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Percuil, Cornwall
Percuil maps
Historic maps of Percuil and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Percuil maps
Historic map of Percuil
Illustrated Victorian map of Cornwall
Historic Map of any Percuil postcode
Percuil books
Displaying 3 of 12 books about Percuil and the local area. View all Percuil books
Cornwall County Memories
Paperback
rrp £15
£12
Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
Paperback
rrp £14
£11.20
Helston Photographic Memories
Paperback
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£10.40
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Memories of Percuil
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My pop's father was the Percuil ferryman for the St Mawes Steam Ship Co. My pop was the youngest ferryman taking people from Percuil to the ferry. He was in the local paper in the early 1900s for being the youngest ferryman in Cornwall. There was a photograph taken of him at the time, if anybody has any info on this... [more]
Shared on 08 April 2009
My grandfather (William Bryant) built a houseboat and moored it in Percuil Creek where he, my grandmother and my mother would spend their summers in the 40s. My grandfather and his wife Dorothy were both born in Falmouth in 1902/1903 and my mother Patricia was born in Falmouth in 1932. My grandfather was a shipwright working in Falmouth dockyard... [more]
Shared on 12 June 2008
Cornwall memories
This is Lower Castle Road and the second cottage which is a slightly darker colour belonged to my parents-in-law, Edward and Nancy Honeyman-Brown. They originally lived in Essex but had taken their holidays in Porthscatho for many years taking hours and hours travelling through the night with their two young sons. On one such visit when the boys had grown up... [more]
Shared on 23 February 2008
I was in Portscatho with my mother on 15th August 1945 (V-J Day). I can remember the singing and dancing by the harbour wall. We were staying with frieds whom I have lost contact with.
Shared on 08 December 2008
My grandfather and his family all lived in Busvannah. Alfred Charles Thomas was born in 1887 (according the family bible which has been passed down to me as the last survivor carrying the name). He had a number of brothers and sisters: I seem to remember that Henry was gassed in the Great War, and only died in the 1930's. As... [more]
Shared on 31 December 2007
I was evacuated in 1939 to Devoran, and was billeted with a family by the name of Eddy, my three sisters and myself. We were only there for about two months before we were all taken down with scabies, we all went off tp Perranporth isolation ward, we were all kept in hospital untill we were better, and then went back... [more]
Shared on 16 January 2009
My father Cornelius Henry Johns (Naily to everyone who knew him) was born in the little Round House on the left of the photo. He was the youngest of a large family, and there were 11 people living there in 1899. They then moved to Caragloose Farm, where his father and older brothers worked for Colliver Blamey. Colliver lived at Pennare... [more]
Shared on 30 November 2008
Extracts From Percuil & Cornwall books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Percuil, inspired by Frith photos.
This is the site of an ancient ferry crossing; it linked Portscatho and Gerrans on one side of the Percuil River with St Mawes on the other. It became a landing place for pleasure steamers disembarking passengers, some of whom might walk over the narrow peninsula to visit the open coast at Portscatho.
This is an extract from Cornwall County Memories.
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Mullion takes its name from St Melaine, the 6th- century Bishop of Rennes, who excommunicated two British priests who went to preach on his patch. St Mellion, at the other end of the county, is also named after him.
This is an extract from Helston Photographic Memories.
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More correctly known as the Loe (meaning 'pool' in Cornish), this mile- long freshwater lake was formed in the 13th century when the River Cober became dammed by a sand and shingle bar - Loe Bar.
This is an extract from Helston Photographic Memories.
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