Category: Current Stories
Cornish Story – A website that helps us with some of their stories.
Cornish Story are looking for authors seeking an on-line platform for their Cornish articles (mainly non-fiction) and poetry. Cornish Story has a wide range of
Strange Inhabitants? Drawings by Robbie.
MORGAWR THE MONSTER? Cornwall may not have any lakes or inland waterways to match the Scottish Lochs but we do have a rather large amount
The St Agnes Railway That Never Arrived by Clive Benney
Many will have heard of the Chacewater to Newquay Railway that passed through St Agnes Parish between 1903 and 1963 but how many know that
Growing Up Near Looe by Tony Mansell
This is largely an article of personal memories and is in no way an attempt to provide a history of the area. It includes my
The China Clay Industry by Malcolm Gould
Malcolm Gould brings us the technical aspects of extracting clay, the practical methods used and more than a bit of local colour. A most informative
Kernow’s Smaller Villages – Penwithick by Malcolm Gould
This article takes us for a trip into clay-country as Malcolm Gould recalls his young life there in one of its small villages. I was
The Mangle House by Tony Mansell
A mangle keeper or mangle woman was someone who offered a laundry pressing service to the people of her community. The possession of a mangle,
At the end of the valley by Tony Mansell
Another trip into Tony Mansell’s world of folklore, myth and legend. This time with a tale of a Cornish maid who was cheated out of
Kernow’s Smaller Villages – Silverwell – Memories of Pure Gold by Tony Mansell
In the first of this series Tony Mansell has chosen the village where he grew up and for which he still has fond memories. There
Memories by Trevor Dalley
In 1956 after about ten years of cycling to and fro from Praze to Camborne every day in all weathers, loading the wagon with fruit