Mining Can Be Fun By Allen Buckley in 1995
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A problem “up-country” settlers have with the Cornish is knowing when to take them seriously. No race on earth is as dedicated to the “wind-up” as is the Cornish Celt, and more Englishmen and other “furriners” have gone back across the Tamar convinced of the truth of some amazing or unlikely story, than it takes […]
It’s lives we’re after, not ships. by Thomas Austin
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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 hearing such a forecast will immediately offer a fervent hope that our home will be spared, followed in the instant by thoughts of insurance, renewal dates, amount of cover, and […]
Walking With The Late Frank Squibb. The Land’s End Round First Published in August 1995
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Frank Squibb lived in Falmouth with his family and sadly passed away in 2013. ‘The Squibbs are very well respected in Cornish athletic circles. Frank made a daily round trip to St. Austell College where he was a senior Tutor, lecturing in Tourism and Leisure. When you read about his walks you will not question […]
Bit Chat With Joy Stevenson, our Maid Lowenna
Cornish author and bard, the late great Joy Stevenson, who promoted dialect throughout her life wrote this piece for Cornwall Today Yesterday & Dreckly in 1996. Joy died in 2015 in her 90s with husband Stan by her side. Stan was an adobted Cornishman being Scottish and he was a truly lovely man that I […]