Category: Memories
How Folk Earned A Living On Some Of Our Yesterdays By Dulcie Wing
Between the two World Wars many young men would be seen peddling goods from door to door, especially in the country villages. Most of these
A Scillonian skippers’s scribllings with John Hicks c1995
John Hicks is a Scillonian and very proud of it. He’s a boatman by profession who used to ferry passengers all around the Islands in
The Coming of the Wireless by Tom Clemens c1996
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’s lives we’re after, not ships. by Thomas Austin
Padstow Lifeboat first Published in Aigust 1995 Severe stormforce winds, some structural damage may occur. That warning is always ominous, and all of us on
Auntie Em’ by David Moyse
When I think of her, waifs and strays both human and animal come to mind.Auntie Em was my mother’s sister, and as a very small