St Mawes
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St Mawes books (9 available)
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St Mawes memories
The start of my quest
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 they saw this cottage for sale, it needed complete modernisation but they took on the challenge and turned it into the most lovely cottage. Edward lived for 5 years loving every moment here and spent most of his time visiting all the churches trying to put a family tree together for his wife whose ancestors had originally come from Truro, ...read more here
Contributed by Andrea Honeyman-Brown
Cornwall memories
The start of my quest
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 they saw this cottage for sale, it needed complete modernisation but they took on the challenge and turned it into the most lovely cottage. Edward lived for 5 years loving every moment here and spent most of his time visiting all the churches trying to put a family tree together for his wife whose ancestors had originally come from Truro, ...read more here
A memory of St Mawes contributed by Andrea Honeyman-Brown
My grandparents Houseboat
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 and they also lived in Mylor Bridge. They all spent most of their lives in boats in and around Mylor and Falmouth. My sister and I spent our childhood in Mylor Bridge in the 50's and early 60's and regularly visit Falmouth and family members.If anyone has information about my family, I would love to hear from ...read more here
A memory of Percuil contributed by Elizabeth Seward (Bryant)
damn good lodgings
go to blacksmiths cottage for fine fayre
A memory of Mylor contributed by susan petrozzi
Extracts From St Mawes & Cornwall books
St Mawes is one of the coastal defence castles built by Henry VIII in the 1540s. It has a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf. The circular keep has four floors, and the approach from the landward side is by way of a drawbridge. St Mawes is sited on lower ground ‘the better to annoy shipping’.
An extract from from"50 Classics - Castles".
St Mawes comprises a central tower and three smaller lobes, so that from the air it resembles a clover leaf. The circular keep is taller than that at Pendennis, and contains four floors; the approach from the landward side is by way of a drawbridge. St Mawes is sited on lower ground ‘the better to annoy shipping’.
An extract from from"English Castles".
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.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
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.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".
Here we see almost the
same view as picture No
53046, but how things
have changed. Telegraph
poles, road signs and the
car indicate the
communication
revolution. There is also
a plethora of tobacco
advertising - Capstan,
Craven ‘A’, Players and
Senior Service - which
would not be seen today.
An extract from from"Helston Photographic Memories".







