The countryside dazzles, a pageant of glistening white. The magical rime of last night’s hoar frost decks hedges and trees in Christmas tinsel. At my feet the fields lie frozen, a milky, plush-piled Persian carpet. The fog which brought the whiteness has conceded. Yielding to the same sun which will destroy what it now…Continue Reading “Morning Glory – a poem by Alan Murton”
Photo: Pixabay As a child, my dad would take me, on Saturday morning, with a couple of his friends, out fishing at Coverack in a beautiful clinker built boat called The Southern Star. Going there recently, many years on, I found her pulled up beyond high water, much changed from the boat I knew….Continue Reading “The Southern Star – a poem by David Oates”
A Cornish Dialect series by Tony Mansell “Here Sid, did ee ever av a go at playin that there golf?” “Ess Jan, I did. I did av a go at n but I gived n up again. “Sure nuff? “Ess, I couldn get on with they lot over Perran and part from that, they ad…Continue Reading “The Life and Times of Sidney Zacharius Penpraze – Playing A Round”
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 father…Continue Reading “The Life and Times of Sidney Zacharius Penpraze – The Early Years”