Horse team heading for Charlestown with China Clay 1900
(Photo: Courtesy Lyndon Allen)
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This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems
The Life and Times of Sidney Zaccarius Penpraze – The White Winged Chough
“Tis right nuff Pard, I was attacked an I consider meself lucky to ave escaped with me life: I can still remember his crazed look as ee swooped down. I knew I musn look’n the eyes otherwise I’d have been glued to the spot, transfixed like.
Now, If ee got the time, I could tell ee all bout the evil fiend an is rule of terror but I got an awful dry throat thas just beggin for a drop of lubrication.”
The First Decade of the Toronto Cornish Association (1994-2004)
This history of the current Toronto Cornish Association is from the Association’s February 2026 newsletter. It is included here as a part of Cornish Story’s Global Kernow.
No story of Truro could be told without reference to its rivers and their role in its development. Sailing ships and then steam ships were a common sight as they made their way from Falmouth Haven, along what we now know as Carrick Roads, the River Fal and into Truro River before discharging their goods or continuing their journey up the inner-city rivers. It’s not difficult to imagine children of that period collecting ships’ names as eagerly as those of a later age jotting down railway engine numbers.
The House at East Wheal Rose – a poem by R J Rowse
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Cornish Books
Publication to mark Black History Month
Projects
Barripper UMFC Tea (Photo: courtesy David Oates)
Compilation of Truro Inns and Pubs
Compilation of St Agnes Inns & Pubs
Rescorla Cultural Centre Events
(Cornish Story is a part of the Rescorla Centre)
Creative workshops and events at the Rescorla Centre with an emphasis on Cornish History and Craft delivered in association with Cornish Story and the Institute of Cornish Studies. Click here for details.
Cornwall is the Honoured Nation at the 2026 Lorient Interceltic Festival. To mark this event the Rescorla Festival and Cornish Story will be holding a Celtic day on Saturday 18th July. At 10.30am there will be a discussion on Cornwall’s Celtic Connections and then at 2.30pm there will be a Celtic Journey session exploring the various Celtic nations through music and storytelling.
Other Events include:
Cornish Studies Group on the third Saturday of the month at 10.30am.
Celtic Music Session on the third Saturday of the month at 7.00pm.
Kegin (Cornish for ‘Kitchen’) session on the last Saturday of the month at 10.30am. Food, music, singing, dialect readings, and poetry around the kitchen table.
Rescorla Book Club throughout the year. Please email Tracy Pithie for further details.
Please email G.H.Tregidga@exeter.ac.uk to pre-book.
Cornish items by other writers or organisations
In accordance with our aim to promote a greater knowledge of Cornwall and the Cornish Diaspora overseas, we are pleased to include details of films, books, articles and projects relating to aspects of Cornish culture past and present.
Elizabeth Dale (Cornish Bird)
Elizabeth Dale was born and raised on a farm near Falmouth and has been writing about Cornish history for local and national publications since 2016. She is passionate about celebrating and preserving Cornish heritage and culture and her blog, The Cornish Bird, is an eclectic mix of more than 400 articles focusing on the lesser known stories from Cornwall’s past.
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