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Posted: 24-05-2002 20:56 Post subject:

Apparently you uaed to be able to get radium ointment for rubbing on your face to give you a healthy glow !

Posted: 25-05-2002 11:42 Post subject:

Word of advice, Never, ever, ever tell someone from 'Druth that it is like Camborne or vice versa. You'll find something strange and not very fortean happening to you in certain pubs.

Same applies to Falmouth and 'Rynn.

Of course it could become Fortean if you come back to haunt them.

Posted: 25-05-2002 13:16 Post subject:

yes cornwall has a "twin town" thing.. camborne and Druth...penryn and Falmouth, Penzance and Newlyn... historical i think , first the industry then the fishing....or is that the other way round?

Posted: 25-05-2002 13:36 Post subject:

First Charters:
Penryn 1236
Falmouth 1661

So Penryn was older, when Falmouth was founded, than Falmouth is now. Strange twins!

Posted: 25-05-2002 16:20 Post subject:

and St.Just and Pendeen and so on down to the guys who fished out of Sennen cove v the boys who fished out of boat cove, and come to that we live on the hill above the town so we're uppers not downers! Very Happy

Will try to find some more info around my area for you

Posted: 25-05-2002 18:38 Post subject:

On another thread someone queried why Joseph of Arimathea would ever have wanted to visit Britain. I suggested that, as he was a rich man, he may have been engaged in the tin trade.

Just dug up this extract:

from "The Cornish Mining Industry", J.A.Buckley. Tor Mark Press, Penryn (no, I'm not JAB!)

Comish mining is one of the most ancient of industries and it is among the most fascinating. Few industries claimed the attention of so many ancient writers. Leaving aside the questionable association with the Phoenicians and Herodotus's Cassiterides, the Comish tin trade can still claim great antiquity. Throughout its long period of successful operation it has been marked by tremendous achievement, outstanding courage, ingenious innovation and dogged perseverance. It is no wonder that the story generates such abiding interest and even excitement among people from so many different backgrounds.

Artifacts found on tin sites, and identified by archaeologists, indicate that the tin industry was established by the Early Bronze Age (2100-1500 BC), and was widespread by the Middle Bronze Age (1500-800 BC). Finds in all the main tin-producing localities between Dartmoor and Land's End show that from as early as 1500 BC the extraction of tin has probably continued without serious interruption until the present day.

Historical references support this. They show a well established and fairly sophisticated tin trade between Cornwalll and the Mediterranean by the 4th century BC. There is little evidence that the great events of history - such as the invasion by the Romans and their subsequent withdrawal 400 years later - did any more than temporarily disturb that international trade.

Timaeus of Sicily and Pytheas of Massalia (Marseilles), of the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, gave accounts of Cornwall's tin trade. Neither author's work has survived but from fragments quoted by other authors it is clear that Pytheas had visited and probably circumnavigated Britain some time between 325-250 BC. In the 1st century BC, Liodorus Siculus quoted Pytheas' report and told much about the nature and importance of Cornwall's tin trade. He said that the Cornish were friendly and civilised, due to contact with foreign merchants. They extracted the tin from its host rock 'in an ingenious manner'. He refers to their skill in dressing and smelting the concentrate, and then describes how they conveyed the metallic tin to an off-shore island, called Ictis. The island, generally presumed to be St Michael's Mount, could only be approached at ebb tide. The tin was then carried across to Gaul and then by horseback to the mouth of the Rhone, where modern-day Marseilles is located. We are left in no doubt as to the importance of the trade.

From the Early Bronze Age to the end of the Mediaeval period most tin in Cornwall came from streaming alluvial deposits. Over thousands of years cassiterite was weathered from the outcrops of lodes, and washed by flood into the nearest valley.

Posted: 15-12-2002 08:00 Post subject:

bore dda
as a cymric man living in exile in the land of the sias let me tell you. dont forget you only need 2 other countrys to aknowlege your indi from london eg ask eire and scotland or iom weve be tryng for years so when u get indi aknowlege us as well then we can form the feduration of united celtic kingdoms

and outsiders are usualy ret. majors/generals etc allways seem to be incharge of "the "local marina (basiclly you can work in the marina but to jion you need refs form at least 3 tpo brass etc its the same in cymru

re:- the taymar as a border,
offas dyke was built by the cymric to keep the sias out and look whats happened theyve gone and built 2 bridges and we have to pay to come back home:D acient cymru joke

this ends the political boardcast on behalf of the fed of united celtic lingdoms now back to the thread

Posted: 15-12-2002 10:10 Post subject: Sidecar John

I thought I recognised ye.. Didn't you used to put out a paranormal fanzine a few years ago?

Posted: 15-12-2002 20:57 Post subject: Re: Sidecar John

Posted: 15-12-2002 20:59 Post subject:

the pic to the left was on cover of "New Ager New Danger" isue

Posted: 15-12-2002 22:33 Post subject:

Talking about 'The Cornishman' newspaper, a mate of mine brought me last weeks issue up from Penzance when he came to visit, none of my friends up here could understand why I was so terribly amused to read it.

They all appreciated that one of the top stories was basically about a man sitting at a bus stop on a chair though Smile

Ahhhh.. I miss Cornwall so much, soon be home for Christmas though.

(my mate also brought me up some clotted cream and I made saffron cake for everyone to try)

Gjinn
xx

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Posted: 11-08-2004 12:29 Post subject:

It’s true. I’ve been visiting Cornwall for many a year and you really don’t get much information on haunted places to visit. The few that I know are haunted is Jamaica Inn (and I think St Michaels mount). It’s a nice, solid, old pub and worth a visit… even if the locals are a bit “Slaughtered Lamb”. But they really aren’t fourth coming with any info on the ghosts.

Shame they are chancing their initiative about things spooky just when I’m going to miss going down there for the first time in years. :/

MX

Posted: 27-11-2004 04:31 Post subject: