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
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
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
I was born into a very musical family. For many generations before me, music, singing and instruments had been an important fixture of family life.
Simon had received a new account from Stu Peters an ex South Crofty Miner about a particularly bad day at the Mine. It is well
In this article, Tony Mansell turns to the gunpowder manufacturing industry of the 19th century and looks at the process involved, and the pain experienced
David Oates draws on intensely personal childhood memories, of some seventy years ago, to find echoes of an age now gone. An age where leisure
Surfboards and sunsetsAnd pasties for lunchWith mackerel and ice creamAnd flowers by the bunch The hedges were highAnd morals to matchRoosters and chickensWith eggs that
Jim Wearne is a Cornish- American singer-songwriter who is an excellent lyricist which his book “Out Of Tune” shows. A link to purchase the book
On Saturday the 28th of October, the Cornish Music Symposium took place at Kresen Kernow as part of the annual Lowender festival – Cornwall’s festival
Terry Harry’s Comment.It is very human to see something and think, wow that’s excellent. That is exactly how we felt when we went into a
Mermaids are ancient beings, known in one form or another the world over. The Greek Bronze Age exploits of Odysseus featured the deadly sirens whose
I was born on a hill – not surprising in Truro really…. It wasn’t just any old hill. It was Richmond Hill where everything of
Susan Coney (née Phillips) is a prolific researcher and recorder of local history, especially about Truro. This article is about one of her relatives of
Nineteenth century Methodists were preoccupied with the saving of men’s souls, but one of their devout members successfully saved many thousands of miners’ lives in