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The Hamoaze from Empacombe near Mount Edgcumbe, 1904 The Hamoaze - by Tom Bowden I was born in Torpoint on the River Tamar and across the river from Plymouth. My...
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  • [The restored 1872 Wesleyan Chapel, designed by former Penzance Architect Thomas Rowe]

    A Cornish Settlement

    Posted on 17 December 2011 | No Comments
    On the afternoon of Sunday 18 December, 2011 members of the small local rural community and a few Cornish from much further a-field will again gather at the Byng Uniting Church for a simple Christmas Carol service and afternoon tea. The story behind this ordinary...
  • Robert Stephen Hawker c.1875

    Rev. Robert Stephen Hawker

    Posted on 15 November 2011 | 1 Comment
    by Tom Bowden - Robert Stephen Hawker was born on 3rd December 1803 in Plymouth and he was the son of a doctor. Robert then went on to Oxford University where he won the Newdigate Prize for Poetry. His father could not continue to support...
  • [Artists depiction of a battle scene from northern Britain in the 700s]

    Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil?

    Posted on 19 October 2011 | No Comments
    Cornish Britons won their future at the battle of Hehil - by Rob Simmons In the beginning of the eighth century, the old British Celtic kingdom of Dumnonia was in the midst of a titanic struggle against the expansionist Saxon kingdom of Wessex. Both kingdoms...
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    My Torpoint Bomb

    Posted on 30 September 2011 | No Comments
    by Tom Bowden - During the blitz on Plymouth in 1941 I found a bomb and then I lost it. That was 70 years ago and I thought it was about time that I put out another appeal for its return. I was born in...
  • Visiting Bard and 'Town Crier' Howard Curnow, with Albert Jenkin (Tommi O'Hagan talking with gent on right)

    Cry of Tin to Shake Rag Alley – ’twas Cornish Cousins!

    Posted on 9 September 2011 | 1 Comment
    - ONE of the wonderful things about being of Cornish birth or ancestry is that (almost everywhere) in this wide world the sun never sets on a Pasty!  … Or more seriously, on people being proud of the strong (or even scanty) threads of Cornish...
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      14 February 2012 4:33 AM | 1 Comment
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      16 December 2011 7:26 AM | No Comments
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      25 November 2011 1:15 PM | No Comments
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      19 October 2011 1:59 AM | No Comments
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      18 October 2011 12:35 AM | No Comments
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      02 December 2011 1:29 AM | No Comments
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      20 November 2011 1:47 AM | No Comments
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      27 October 2011 5:32 AM | No Comments
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      21 September 2011 3:24 AM | No Comments
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  • BEYOND THE NEWS
    • Assembly_petit Secrets on Cornwall’s Devolution Petition may be blocked
      09 February 2012 6:43 AM | No Comments

      With Mebyon Kernow, Plaid Cymru, and others calling the current UK government to account for the inaction of its predecessors over a call by 50,000 of the Cornish public in 2002 for a devolution referendum – it appears Mr Cameron’s Government may now be complicit...

    • Large longhorn cattle graze on Cornish moorlands where animals of that size they have never grazed before Yippee Ti-Yi-Yo, English Nature’s got to go
      23 December 2011 6:41 AM | No Comments

      The UK Quango, called Natural England, (aka English Nature) is an Executive Non-departmental Public Body responsible to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. “Our purpose is to protect and improve England’s natural environment and encourage people to enjoy and get involved...

    • Assembly_petit 10 Years on – Petition for a Cornish Assembly
      16 December 2011 7:33 AM | No Comments

      Councillor Cole said that “Today (10 December, 2011) marks the tenth anniversary of the presentation of 50,000 Declarations for a Cornish Assembly to 10 Downing Street. Getting over 50,000 people to show their support for a Cornish Assembly in less than twenty months was a truly...

    • Peter_Berresford_Ellis Cornish Celts exist, says Prof Peter Beresford Ellis
      31 October 2011 11:32 AM | No Comments

      The Celtic Nations, 1961- 2011, a Sea Change? Some personal views, by Professor Peter Beresford Ellis Below is the text of the presentation about the Celtic League which was prepared by leading Celticist, historian and author, Peter Beresford Ellis and presented on his behalf to...

