"Cornwall County Memories" is one of 7 titles in the new County Memories series from The Francis Frith Collection. This wonderful paperback showcases Cornwall's unique story with fine historical photographs, maps, traditional recipes, heritage and industry, archaeology, fascinating local facts and folklore.

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"Cornwall County Memories" is bursting with information snippets and local facts about Cornwall. Learn about the Helston Furry Dance and the Padstow 'Obby 'Oss,  the ancient monuments of Cornwall,  the fishing, mining and china clay industries,  to name just a few! Read on for a few of the fascinating "Did you know...?" facts from the book.

• The Making of an Archive
• Cornwall County Map
• Cornwall - An Introduction
• The Tamar and The East
• Ancient Cornwall
• From Fowey to Falmouth
• Making a Living
• The Lizard and the Far West
• Cornish Food and Recipes
• The North Coast
• Voucher for a Free Mounted Print

• ISBN: 1-84589-113-9
• Written by Peter Stanier
• Printed to order and Despatched in 3-5 days
• Add your own inscription! - tell me more...
• 144 pages, Paperback

• The pilchard fisheries of Cornwall were considered so important that an Admiralty edict of the 18th century stated that no pilchard men were to be press-ganged.
• One of the most famous of Cornwall's ancient monuments, dating back to Neolithic times, is "Men an Tol", which means "stone of the hole". Inevitably, legends and myths concerning its use abound; it is said that children were passed through the hole to cure rickets and skin diseases. Adults who were sufficiently slim could ward off fevers by crawling through the hole nine times against the sun.
• The county gaol on the northern edge of Bodmin was used for the safekeeping of the Domesday Book and the Crown Jewels during the First World War.
• The town of Marazion was known in Victorian times for its cultivation of a particularly delicious species of turnip.
• The last natural speaker of the Cornish language was Dorothy "Dolly" Pentraeth. She died in 1777 and is commemorated with a memorial in the churchyard of the village of Paul in the far west of the county.
• The Huer's House at Newquay was where the "huer" waited to spot incoming pilchard shoals. He would raise the alarm by crying "Heva! Heva!" and shouting through speaking trumpets, and would use signals to direct the fishing fleet to the shoal out in the bay. The word "hue" is now obsolete apart from the phrase "hue and cry", but was used in former times to describe a loud clamour or public outcry.

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