Nine things only a woman can understand:


9  Cats' facial expressions
8  The need for the same style of shoes in different colours
7  Why bean sprouts aren't just weeds
6  Fat clothes
5  Taking a car trip without trying to beat your best time
4  The difference between beige, off-white and eggshell
3  Eyelash curlers
2 The inaccuracy of every bathroom scale every made
1  Other women

Hints for Housewives 

Useful and diverting advice taken from Grandmothers' Lore, a book by Simone Sekers; a collection of quaint ideas, rural customs and tips past and present on all aspects of home care.

The Perfect Housewife: 'Chaste of thoughts, stout courage, patient, untired, watchful, diligent, witty, pleasant, constant in friendship, full of good Neighbourhood, wise in discourse, but not frequent therein, sharp and quick of speech but not bitter or talkative, secret in her affairs, comfortably in her Counsels, and generally skillful in the worthy knowledges which do belong to her vocation'  Gervase Markham, 1615 (English poet and writer.  see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gervase_Markham.)

Beneficial teas, tonics and infusions can be made from herbs:

• Blackcurrant tea made from the leaves relieves hoarseness and sore throats, best sipped hot.
• Elderberry wine is good for colds.
• Mallow tea made from the flowers with a little added honey soothes an infected throat or mouth.

Bee stings are said to be cures for rheumatism and arthritis.  I have also heard it said that nettle stings help relieve symptoms.

For a hangover cure  mix the juice of a freshly-squeezed orange, or lemon, with a large spoonful of honey, add two ice cubes and repeat every hour.

Cold weather liniment: mix 1 part oil of cloves and 9 parts camphorated oil and rub into aching muscles, especially after gardening on a damp, cold day.

Rheumatism - carry a potato or a nutmeg in a hip pocket, or wear a cast-off snake skin as a garter.

Chilblains - rub with a raw onion, or methylated spirit, or apply a poultice of raw turnip. Or mix 2 tbsp honey, 2 tbsp glycerine, and the white of 1 egg with enough cornflour to make a paste.  Apply after bathing the feet and allow to dry.

Cold tea is apparently soothing for sunburn.

Lemon juice is a good nail strangthener and cleaner - use an orange stick dipped in lemon juice to clean under the nails after doing vegetables or gardening.

For hiding scratches on furniture try rubbing the scratch with half a freshly cut Brazil nut.

Collect fir cones whenever possible to use as fire lighters, and save orange and lemon peel for the same purpose - all contain quantities of natural oils which will start off a fire well. And presumably will smell rather nice.

To clean decanters.  There are several remedies for removing the deposit from the bottom of decanters and water bottles, all equally effective.  All involve adding the substance to water in the decanter and swirling it around until the deposit is removed: crushed egg-shell; grated raw potato and a little vinegar; lead shot; sand (effective but not always easy to rinse out); mustard seed (which absorbs any stale smell as well), but never use detergent of any sort.

Wicker baskets last longer if scrubbed every so often with soapy water or salt and then dried outside.

Rush matting will last longer in a centrally heated atmosphere if it is sprayed about three times a year with a fine garden spray.

Cracked stone hot water bottles (or ones with no washers) can be re-used with salt instead of water.  Fill the bottle with kitchen salt and heat in a low oven; as salt retains heat well, this tip is particularly good for invalids, and far safer than using an electric blanket.

To revive the bounce in old tennis balls warm it gently in a low oven overnight (especially useful for those with Agas).

A 17C polish. Melt beeswax and infuse crushed sweet cicely seeds in it for several days.  Strain out the seeds and allow wax to harden.  This involves a great deal of rubbing as the polish is sticky but the smell is lovely.

Victorian weather-proofing for boots and shoes: Mix neats'-foot oil (from saddlers) with melted beeswax to a cream, colouring it with drawing ink to match the shoes.  This is a very good way of protecting children's shoes from getting scuffed.

