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Truro Town Walk Guide
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Cornwall Living Memories
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St Austell Bay Photographic Memories
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My mother ran Burraton Post Office from 1950 to about 1990 and sold Frith postcards. The cows are being driven by Mrs Cook, a farmer's wife, whose farm was about 300 yards behind the photographer in Liskeard Road, Burraton. The farm was called 'The Elms'. The farmhouse is still there, but is now an old peoples' home called The Elms. The farmland has been built on.
A memory of Burraton contributed by Mr Bob Drew
Donkey Halt.
The bungalow in the centre of the photograph is called Donkey Halt as when the carts of pilchards were taken up the hill by donkeys they stopped there for a rest before tackling the very steep hill to the main road at the top.
A memory of Crafthole contributed by Mrs T Malthouse
Music and memories
Is there anyone else who sang in Mrs Solomon's choir and went to Mr Pellymounter's school in St Dennis. I remember all the grownup ladies wearing their wedding dresses as we had to wear white. I was about four when I started to sing in the choir. My mother found some white silk and made me a dress that had enormous seams and hem, so that I was able to wear it for about four years. On one occasion I remember we sang in the main Methodist Hall in Plymouth. I also sang for Children's Hour from the BBC studios in Bristol. I think I was seven at the time. Mr Pellymounter had lots of friends in the theatre, among them ...read more here
A memory of St Dennis contributed by JUDITH ANN JENSEN MORRIS
Evacuee Memory
My brother Bryan and I were evacuated to St. Day in 1940 and I spent three happy years there before reluctantly returning to London in 1943. We lived with Mr. and Mrs. Batty who ran a Hardware Shop on the corner of Fore Street. Mr Batty was, during my stay, Chairman of the Camborne and Redruth Urban District Council, We attended St. Day School, Headmaster Mr. Blewitt, teachers Mr. Webster and Miss Opie. The Batty family had a small farm in the village run by a family member, Maude Roper. My after school duties were numerous, delivering charged Accumulators to homes as far away as Scorrier, walking both ways, collecting potato peelings etc. from local homes to be mixed with feed ...read more here
A memory of St Day contributed by Gerard Mos
Extracts From Kellow & Cornwall books
This ancient town crowns the steep hill above the valley of the River Kensey. Here we see the broad market place, with its pleasing facades of 17th- and 18th-century slate-roofed buildings. In the centre there was once a circular Market Hall, where farmers and their wives gathered to buy and sell local produce. This has long since been demolished, and the area today is usually clogged by parked cars. The war memorial on the left is in the form of a market cross, and its foundation stone was laid in 1921 by the Prince of Wales.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
At this date the building of the new 12-arched viaduct across the Tamar is nearly finished, and the construction yard can be seen below on the Devon (right) bank. After opening in March 1908, the inhabitants of Calstock and the Callington area could travel by train direct to Plymouth. The tall chimney on the left is at the Calstock fire brick works.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
This long straggling village, in the centre of the old tin mining district, sits on a steep hill running down to the Tamar. We are at the bottom of Fore Street looking towards Newbridge Hill. An earlier Frith view from 1908 shows that the buildings have hardly changed, although the scene looks very different today. Where there was once a plain, dusty street there is now tarmac, with pavements built out into the road for traffic-calming. On the extreme left is the Buccaneer, once Bond's Hotel.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
Cremyll has long been a crossing place from the Rame peninsula to the Devon side of the Tamar estuary. The old HMS ‘Impregnable’, moored in this stretch of water opposite Devonport Dockyard, was a training ship for boys. A 98-gun ship of the line, she was launched at Chatham in 1810 and took part in the bombardment of Algiers six years later.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
A steam train arrives from Plymouth via the Calstock viaduct soon after the new standard gauge line was fully opened in March 1908. Note the engine shed and the load gauge in the goods yard. The station was at Kelly Bray, just north of the town, and it survived until 1966. On the skyline stands the monumental mine chimney at the summit of Kit Hill.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".