  • THE COLUMN – OPINION
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    Craig Weatherhill: Arrogant Qangos Must Go!

    admin | 30 October 2011 | Leave a response

    A Penzance archaeologist and historian has joined with Cornish MP George Eustice in calling for ‘English’ Heritage to be replaced, in Cornwall, with a locally based body. Craig Weatherhill, author of several books, papers and articles, is exasperated by what he terms: “This arrogant quango’s…

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    Craig Weatherhill: Sacred Stones v Sacred Cows (Saving Penwith Moors)

    kevrenor | 26 June 2011 | Leave a response

    IF someone took a wrecking ball to the Tower of London, there’d be an uproar, and rightly so. But, in West Cornwall, an unelected quango moves in and, in spite of intense local concerns – including those of elected local councils – imposes a scheme…

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    AV rejected but electoral and constitutional reform still needed

    kevrenor | 12 May 2011 | 1 Response

    The UK wide referendum on the proposed introduction of an optional preferential Alternative Vote (AV) system last week resulted in a clear rejection of, in Deputy PM Nick Clegg’s pre-election terms, “a miserable little compromise” to the hoped for proportional representation system. It however cannot…

    Stephen Richardson: Not So Delectable Duchy…

    admin | 31 January 2011 | 1 Response

    The Duchy of Cornwall was created in 1337 by a Royal Charter of Edward III. The Charter confirmed the status of Cornwall as being extra-territorial to England. Today there is much controversy about the importance of the Duchy. Is it just a ‘quirk’ of ancient history that has no purpose other than the purely ceremonial or is it the constitutional and legal basis of a Cornwall independent of England? Read more

  • REVIEWS, VERSE, AND MISCELLANY
    • AB_Tamar New Book and Review – River Tamar Through Time
      03 December 2011 9:30 AM | No Comments

      Cornwall24.net e-magazine has been kindly provided with a copy of a new book by publisher Amberley books, to review. The flyer that accompanied the request indicates it is the latest title in Amberley’s extensive and highly successful Through Time series, in full colour, bringing history...

    • Winner Kan rag Kernow 2011 – Benjad
      18 November 2011 9:51 AM | No Comments

      The Kan rag Kernow (Song for Cornwall) is a song competition to find a song in Kernewek, the Cornish language, to represent Cornwall at the Pan Celtic Festival in Ireland next year. The Kan rag Kernow 2011 took place in Porthtowan Village Hall on Saturday...

    • [http://www.brendawootton.com/] Brenda is back! New CD “All of Me!”
      01 November 2010 12:28 PM | 3 Comments

      New BRENDA WOOTTON Album – ‘All Of Me’ – CD NOW AVAILABLE! The discovery of the master tapes of this concert, recorded in 1984, has provided the material for the first new album by Brenda in fifteen years and marks a significant time when she...

  • MEDIA RELEASES
    • Mebyon_Kernow [Mebyon Kernow] Paul Ellis for Bodmin Town Council By-Election
      09 February 2012 4:39 AM | No Comments
    • [Save Penwith Moors] Libel allegation against Cornwall Council
      17 January 2012 6:42 AM | No Comments
    • cows3 All lawful UK complaint procedures exhausted on moor ‘vandalism’
      17 December 2011 5:47 AM | No Comments
    • sixtyth [Mebyon Kernow] Conference 2011 next weekend
      15 November 2011 8:22 AM | No Comments
    • penwith_moors_map [Save Penwith Moors] 2.5% is too much for ‘not-natural England’
      09 November 2011 2:20 AM | No Comments
    • Loveday 2011 Loveday Jenkin seeks your support to represent Wendron on Cornwall Council
      28 October 2011 11:17 PM | No Comments
    • Mebyon_Kernow Mebyon Kernow national conference next month
      27 October 2011 6:00 AM | No Comments
    • celticcleague [Celtic League] Media prejudice against Celts
      29 September 2011 7:25 AM | No Comments
    • celticcleague [Celtic League] Time for a tourist tax?
      21 September 2011 6:30 AM | No Comments
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