5April10 - The village of Tredavoe

There was also the old story of the Dava Bay which sank laden with heavy cake !!

Sounds interesting, welb! Know anything else about the vessel?

@Tpp...Thats an old one going back to my childhood !! ..... Dava Bay' refered to the rather muddy pond that once
existed in the village,I remember as a youngster free running poultry at Tredavoe after sunday school we would have a walk around there and down to St Golders quarry and up the coombe and perhaps scrump
some apples at Trereife the only local orchard that had Pippins as I remember, we would continue on to the St Just road and home via Castle Hornick and Love Lane of course that was many moons ago.....

Thanks a lot for that amusing anecdote, welb! I love hearing about life back along down in this beautiful part of Cornwall. As a matter of fact, I thought it must be something worth relating with the 'vessel' being sunk by heavy or 'hevva' (Cornish for 'shoal' cake and a celebration for a glut of fish caught I think!) As a matter of fact, I shall next be putting up a few pictures of Tredavoe's green and well which I suppose is where the pond used to be. I'm so pleased that someone's looking at the pics in this folder.