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Bodmin, Cornwall
Bodmin maps
Historic maps of Bodmin and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Bodmin maps
Historic map of Bodmin
Illustrated Victorian map of Cornwall
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Bodmin books
Displaying 3 of 12 books about Bodmin and the local area. View all Bodmin books
Cornwall County Memories
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£12
Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
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£11.20
Helston Photographic Memories
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£10.40
14 Bodmin photos appear in 4 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Bodmin
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This picture shows the street as I remember it aged four. The building on the right was the office of my father's legal practice (Pomery and Gill) and opposite was the market. As a child I loved the Saturday market, when the boiled sweets of all descriptions were on sale. I also loved the stone cows' heads across the facade. My... [more]
Shared on 07 July 2007
I found when researching the 1901 census that members of my husband's family worked at the Asylum. My husband's grandfather, Alfred Charles (Charlie) Southern worked there until his death in 1944. His job was described as "Mental Nurse". Charles' sister Glen Dora also worked there as did his mother Anne and other relatives. Some were described as laundresses. I wondered whether... [more]
Shared on 18 July 2007
Ok, on Halloween night 2007 some friends and myself wanted to do something different for our Halloween night, so where better to do it than at the old Bodmin prison.
So off we set at 9 o'clock taking track to the prison. It was a great evening. We spent some hours in the darkest depths of the prison and we... [more]
Shared on 07 March 2008
Cornwall memories
I have bought Joan the Wad Cornish pickes at the Abbey and caught a trout in the river that runs in front of it. I was evacuated to the village in the war to Church Town Farm with Mr and Mrs Greenway and there was a large monkey puzzle tree in the front garden. Only this week I was given one... [more]
Shared on 28 August 2006
I lived in St Austell as a child but my Uncle Ewart and Aunt Ruby farmed at Trescoll Farm, Lockengate. From a very early age I spent every holiday with them and although only four or five years old at the time, I remember well and fondly those wartime years, the Land Army girls and the two shire horses. (The first... [more]
Shared on 08 January 2008
Evacuee in this beautiful village of Luxulyan.
I was very fortunate to be evacuated to this beautiful village at the beginning of World War Two. I remember being lined up in the village hall with about fifteen other evacuees. My elder sister was with me, she was eight years old and I was five. My future mum and dad was to be Mr and Mrs Parker, I can't... [more]
Shared on 02 November 2008
Samuel Treglown worked as landlord at the Swan Hotel during the 1950s. He is an ancestor of mine I am currently researching. His photo has appeared in Wadebridge Memories by Peter Tutthill, but with no date. He also was a great sportsman and boxer. Would love info or photos. He has a son called John who has an interest in wrestling... [more]
Shared on 09 May 2007
On July 12th 1944, the day after my 8th birthday, my sister Maureen and I were evacuated from London to St Breward to live with Arthur and Ethel Hawken of Lower Lank. They were wonderful to us and cared for us with love and affection. We stayed for one year, returning to London and our family in 1945 when the war... [more]
Shared on 11 April 2009
Extracts From Bodmin & Cornwall books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Bodmin, inspired by Frith photos.
Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
Lads of all ages pose in groups for the camera in this traffic-free scene, with the turret clock at the lower end of the street. Two ox heads above granite pillars on the left indicate the Market House entrance, erected in 1840 for meat, poultry and butter. Three advertisements proclaim Colmans products high on the shop building on the right.
This is an extract from Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories.
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Churches of East Cornwall Photographic Memories
This was the chantry chapel of St Thomas Becket, licensed 18 March 1377 in the reign of Edward III. It was in use as a grammar school from about 1566 to 1853, and since became ruinous. The arch below the porch on the left leads to a vaulted crypt. The ruin stands just to the east of Bodmin church; it is still in... [more]
This is an extract from Churches of East Cornwall Photographic Memories.
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Lanhydrock House, once the seat of the Robartes family, is now one of the National Trust's best-loved Cornish properties. The north wing on the right is dated 1636, and contains an impressive long gallery with a decorated plaster ceiling. The rest of the house and the south wing were badly damaged in a fire in 1881, but they were rebuilt in... [more]
This is an extract from Cornwall County Memories.
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