Newsletter June 2026 Pentewan (Photo: Courtesy Lyndon Allen) This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems Royal Institution of Cornwall This article is a brief summary of the history of the Royal Institution of Cornwall (RIC). More comprehensive information can be found in the Royal Institution of Cornwall’s Journals 2018 and 2019. Copies of these Journals can be…Continue Reading “Newsletter June 2026”
Suzanne Trythal has profiled Trebarwith United Methodist Chapel Trebarwith is a hamlet in the parish of Tintagel in North Cornwall. Remains of chapel September 2025 1907 map of village 1891 Census: chapel recorded between entries 139 and 140 – the Lobb family at entry 143 purchased the chapel and land in 1922 …Continue Reading “Trebarwith United Methodist Chapel”
Suzanne Trythall has compiled this profile of Penzance Chapel Street Wesleyan Chapel. Penzance is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall. 1814: By 1800 the Wesleyans were meeting in a building in Queen Street in which John Wesley himself had preached in 1789. They left this building for their…Continue Reading “Penzance Chapel Street Wesleyan Chapel”
A second portrait of St Ives by the late Mary Quick (1929-2021) who was born and raised there. It was probably written circa 2015. We are grateful to her family for allowing it to be published here. For many years, St Ives has been recognised as a popular resort, famous for its white sand and…Continue Reading “St Ives by Mary Quick”
Another tongue-in-cheek poem, this time from the pen of George White Where’s Me Pasty? The Cornish Police were short of men and short of women too Tre, Pol and Pen, three gallant ‘men,’ all dressed in navy blue. The sergeant said, “Now stand up straight and listen to me proper. Each of you,…Continue Reading “Where’s Me Pasty? A poem by George White”
This article by Yvonne Oliver Bowers will be of interest to those involved in genealogy and to us all as a lesson in tenacious research. It first appeared in Kynyav, the Newsletter of the California Cornish Cousins and Yvonne was kind enough to sanction its inclusion here. If falls under the heading of ‘Global Cornwall’…Continue Reading “Who was Alice?”