Boy Willie (Image created using ChatGPT) Narrated by David Oates Educating Boy Willie is a classic Cornish dialect story made famous by the late storyteller Herbie Lean and recounted here in his own inimitable style by raconteur David Oates of Proper Job singers. David Oates David Oates is a Cornish bard…Continue Reading “Educating Boy Willie – a Cornish Dialect audio”
From Cornish rogues and legends by Robert J Rowse Robert J Rowse I was Born in Redruth, grew up near Newquay but went to school in Launceston. For the past 20+ years I have taught English as a Second Language to students in Indonesia (A modern Cousin Jack).
The Fisk University Jubilee Choir Tour of Cornwall Black Musicians in the South West 1894-1895 By Lynne Mayers The Story of Discovery It all began with the arrival of an old scrapbook at the Perranzabuloe Museum in 2014. To call it a scrapbook is a serious dis-service, for it is a leather-bound ledger which runs…Continue Reading “The Fisk University Jubilee Choir Tour of Cornwall”
By Robert Burroughs Another story in the Drollercoaster series St Germanus Priory Church at old Lanaled; East Wivelshire, 1824 From F W L Stockdale: Excursions in the County of Cornwall; (pub’ Simpkin & Marshall, London, 1824) In the church of St Germanus at ancient Lanaled, there survives a carved Misericorde seat showing a Huntsman and…Continue Reading “The Dondu: The Demon Huntsman and his Dandy Dogs”
By Tony Mansell Cornwall once had many railway branch lines but, sad to say, only a few remain. One that still operates is the Looe Valley Line but without the the need to transport minerals from Caradon to quayside, it would never have been built. Perhaps that statement is not entirely true: who knows whether…Continue Reading “Caradon to Looe Railway”
Bert Biscoe’s commemoration poem to Thomas Flamank and Michael Joseph An Gof – forever remembered by Cornish people wherever they may be.