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Manaccan, Cornwall
Manaccan maps
Historic maps of Manaccan and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Manaccan maps
Historic map of Manaccan
Illustrated Victorian map of Cornwall
Historic Map of any Manaccan postcode
Manaccan books
Displaying 3 of 11 books about Manaccan and the local area. View all Manaccan books
Cornwall County Memories
Paperback
£15
Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
Paperback
£14
Helston Photographic Memories
Paperback
£13
4 Manaccan photos appear in 3 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Manaccan
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I remember coming to live at Barclay House in the September with my sister Rachel and my Mum and Dad. We moved from Sutton Coldfield because Dad no longer wanted to work as a garage mechanic for someone else, and he wanted to own his own garage. Mum was not at all keen as she was leaving her friends behind, but... [more]
Shared on 15 February 2008
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.
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Shared on 28 May 2007
In 1969 I was 15 and quit school. I was hitch hiking and ended up in Coverack. I was drinking in the local pub, the Paris Hotel I think, when some construction guys offered me a job digging ditches and laying sewer pipes. It was summer, and the foreman had rented a field from a local farmer. He lived in a... [more]
Shared on 29 October 2009
While still at Helston Grammar School, I worked at the Headland Hotel during one summer. Pickles was the manager, he was a tyrant but I seemed to get the better of him. I wrecked the lawn-mower running over a rock while pushing it up and down those front lawns in the picture, he tried to make me pay for it out... [more]
Shared on 07 October 2008
Extracts From Manaccan & Cornwall books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Manaccan, inspired by Frith photos.
This hilltop village overlooks the head of Gillan Creek at the northern edges of the Lizard, close by the Helford River. The simple white-washed cottages are grouped irregularly about the church of St Menacca, their gardens bright with red valerian.
This is an extract from Cornwall Memories.
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Cornish Coast Photographic Memories
Gillan Creek, just south of the mouth of the Helford River, is remote enough for smuggling to have been carried on here into the late 19th century, long after the crackdown in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars which sounded the death knell for 'free trading', as it was euphemistically known.
This is an extract from Cornish Coast Photographic Memories.
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Cornish Coast Photographic Memories
Beyond Dennis Head, on the opposite shore, is the mouth of the Helford River, which runs inland for five miles to Gweek. Its heavily wooded creeks were a favourite venue for smugglers, and include perhaps the most famous inlet of all - Frenchman's Creek, made famous by Daphne du Maurier.
This is an extract from Cornish Coast Photographic Memories.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
