Liskeard
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Map of Cornwall
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Truro Town Walk Guide
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St Austell Bay Photographic Memories
Paperback
Newquay to St Ives Photographic Memories
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Liskeard memories
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School sports days at Liskeard
I grew up in Moorswater and went to Liskeard Sec. I have many great memories of my days there. I was lucky enough to be very successful at sport but my first taste of athletics will stay long in my memory. It took place at the interschool sports at Brickfields, I was in the junior boys 70 yards hurdles. The gun went and at the first hurdle I tripped and fell. Picking myself up, amazingly I still managed to finish second, I will always remember our headmaster Mr Andrews' beaming smile at the finish. I went on to represent East Cornwall at Par and without falling became county champion. How different things might have been if I hadn't got up and ...read more here
Contributed by john hewitt
Village Cricket
I lived in Plymouth at the time and our family spent two or three holidays in the village of Darite, the years would be around 1951-3. My father would organise a cricket game in the field where the Quoit stands, we would play three or four times a week and a lot of the local lads would join in. My mother would sit beneath on the base stones and do her knitting. Although it's over 50 years ago my sisters and I have many happy memories of this area.
Contributed by John Stanyon
BOOTS THE CHEMIST
I own part of the building which is the second one on the left of the photo. Many years ago there was another building on the end, on the corner of Market St and Well Lane. Our building is now the Fat Frog Cafe and lots of customers come in and tell us that our cafe used to be Boots. However, from some of the more recent photos we can see that the building which is now gone was Boots. We think that the Fat Frog (also previously The Heron Bar) used to be Home and Colonial. The Heron Bar was only part of the ground floor the other part being William Hills Bookmakers.
We ...read more here
Contributed by Lynda Gale
Cornwall memories
School sports days at Liskeard
I grew up in Moorswater and went to Liskeard Sec. I have many great memories of my days there. I was lucky enough to be very successful at sport but my first taste of athletics will stay long in my memory. It took place at the interschool sports at Brickfields, I was in the junior boys 70 yards hurdles. The gun went and at the first hurdle I tripped and fell. Picking myself up, amazingly I still managed to finish second, I will always remember our headmaster Mr Andrews' beaming smile at the finish. I went on to represent East Cornwall at Par and without falling became county champion. How different things might have been if I hadn't got up and ...read more here
A memory of Liskeard contributed by john hewitt
Extracts From Liskeard & Cornwall books
On Bodmin Moor stands the spectcular burial mound Trethevy Quoit. It contained two chambers for the dead and was originally covered by a large oval mound; this was last recorded in the 19th century, but has now been obliterated by man and time. Six uprights form the walls, and the massive capstone is 11 feet long. The name Trethevy means ‘place of the dead’.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
Six uprights form the walls, and the massive capstone is 11. feet long. The name Trethevy means ‘place of the dead’.
An extract from from"Ancient Monuments and Stone Circles Photographic Memories".
Three Bronze Age stone circles on Bodmin Moor are called the Hurlers, set amongst the old tin mines. They stand in line, and are all over 100 feet in diameter. It is unusual that the stones have been crudely shaped and are roughly of the same size. They are named ‘Hurlers’ because it is said that those who profaned the Lord’s Day by hurling a ball were turned into stone. Cheesewring Hill can be seen on the horizon.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".
Three Bronze Age stone circles on Bodmin Moor are called the Hurlers, set amongst the old tin mines. They stand in line, and are all over 100 feet in diameter. It is unusual that the stones have been crudely shaped and are roughly of the same size. They are named ‘Hurlers’ because it is said that those who profaned the Lord’s Day by hurling the ball were turned into stone. Cheesewring Hill can be seen on the horizon.
An extract from from"Ancient Monuments and Stone Circles Photographic Memories".
Just as it does today, the Italianate clock tower of the Guildhall dominates this view looking towards the steep Pike Street. All is quiet save for a trader making a delivery. No shoppers are attracted to either Morcom’s printers, stationers and fancy warehouse on the left, or to Wenmoth’s typical hardware and ironmonger’s shop opposite.
An extract from from"Cornwall County Memories".