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miners have swung between being world leaders in mining methods and technology and being obsolescent and totally outdated in attitude and equipment.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 […]
The Smugglers of Gerrans Bay – written by Chris Pollard for Cornwall Today in 1995
The long sweep of Gerrans Bay, with its high vantage points at the Nare Head and St. Anthony made it an ideal location for the “moonlight traders”. With a number of easily reached covers and no end of deep “drangs” wide enough to take the small boats used for landing the contraband, the smugglers of […]
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 […]
Mevagissey from the book “A Cornish Homecoming” by Ruth & Terry Harry
Trengwainton Gardens from the book “A Cornish Homecoming” by Ruth & Terry Harry
The Coming of the Wireless by Tom Clemens (who actually taught Jethro quite a few years ago!)
In my village in mid-Cornwall the telephone was still something of a novelty when the first wireless sets appeared and although we didn’t understand how it worked, at least it had wires connected to it along which messages could travel. But here was a box of tricks which needed no wires from the outside, as […]
John Betjeman’s Cornwall by Molly Reynolds with photos by Terry Harry
Although John Betjeman, best known of Britain’s Poets Laureate, was not a Cornishman, he made one area of the county his own. The villages and countryside of North Cornwall centred around the towns of Wadebridge and Padstow have been immortalised in Betjeman’s verse. A book of private letters was published in 1995, edited by Betjeman’s […]
The Memorial To Guglielmo Marconi at Poldhu Cove photos by Terry Harry
If you have never been it is well worth a visit. Take the road on the left of the beach, up to The Poldhu Cove Rest home and go left into the Marconi Museum car park before the home. Read the story from the plaques on the monument which are shown below. Sorry about the […]
The Old Plough – Shortlanesend with a poem by Ruth Harry & Photos by Terry Harry
THE OLD PLOUGH It’s the local village pubAnd is the heart of ShortlanesendWhere Mark and Ian welcome youOn that you can depend Besides the drinks and pub foodThere are activities to chooseWith quizzes, games and bingoDon’t worry if you lose Some runners-up get prizesIt’s a family friendly placeIf darts or pool’s your interestOr perhaps a […]
Cornwall Blood Bikes – Riding For Life
Cornwall Blood Bikes founded in 2011, is a purely volunteer run charity operating “out of hours” Monday to Friday 5pm-7am and 24 hours weekends and bank holidays. Operating 365 days a year, in all winds and weathers, delivering urgent medical supplies; pathology samples, whole blood, platelets, medical notes, medical equipment, medication, donor breast milk and […]
Our holiday on The Isles Of Scilly – Tresco and the World famous Abbey Gardens Part Two
