Polurrian Cliffs, Cornwall
Polurrian Cliffs photos
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Polurrian Cliffs maps
Historic maps of Polurrian Cliffs and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Polurrian Cliffs maps
Polurrian Cliffs books
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Memories of Polurrian Cliffs
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My sixth and last billet as an evacuee during World War II, was at Bodrigy, Cadgwith. Bodrigy was being run almost like a boarding school with about 20 children there, and a matron to oversee us. We all went to school in Ruan Minor, and we would walk across the fields to school. I loved living in that... [more]
Shared on 06 September 2006
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.... [more]
Shared on 10 November 2008
We moved to Cadgwith in 1979, the best move of our lives, everyone was so friendly. Our two boys grew up there and had the time of their lives fishing and playing on the beach. We were sad to leave in 1987 but will never forget Cadgwith. Steve and Shiela Thornton.
Shared on 03 July 2008
The shop on the right was run by my great-uncle Charles Johns, and the sweetshop next door by the Steps brothers, with Triggs shop on the left.
Shared on 23 May 2008
Does anyone remember Jeux Sans Frontiers being organised by Helston Rotary (I think) and held in and on Coronation Lake.
I attended Helston Grammar School during the 60s and lived with my parents Prisk and Phyllis Dale at The Gables Filling Station Trevenen.
Shared on 09 July 2008
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
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
Extracts From Polurrian Cliffs & Cornwall books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Polurrian Cliffs, inspired by Frith photos.
Cornwall A Century Ago Photographic Memories
Although this photograph was taken for the view of the hotel above the bathing beach, of special interest here is the group of four new radio masts out on Poldhu cliffs. This was the wireless station where Guglielmo Marconi first transmitted signals to Newfoundland in December 1901. The hotel was built in 1890 as a large boarding house for tourists; it... [more]
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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.
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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.
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