Shoe trees can be made from old socks.  Put the socks into the shoes and fill with sawdust or bran, packing well. Cut off the tops of the socks around 3/4" above the tops of the shoes, and sew or staple them together firmly.  These are very useful for drying out damp shoes, as both sawdust and bran will absorb the moisture; dry out the shoe trees before re-using.

Linen can be bleached by the light of a full moon, as well as by sunlight.

Try making up mustard powder with sherry when serving it with roast beef, or steak and kidney pie.

Dried bay leaves will keep better if stored in an airtight contained with a piece of cotton rag dipped in olive oil.

Old gardeners are supposed to have removed their trousers and sat on the soil to see if it was warm enough to sow.  To avoid embarrassment in town gardens, testing for warmth with your elbow, as you test a baby's bath water, should be as effective.  The reason for this is that the temperature of the air is no indication of the temperature of the soil.

A large vase of marigolds on the kitchen table is supposed to absorb cooking smells and stop the smells permeating the house. (Pic from: http://gardenersblog.jerseyplantsdirect.com/?p=3779)

Milk keeps quite well in hot weather if the bottle is wrapped in wet newspaper, although the newspaper should not be allowed to dry out.  This is a useful tip if you find yourself without a fridge.

To keep bread fresh, store a well scrubbed dry potato in the bin with the bread.

To keep cake fresh, keep an apple in the tin.

Rhubarb leaves and apple or potato peelings are all useful to clean burnt saucepans.  Boil up a handful of one of these in the pan to be treated, then leave the whole panful to stand overnight.  The burnt bits should be very easy to clean the next morning (NB Not recommended for enamel pans).

Southernwood, tansy, feverfew and lavender will all keep flies out of the kitchen and larder.

Bottled fruit can be made particularly good by adding extra flavourings to the bottled syrup. Try:

• Elder-flowers with gooseberries.
• Cinnamon sticks and cloves with damsons.
• Grated orange peel and brown sugar with rhubarb.
• Madeira or sweet sherry with plums.
• Currant leaves with the currants, black, white or red.
• A Vanilla pod with apricots.

If the sun shines through the apple trees upon a Christmas Day: When autumn comes they will a load of fruit display.

Snow pancakes: make your usual batter and, just as you are ready to make the pancake, whisk into the batter a handful of snow (made powdery by a hard frost - not damp snow).  The pancakes will be particularly light and crisp. (We probably don't get enough snow here to try this out, so it'll be interesting to ask someone who lives in snowier climes.)

If you walk over frosted lawns it kills the grass and you will have a train of brown footprints in the spring.

A green Christmas will make a full churchyard by spring.
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* some of these are from Grandmothers' Lore by Simone Sekers (Hoddern & Stoughton).

Lots of ideas for cleaning are at this site: http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-living/channel-cleaning/

Must try this!!
For cleaning carpets use one part ammonia and one part hot water. Spray this liberally on the stain, lay on a clean white towel on top and iron.  Within literally seconds the stain will start to come away - on to the towel.
(From: http://www.onegoodthingbyjillee.com/2011/12/homemade-carpet-stain-removerno.html)

New brains for old . . . you can't do much about the years rolling by, but you needn't be 'elderly' in your mind: all you need is a different outlook.


You Can Be As Young As You Think*

The Six Wisdoms of Youth . . . . . . . . . 

Being open to others

Being open to change

Having enlightened selfishness

Being always 'switched on'

Having fun

Being Creative

1 Be open to others: This Wisdom is about extending your social gene pool - being open to people, so that you have a growing network of friends and associates, rather than a diminishing one.  Finding friends can be hard, but start with friends of friends or by joining new associations.
Using the internet is not for everyone but is clearly a success among most people who use social media for networking.  However you do it, you should have two aims.  Add at least one new friend a month! And introduce fresh blood from different demographics.  For example, ask yourself, how old is my youngest friend? My oldest friend?  The push that age range.  
Finally, start going to busy places, joining in with the crows.  Rediscover the joys of shared emotions and 'feeling part of it'.


