Tag: memorial

In Launceston, Throwing Stones at Mary Magdalene

July 6, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Living as I do in Mid Cornwall sometimes it can feel that I am a long way from anywhere in either direction. If I take a trip ‘down west’ then I like to make a day of it and take a picnic. And the same must be said for the other direction too. There would […]

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Trencrom – A Fort with a View

June 1, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Trencrom offers one of the finest views in Cornwall.  This ancient Iron Age Hill Fort gives you a 360 degree panorama of the Penwith.  It is one of the few places from which you can see both the north and the south coast at the same time. St Ives bay on one side . . […]

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Remembering the Murder of Charlotte Dymond

April 25, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

When Charlotte Dymond’s body was found on the lonely moors near Camelford in April 1844 Cornwall was overcome with shock snd horror. But strangely there was something else too – a kind of unsavoury excitement. This was the stuff of Penny Dreadful fiction, and to be frank the public was loving it. The story had […]

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