Cawsand memories
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Rame Peninsula Through Time
I am currently compiling a book for Amberley Publishing called 'The Rame Peninsula Through Time'. The book will feature 90 old photos and 90 new photos. The new photos will all be in colour. I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to lend me and old personal photos they have of the area? Email copies would be fine. I think it will prove to be a very interesting and attractive book when it's completed. Thanks for any help anyone can give me, it's much appreciated. Best wishes, Derek Tait. derek.tait@virgin.net
Summer 1967
You werent dreaming Patricia! - they were there and they are still there from Easter to the end of September. They are on the beach walking from Cawsand to Kingsand and then on for half a mile or so towards Plymouth.
They are as loved now as they ever were.
Best Wishes
Gillian
Summer 1967
When I was three or four years old I visited Cawsand for a family holiday. I remember it very clearly because, for various reasons, it was the only holiday we all went on together. I am hoping someone might be able to solve an on-going mystery. We stayed in a wooden-framed canvas chalet which was set, with about eight or so others, on a concrete plinth reached by steps up from the beach. There were no loos (only the ones just up from the beach) and no electric lights - just paraffin lamps. The 'rooms' were divided by canvas walls (it can't have been much of a holiday for my mum and dad!). I distinctly remember that the part of the beach where the chalet was set was made up of flat rocks, not sand or shale, and that there was an out-crop of rocks and then the other part of the beach (to the right if you were looking at it from the sea) was sand and shale. I... Read more
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Kingsand
I was born in the village in 1924 and have a a lifelong treasury of memories of this lovely twin village, suggest you visit Rame Heritage or Village Family Tree sites for an informed guide by local historians - Jack Ford.
Cawsand
My family has been conected to Kingsand and Cawsand since the 1700s, and before, I expect. My family names are Colmer, Skinner, Prest (Millbrook) and Booth. I am very proud to be part of this forgotton corner of Cornwall.
Polhawn Fort
This rare building was owned by a close friend of mine's aunt and uncle. Their names were Mr and Mrs Honour. Their daughter Jean had a type of drapers shop down in Cawsand. This structure was a castle-style Napoleonic fort set in the head at Rame and it still had all the dungeons intact, even the prisoners' graffiti on the walls. Also it had its own billiards hall on one of the lower floors. It had a long drive down from road level, the Ford Anglia used to puff a bit going up, as they had a big Vauxhall 14hp they didn't notice it. Mr Honour was the sextant at Maker with Rame church apart from his normal duties at Devonport naval base. Colin A.
Millbrook
All ways visited when i was young 1962 upwards
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