2  Being open to change: When life moved slowly and changed little, being inflexible and stubborn didn't matter.  But these days, accelerated change means that being able to navigate through life is the only way to remain connected and interested.
Change, of course, is scary because it means leaving something known behind and taking a risk with something new.  To overcome this fear, start with altering little things and get into the habit of doing this differently.  Change where you sit in the lounge.  Get an electric toothbrush.  Buy a vegetable you've never tried before.  Then go on to the bigger things in life.  One year you might spend Christmas with friends rather than family.  Mix things up.  Make them exciting.  Get life fizzing again.


3  Enlightened selfishness: Giving to others brings goodness to our lives, but occasionally we need to focus on our own learning and growth in order to be more effective at giving.  Part of this personal learning is about giving ourselves permission to explore - and able to make mistakes.
Ensure that errors and setbacks (even serious ones) are learning experiences - so a 'failure' is seen as a growth opportunity rather than a personal flaw.  Work on how you interpret mishaps and focus on how far you have moved forwards.


The Wisdom of Experience
Of course, life teaches us lessons and judgement along the way - about morality, about realism, about the value of families and so forth.  This of course is what we know as maturity, and this Wisdom is a profoundly useful compass.  Fusing experience with the Wisdoms of Youth offers your best chance of a revitalised, meaningful life and will bring you fresh joy and interest along the way.
It is possible to liberate yourself from mindsets that limit your prospects, and rejuvenate the way you view the world and interact with it.  You will discover a fuller, richer life, fill your later years with relevance and find new, interesting, nourishing friends.
Because you really can be as young as you think.  Go for it - and good luck!


Mini Brain Age Test
Someone asks 'How are you?'  How do you respond?  If you have a Young Brain, you will say 'Fine' and change the subject to something more interesting.  Old Brains, on the other hand, will respond with a litany of hospital appointments, ailments and assorted minor disasters.
The French have a phrase, 'moins on en parle, moins on en souffre' that means 'the less you talk about it, the more you suffer from it'. Wisdom indeed.


* book by Tim Drake and Chris Middleton

Diary of a house seller - and buyer - Part III, June 2012

11 June: We've been looking at prospective houses and have now learned the following:

• house viewing is tiring and frustrating.
• every house I've looked at I've loved!
• being able to look at details and photos is a great help, especially being able to access the details quickly on the internet.
• estate agents are not as helpful as they could be.

I thought it was possible to give requirements to an estate agent, they'd trawl through the properties on their books and make suggestions and then we could arrange viewings.  But it's not so!


This past week it's been more of a case of finding houses for ourselves on the internet and then asking agents for more information and to view.  It's not been easy to get hold of details, with viewing often taking several days to arrange. (15 June, have just had a response to our email to agent sent eight days ago, requesting a viewing.)


Many agents are very professional.  But there are others who've often arrived late for viewings, they sometimes don't know much about the property and don't even have a copy of the details to give us.  Then they've rushed us around the houses - one time with less than 20 mins being allocated - before they're on to the next client.


Another pitfall has been photography.  It's misleading where the photos on the details are distorted and make the room/garden look far bigger or smaller than they are.  For instance, one set of details made the garden look very big - which we want - and when we got there it wasn't: a waste of everyone's time.  


Another showed a lovely house which was at the top of our price range and from the details looked in good condition.  When we subsequently viewed the house there were several half-finished projects (none mentioned in the details), the cost of which would have taken us way out of our price bracket: so again no good. 

We've been taken around with other prospective purchasers, which we haven't minded, except that the agents don't seem to want the two to meet: rather like  'musical chairs'.  


One property we had to wait over 48 hours to view.  Then, when we got there, the tenants were there (6 of them!), plus the vendor, the agent and two other viewers.  As you can imagine, we couldn't wait to leave that house.


