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  • Part of the Cornish contingent, including the Bolingey Troylers, and Benjad (3rd from left)

    Cornish shine at Pan-Celtic

    Posted on 20 April 2012 | No Comments
    by Anne Kennedy Truscott The 41st International Pan Celtic Festival, Carlow, Ireland Last week the town of Carlow in Ireland was festooned in Celtic flags, placards, banners and bunting to welcome the arrival  of the 41st International Pan Celtic Festival – and its many participants...
  • Looe from above Marine Drive, 1910

    The South East Corner of Cornwall

    Posted on 13 March 2012 | No Comments
    - by Tom Bowden This article is about a journey from Cremyll Point in Plymouth Sound to Looe many years ago. I have drawn a rough map of the area to guide everyone and selected fifteen old picture postcard views to illustrate places on our...
  • The Hamoaze from Empacombe near Mount Edgcumbe, 1904

    The Hamoaze

    Posted on 14 February 2012 | No Comments
    - by Tom Bowden I was born in Torpoint on the River Tamar and across the river from Plymouth. My Sketch of the River Tamar shows that the part of the river opposite Devonport Dockyard is known as The Hamoaze. The River Tamar, of course,...
  • [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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    Come to Cornwall!

    Posted on 2 August 2011 | No Comments
    ‘Come to Cornwall’, By Tom Bowden - In 2008 I tried to get an article in the Readers Column of Golf Monthly magazine. There was a small prize but the article had to fit into one page and be no more than 1000 words and...
  • Awen Ceremony Boscawen Un 26th June 20110056

    Boscawen-Un, Cornish Bards, and the ‘Arwen’

    Posted on 7 July 2011 | No Comments
     
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