This is a captivating Cornish Story of a group of treacherous rocks that have sunk over a thousand ships. It weaves together stories of shipwrecks, engineering failures, and remarkable triumphs, focusing on the challenges faced in constructing the four iconic Eddystone lighthouses, the last of which still stands as a beacon against the unforgiving sea….Continue Reading “The Eddystone Lighthouses”
Terry Harry Terry was born in St Day and first picked up a camera in Redruth County Grammar School. He was lucky enough to have excellent employment until he decided to go self-employed as a professional photographer. Terry’s uncle was BBC’s Television Gardener, Don Hoyle, who got Terry to do a few photographic…Continue Reading “The Amazing Photography of Terry Harry”
A Cornish Dialect series by Tony Mansell At the age of five, Sidney Penpraze attended the local village school, the same place of learning where his father had begun his education, when it first opened its doors. All the village children attended there and whereas most walked, Sidney was driven there by his…Continue Reading “The Life and Times of Sidney Zacharius Penpraze – The Early Years”
Pause a while and share this seat High on the bluff in Malpas village, It’s where three Cornish rivers meet. When the sun reflects from the flowing tide Where else on earth would you want to be With like-minded friends at your side? In a silence so rich you could almost cry,…Continue Reading “Malpas – A Favourite Place (A Poem by Alan Murton)”
Lady Justice (Photo: Pixabay) Considering the length of bookshop shelves on crime and punishment it seems that many of us have an insatiable appetite for the genre. Television, too, brings us a seemingly endless stream of programmes and while watching one recently, a documentary titled You Be the Judge: Crime & Punishment, (6th May…Continue Reading “Crime and Punishment in Cornwall”
Phillip Hunt recalls his association and friendship with Cornish academic, historian and author, Alfred Leslie Rowse CH FRSL (1903 – 1997) It was in 1980, soon after I had joined The National Trust to manage their Retail Shops in Cornwall, that I first met A L Rowse. I was called to our Regional Office Reception…Continue Reading “Recollections of Dr A L Rowse”