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Goonhilly Downs maps
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Edward Moyle
This bridge shop for many years was run by my great uncle Edward Moyle who lived in Sunnyside, Gweek.
Ancestors Village Church
I don't have any memories but tracing my family tree I have discovered that a branch of my family came from Manaccan, Bowchers and Urens. So its nice to see what the church was like.
Carol
Ancestors
I do not have any memories of Manaccan, but my gt gt grandmother Mary Glasson was living there when she married my gt gt grandfather in 1825. Sadly I have not been able to trace her parents or their origins. Mary died in 1844 from a cerebal haemorrhage and her husband later married Ursula Kempthorne who also came from Manaccan. I wonder how much the church has changed since those days.
St. Gorran's School
I went to school here at this house, Machan. It was used as a school from the early fifties to the middle sixties. The house itself was built in the art deco style, possibly in the years immediately before the war, or at latest in the late forties. Most of the students were boarders with a few day school pupils. At holiday times other youngsters came and boarded for the summer holidays. For a time I was the oldest boy there and was rewarded with my own room,for a time at the "Lodge" and then at a self contained flat over the ten car garage. I often wonder if there are any old students about who might remember me and those times. I have never been back since leaving, Australia being my home for the past 44 years.
Kennack
I have been coming to Kennack since I was a toddler. But 1972 was the first of many years that stand out to me. My family met another family and we are still in touch now, 36 years and more later.
My memories are so many, borrowing beach donkeys and going off on safaris, making dens, rope swings across rivers. Getting lunch out of the hedge, black berries and toejam etc.
Memories of running around the costal path to Cadgwith, walking to the Draw Bar. boat trips on the Hairy Fairy. Floral day, Carn Brae pool when it was first built, Horse and Jockey, pastrys. Clotted cream eaten right from tub with fingers - no jam or scone. Swimming in Kennack Bay, body surfing on wooden boards, helping out in the beach cafe, etc etc
Now I scuba dive and learnt to dive on the Lizard at Poth Kerris and Porthaulstock. I still return to my favourite place. Long may Kennack stay as it is, unspoilt and... Read more
Serpentine Factory Poltesco
While resident in the area I was given a story about the demise of the factory which I visited many times but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.
The factory specialised in large serpentine objects with elaborate and highly polished finishes. In particular very grand fireplaces were produced for big houses. According to the story that i received in Cadgwith, the factory received a very large order for a chateau in France. All production and all assets were geared to this task and eventually a barge was hired to transport the fireplaces. En route the barge was lost, possibly in a storm and all its cargo lost which was uninsured. The loss was too much for the little factory and it had to close. I cannot give a date for this event but it was suggested about the turn of the century.
I Lived Here...
The large house to the right of the picture is called Barclay House, it's also St Keverne garage. We moved there in late 1979 and lived there for 3 years, having to leave it behind and move back to the north west due to family problems. We bought the house from Pat Johnson who had lived there with her husband.
Looking back now, it's heart breaking that we had to leave behind this idyllic, beautiful part of the country. I try to go back to visit at least once in every 5 years as a part of my heart will always belong in St Keverne Square.
Nowadays the square has parking lines painted all over it, but the building itself hasn't altered one bit, infact when I look around the pictures on this site I can recognise most of the scenes, so little has changed.