Eventually, we've narrowed it down to seven properties, all of which have their good and bad points.  Do we go for:

• detached or semi?
• too small or too big?
• views
• near to shops and bus route
• secluded garden
• big garden or small garden?
• garage/workshop
• older or newer
• sun at back or front?

Life is so much easier when there's less choice ... then we'd buy any house which was for sale and then alter it to suit us.

... Well, at last we've put in an offer for our chosen house, which inside is very similar to our present home. Fingers crossed ....

12 June am: No news regarding house, so rang agent who relayed the information that Mr house-vendor had accepted the offer but that Mrs house-vendor would not accept, she wanted up to £25,000 more.  A difficult situation. 
pm: Good news this afternoon as our offer has been accepted.  Our next steps are:

• Send two forms of our id to the agent, at least one of which must give our address, together with solicitor's details.
• Instruct our solicitor
• Instruct a surveyor
• Keep sorting and packing. 

Talking of sorting and packing, I've just thrown away at least 20 glass coffee jars used as storage containers.  It's amazing what we've accumulated over the past five years or so living here.


15 June: The surveyor has been briefed and will phone us after he's carried out the survey early next week.   

We had a morning off today and visited the Devon Guild of Craftsmen, in Bovey Tracey: http://www.crafts.org.uk/ to see 'Engaging the Senses'.  The Devon Guild is always good for inspiration.  Most of my craft stuff has now been packed so it's more for ideas.  
I'm missing it already!  


(Which leads to the question: is sorting out possessions a creative activity?  I certainly feel better once things are tidy and organised.  And amass ideas along the way.  Must remember to make a note of them for when there's the opportunity to start making again.)

Our purchaser has made an appointment come and measure up to decide where furniture is to go.   Am looking forward to doing that in our new property.  


It'll be great when I can publicise on here which is our new abode ....    The living room is as large as the one we have here - 25' x 15' with the kitchen being little larger but with two corners missing - one for a sort of study with French doors to the garden and the other corner is where the cloakroom and stairs are situated.  The kitchen's fabulous and the whole house is well decorated and up-to-date with only a few things to do, including some new windows and attention to part of the roof. 



If, after this remedial work, there's enough money left over, we'd like to attach a conservatory.  
Facing north, it won't get too hot in the summer.

A beautiful conservatory -









One fun job we'll soon be tackling is the garden.  It's a blank canvas of decking, flat grass and raised beds, with a shed at the far end. It isn't a jungle so we won't be intrepidly hacking back overgrown bushes and weeds.  


19 June: Bad news, survey not looking good, so have pulled out and we're now back to square one ....


21 June (first day of summer, so torrential rain): Very glad we viewed lots of houses as returned to our file of 'favourites', found that two have now been sold, so we need to act quickly.  


We've made an offer on another, very different, house - a 1930's semi.  


It's funny how, when house-hunting, we started out with a list of 'vital' features. Then gradually, the more we search, the list has changed.  So, instead of going for a dormer bungalow, we've now put an offer on a three storey house ...  
After some bargaining, the offer's been accepted.  Our solicitor and selling agent have been informed and surveyor booked, so now we can go away for the weekend with a clear in-tray.

This house has plenty of room, the garden is long and interesting and faces south.  There are three and a half bedrooms, two bathrooms and plenty of parking.  It's on a main road so convenient for bus, pub and park but not alas near to a corner shop selling milk and papers.  

The kitchen is 'L' shaped, with part of the dining area having 'glass' roof, rather like a conservatory.  

Whether this'll be chilly in winter, we're not sure but if so we'll put on proper roof and attach a conservatory to the back.  The cats'll be pleased about this as, until we make arrangements for them they'll need to sleep in the shed or garage at night.

26 June: Large letter in the post regarding our sale, with various forms attached for us to fill out, regarding (a) what we're leaving behind (b) legal stuff (such as, who owns which boundaries, whether we've had problem with neighbours, any guarantees re windows, electrical work etc).  I presume it's easier for us to fill these out as it saves a great deal of our solicitor's time (therefore money).

