbuilding heritage to be celebrated at regatta weekend….
LOOE is poised to have an additional harbourside event next year – and it’s one in which businesses and residents are being urged to get involved. Following on from the success of last May’s Cornish Lugger Association biennial reunion in the bay, the Looe-based organisers are now planning a ‘fallow years’ regatta in 2024 but […]
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 NEW CORNWALL GALLERY FOR ALL OF YOU UNABLE TO TRAVEL – Photos by Terry Harry
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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 […]