Portloe (Photo: courtesy Lyndon Allen) (Links are in blue) This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems The Life and Times of Sidney Zacharius Penpraze It was a still, cold night, the sort when the smoke rises gently from the chimneys like fingers pointing to the sky. There were few customers in the pub, probably because…Continue Reading “Newsletter September 2026”
Mevagissey (Photo: Keith Gray) (Links are in blue) This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems The History of the Port of Par To study the history of Par harbour, we first need to peer back through the mists of time to the port of St Blazey. It was here that ships came to the area of…Continue Reading “Newsletter August 2026”
Passing the Banjo Pier at Looe (Photo: Courtesy Lyndon Allen) (Links are in blue) This Month’s Cornish Articles and Poems The Dondu In the church of St Germanus at ancient Lanaled, there survives a carved Misericorde seat showing a Huntsman and his Dandy Dogs. This is the terrifying story of the Dondu; the…Continue Reading “Newsletter July 2026”
Horse team heading for Charlestown with China Clay 1900 (Photo: Courtesy Lyndon Allen) (Links are in blue) 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…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”