Join Jackie Harding as she tells Cornish Story about her journey walking towards St. Michael’s Way in late Autumn last year. Towards the end of October, we met at the isolated railway station on the Hayle Estuary at Lelant. The wooden station building is now a house, weathered, with window boxes and a weather vane,…Continue Reading “Towards St. Michael’s Way”
Jackie Harding tells Cornish Story about her journey walking from Chapel Porth to Nancekuke in late September last year. In this regular series of features she will be mapping these kinds of stories onto the physical landscape of the Cornish coast. On the last Sunday of September we arrived at Chapel Porth. It was so early that…Continue Reading “Chapel Porth to Nancekuke”
Jackie Harding relates her journey of walking from Hell’s Mouth to Portreath in late August earlier this year. In this regular series of features she will be mapping these kinds of stories onto the physical landscape of the Cornish coast. Read on to discover more. On the last morning of August we set off from Hell’s Mouth,…Continue Reading “North Cliffs: Hell’s Mouth to Portreath”
English with Creative Writing student Enya Nwaegbe reveals her reflections on the Cornish weather, contemplating the possibility of another severe storm, similar to one three years ago. I came to Cornwall three years ago to attend university and I never gave much thought to the Cornish weather. But now I personally believe that Cornwall has…Continue Reading “Stormy Weather in Cornwall”
Jackie Harding recounts walking from Hayle to Godrevy in late July earlier this year. In this new regular series of features she will be mapping these kinds of stories onto the physical landscape of the Cornish coast. Read on to discover more. The towans stretching from Hayle to Gwithian, Riviere, Mexico , Common, Phillack, and Upton, are…Continue Reading “From Hayle to Godrevy”
A biographical memoir on author Lamorna Spry’s grandfather and his sister on the fishing riots between Newlyn fishermen and fishermen from East Anglia in 1896. This story is about William Osborne Guy, known to the family as Willie Guy, but whose nickname as a child was ‘Clue’ – nobody could ever tell me why. He was born in…Continue Reading “Newlyn Fishing Riots in 1896”