We had a great weekend on the Isle of Wight (or Isle of Weight, as the food was excellent!).  The weather was kind, although rather blowy on Saturday.  That day I had a taster of line dancing (great fun) and ceroc dancing (ditto). 

This was followed by an interesting walk near Bembridge, looking at the Bembridge Limestone and Bembridge Marl, with a seam of Chalk running through the middle.  I picked up a lump of (presumably Bembridge) Clay off the beach and hope to make something with it to remember the weekend.  (see photo below: Bembridge Marl with line of grey clay at the bottom, spilling onto the beach)

Having studied the area for his thesis, the tutor was very knowledgeable, and patiently explained the geology of this part of the Isle of Weight, with particular emphasis on ways to combat coastal erosion  (See: http://www.coastalwight.gov.uk/ and http://www.dinosaurisle.com/geological_history.aspx).

4.55pm had a call from the surveyor to say he'd carried out the survey this morning and found various small problems which he'd be listing in his formal report.  They were to do with general upkeep of the property - slates off roof, guttering not adequate/secure, damp in kitchen floor, wiring needs attention.  He is going to investigate more to see how much this remedial work is likely to cost.  Perhaps it's what we should expect when the house has had tenants and the landlord hasn't been able to have access to carry out such work.  But we need to factor in the cost of this work when working out the cost.

The Top 100 Cornish People, Part II

... from a 2002 survey, found in the Western Morning News

21 William Bligh

Much-maligned (largely due to his big screen portrayal) sea captain from St Tudy, famous for his role in the Mutiny on the bounty incident, after which he undertook a superb act of seamanship by navigating an open boat thousands of miles to Timor in the Dutch East Indes.

22  Richard Lander

Truro explorer who charted the River Niger.  See: http://www.nmmc.co.uk/index.php?/whatson/events_
archive/the_adventures_of_richard_lander/





23  Robert Morton Nance
Cultural crusader who created the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies in 1920 in order to 'gather up the fragments' of Cornish culture so that they would not be lost to future generations. With Henry Jenner was the first Grand Bard of the Gorsedd.  See: http://www.stivestrust.co.uk/html/robert_morton_nance.html

24  Jethro
Comedian of stage and screen whose act includes The Camborne Train.  See: http://www.jethro.co.uk/about.htm




25  William Bickford
19th century leather trader from Tuckingmill who invented the miner's slow-burning safety fuse using flax yarn and gunpowder, a device that prevented many deaths and injuries both in Cornish mines and around the world.  See
http://www.themagicofcornwall.com/pages/history/bickford.htm



26  Trevelyan Richards
Coxswain of the Penlee Lifeboat Solomon Browne, who lost his life on 19 December 1981.




27  Henry Martyn
Melancholy Truro missionary andcoriental scholar who first translated the Bible into Sanskrit, Hindustani and other Eastern languages. See http://www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630337/

28  Ed Prynn
Mystic, arch-druid, quarryman born at St Merryn in 1936, who built a granite henge at his home.  See: http://www.edprynnsstonehenge.com/

29  Ben Luxon
Redruth singer who became one of the world's greatest opera stars.
See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbL5MiR3t1g and http://www.cpbn.org/article/former-opera-singer-
benjamin-luxon-still-entertaining-audiences

30  Thomas Merritt
Music teacher, organist and choirmaster born at Illogan in 1863, whos Christmas Carols are still sung all over the world.  Also wrote anthems, oratorios, cantatas and hymns.   See: http://www.cambornechurch.org.uk/outlook/2008-
christmas/thomas-merritt-cornish-composer/ and http://www.saint-illogan.org.uk/history/thomasmerritt.htm




31  Rick Rescoria
Hayle-born hero who gave his life in the Twin Towers attack on 11 September 2001, after leading thousands of people to safety while singing Cornish and American songs.  See: http://rickrescorla.com/



