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
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
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
“A mine is a hole in the ground with a Cornishman at the bottom,” so says the old adage, but, when is a hole 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
The fascinating story of Joseph Antonia Emidy has been mostly gleaned from the autobiography of oneof his pupils, the Cornish-born politician and slavery abolitionist, James
Part One ‘Mongst Photos and Photographers… A few weeks ago, I took my son on a camping trip to North Wales. We weren’t especially fortunate
Most castles in Cornwall were built as fortresses centuries ago, their stout granite walls surviving many a battle. Over the years the weather may have
Man’s dependency upon electronic equipment, his constant efforts to reach new scientific heights linked with a brain increasingly bombarded with the noise, data, and stresses
St. Blazey Gate Methodist Church which was built in 1824 stands on the left-hand side of the road from St. Austell to St. Blazey at