The Town Library of Ipswich Provided for the Use of the Town Preachers in 1599: A History and Catalogue (The
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, killed trying to defuse improvised explosive in Afghanistan, to be buried in Truro cathedral The funeral of one of the most high-profile casualties of the conflict in Afghanistan, bomb disposal expert Staff Sergeant Olaf "Oz" Schmid, is taking place in his native Cornwall today. Schmid, 30, was killed last month as he neared the end of a tour in which he made...
Called to the bar (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Modern life has too many choices, low-fat, skimmed, free range, organic, biodynamic, cold-filtered and so on — I don’t like it but come Saturday November 28th I will be faced with two choices too many. First of all this is the day of the St Austell Beer Festiva l, a roisterous and rumbustious celebration of beer and Cornishness at the old Victorian brewery that overlooks the town —...
countsandnuonces (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
I have so far created a number of new images for 'Nil Desperandum', a show at Knill House, St Ives, Cornwall. These works are still to be completed and then collaged. i am working to the following text. "Amongst the bequests are no less than fifty - six gold rmgs, of five guineas each, distributed on neai'ly equal ntimbers to friends and relations. Those intended for the ladies are mounted with...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Teenagers accused of manslaughter of woman in Bodmin blaze Three teenagers appeared in court today charged with causing the death of a woman in a house fire. Mary Fox, 59, was trapped in her bedroom at her home in Bodmin, Cornwall, while her 17-year-old son, Raum, escaped the blaze on bonfire night. Ryan Croft, 18, Samual Luckes and Owen Hewitt, both 17, of Bodmin, appeared before the town's magistrates...
St Ives Cornwall (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Trims Greengrocers - Now Sadly Closed I was really surprised when I got back from holiday in Spain to discover that another long established shop in town has closed - Trims Greengrocers. I don't know the full story but I heard that they closed down suddenly, with only a couple of days notice. Also that they're closed for good. If you know any different let me know. That leaves us with just one specialist...
The Adventures of a Cornish Walker (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The early bus took us to Perran, and then we hopped upstairs on the next bus - double decker - for a great ride to St Ives - amazing what you can see from up there! View from St Ives bus stop We got to St Ives about 10, picking up a pasty as we walked through the town. St Ives Harbour It was lovely to be there without crowds of tourists! Porthminster Beach We walked out onto the headland, round to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
• Stein proposes Falmouth takeaway and restaurant • Mixture of grumbles and guarded welcome in town His restaurants and shops are already so dominant in the Cornish port of Padstow that, to the chagrin of many locals, it has been nicknamed "Padstein". Now the celebrity chef Rick Stein is planning to extend his foodie empire a little further west and south to Falmouth, until now...
Triple Pundit (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
On any given day, you’re likely to find a small team of product designers, material developers and scrappy marketers holed up in a converted mine building in the town of St. Agnes on the North Cornwall coast—unless, of course, the surf is good. At those times, you’re more likely to see these folks, who operate [...]
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
The P.E.I. Department of Health has applied to the Town of Cornwall to set up a group home in the west end of the community.
Female of the Species (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
On Sunday Jon, Biggles and I set off for a Sunday jaunt into Cornwall which culminated in a walk in the fresh air along the coast. The afternoon was not without one or two brushes with nature of the sort that don’t usually occur in one’s everyday travels. Gweek At one point, while driving through one of those natural arbours where the tree boughs shake hands with each other overhead something...
Moonwalking - Discovering Britain by Full Moon (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
This week I'm in Cornwall. Ten days away from my moonwriting desk. All because of a beer festival on a Saturday and a moonwalk nine days later. It's a great chance to return to my moon roots: Falmouth being the home of my first moonwalking adventure over 18 months ago. And thankfully not much has changed - though there is a new Lidl on the outskirts of town, and a Sainsbury's. But ambling along the...
upside down in cloud (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In October 1996, Weymouth Bay was home to a fleet of ramshackle Russian factory ships, and Weymouth harbour was crowded with fishing boats, a large proportion of which came from the Scottish east coast. The fishing boats offloaded their catch onto the factory ships. The Scottish trawlermen introduced Irn Bru to various Weymouth bars, not least of which being The Moorings, where we ferry people used...
wordslikepictures (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
How cute is this house? And if you look closely you can see the sea! It's in one of my favourite parts of the UK, down in Devon. I like Cornwall and Kent is beautiful but Devon has this irristable charm. My Great Uncle used to have the best little place in the middle of Torquay, I can still remember the bedroom I used to get when I stayed. My brother was way too small to get more than a cot, but my...
RupertStClair Photography (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
This photograph was taken looking south from Sidmouth which is a small town on the English Channel coast in Devon, South West England. The town lies at the mouth of the River Sid in the East Devon district, 15 miles (24 km) south east of Exeter. It... This is a content summary only. Visit the website for full links, other content, and more! If viewing this through Facebook, click "View original...
Scrapblog: a Writer from the South-West (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
The length of wild coastline between Ilfracombe in north Devon and Porlock, just over the border in Somerset, has attracted a bevy of women writers to seek its ragged contours. Not much surprise that writers would be drawn to the far reaches of the county as moths to a motivational light. The seascape presents awe inspiring, gut wrenching scenic dramas, whilst harbouring delicious sheltered coves and...
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