One day while on the beach at Porth Chapel, my then nine year old son, looking eastwards exclaimed, 'I just saw a man fall down the cliff!' and this was where it happened though we didn't believe our young son until a helicopter arrived from Culdrose and the news was confirmed and we learnt that...
The only Cornish beam engine anywhere in the world that is still in steam at a tin and copper mine is housed in this small building and restored after 60 years by the 'Greasy Gang' (volunteers of the Trevithick Society). Not so cheerful is the fact that 31 miners died owing to negligence in 1919...
A view of Paul Village Church from across the stream that runs from under the mining ballast and waste first piled on a marsh which I read Trungle Park Mousehole's football pitch was created over! Paul is one of those archetypal Cornish Churchtowns, tranquil and unspoilt. Even the additional...
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