Just Another Summer Day… by Lynn Jennings
(Porthminster Beach, St Ives, Cornwall Aug 1943) August 1943 –the heat has driven usdown to the shore… sky is a cloth of endless blue,a heat
Category: Memories
The Bomb by Lynn Jennings
(July 7th Lister Street – Falmouth, Cornwall) I have no memory of that Sunday,of my family doing the usual Sunday things,my brother playing next door
Discovering Cornish Hulls by Michael Tangye in 1994
I had heard of the dark and mysterious chambers penetrating deeply into the hillsides of the Carnmenellis granite area, which lies between Redruth and Helston.
Strange & Ghostly Cornish Tales by Pat Robins
Years ago, long before the arrival of radio or TV, Cornish folk often entertained each other by telling a tale. On dark, cold winter nights
Scilly The Way It Was The Bishop by Steve Ottery in 1995
For 150 years the light from the Bishop Rock lighthouse has warned the mariners to steer clear of the rocks or “fangs of Scilly”. The
Lostwithiel a Royalist Victory August – September 1644 by Blaze Redgrave in 1996
It was the siege of Lyme (now Lyme Regis) by a Royalist army under Prince Maurice that caused the Earl of Essex to set off
More Than Just a Mine by Allen Buckley in 1995
When articles or books are written about the history of a Cornish mine or some aspect of Cornish mining, the subject matter mostly concerns the
Tales of Old Cornwall – The Tale Of The Boscastle Pigs by Stewart Murphy
There is one name that appears more often than any other when tales of old Cornwall are told. That is the famous Vicar of Morwenstow,
The West Cornwall Railway by Michael Tangye
The steam trains of the Great Western Railway are now very much a feature of the past. Memories linger of snug compartments featuring elongated sepia
Family Memories of Porthgwarra by Christine Gendall
My father’s family fished out of Porthgwarra, near Land’s End, for at least three generations and they knew that area of cliffs, rocks, tides, and