32  St Petroc
A patron saint of Cornwall, along with Pirvan and Michael.  The son of a Welsh king, he is said to have arrived in North Cornwall around the Camel Estuary, where he stayed for 30 years performing miracles.  See: http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/spirituallife/saintoftheweek/
2012/06/04/the-son-of-a-welsh-king-who-became-a-hermit-by-a-stream/

33  Ann Trevenen Jenkin
First woman Grand Bard of the Gorsedd, an immensely influential figure in modern Cornish cultural and political life and particularly noted for her work to increase links with the six million-strong diaspora of Cornish descent worldwide.  See: http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk
/english/gallery/grandbards/ebryall.htm


34  Bert Biscoe
Politician, councillor, chairman of the Cornish Constitutional Convention, poet, at the forefront of the campaign to establish a Cornish Assembly (Senedh Kernow). See: http://www.bertbiscoe.co.uk/



35  John Angarrack
Bodmin political activist and historian.
See: http://anhelghyer.wordpress.com/
2011/11/21/john-angarrack-on-duchy-in-wmn/


36  Dolly Pentreath
Mousehole fish jowster reputed to have been the last person to speak Cornish as a first language, who died in 1771.  See: http://www.stevecolgan.com/Cornish%20Folklore%20Site/
witch_stories.htm and http://www.flickr.com/photos/blech/248880740/


37  Jack Clemo
Deaf and blind poet and author from Goonamaris who eloquently captured the clay country around his home in works like Confessions of a Rebel, Wilding Graft and The invading Gospel. See: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/
obituary-jack-clemo-1417200.html




38  Robert Stephen Hawker
Morwenstow vicar and author who wrote The Song of the Western Men (Trelawny) and created the Harvest Festival service.
see: http://www.robertstephenhawker.co.uk/?p=61




39  Sir Richard Grenville
Bude military leader who commanded HMS Revenge, Drake's flagship, during numerous battles with Spain. See: http://www.sciencephoto.com/media/151493/view


40  Lilla Miller 
(Mrs Rosewarne)
Known as the 'Queen of Camborne', comedian and entertainer whose recordings include A Bit of a Chat. See: http://www.quintessencefilms.co.uk/
television/documentary/queen-of-camborne.html

The Top 100 Cornish People, Part 1

... from a 2002 survey, found in the Western Morning News:

1   Richard Trevithick
A ''Cornish Giant' both intellectually and physically, pioneered the use of high pressure steam, revolutionising mining practices, invented the first road locomotive - fore-runner of the modern motor car; fought with Simon Bolivar's army of liberation; drained the silver mines of the Peruvian Andes, designed everything from pumps to iron ships, floating docks to ovens, gun carriages to portable room heaters, water-jet propelled ships to mechanical refrigerators.  Denied proper recognition in life and died in poverty in 1833.  See: http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/on-line/energyhall/page92.asp

2   Humphry Davy
Penzance chemist and poet who invented the miners' safety lamp and was the first to use nitrous oxide as an anaesthetic.  He claimed his greatest 'discovery' to have been Michael Faraday. See: ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/davy_humphrey.shtml

3  Michael Joseph An Gof
St Keverne blacksmith who became leadeer of the Cornish rebellion of 1497 against the raising of taxes for a war in Scotland.  Before his execution, he said he would have 'a name perpetual and a fame permanent and immortal'.  See: http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/people/michael_joseph.htm


4  A L Rowse
Tregonissey historian, scholar, poet and author whose more than 100 works include A Cornish Childhood.  The Elizabethian Renaissance, Tudor Cornwall and Shakespeare's Self-Portrait.
Obit see: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-a-l-rowse-1234367.html, Picture from: http://fag.looksystems.net/Collection/1998.1


5 David Penhaligon
Much-loved ambassador for Cornwall and Liberal MP for Truro from 1974 until his tragic death in 1986.  See: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/desert-island-discs/castaway/53732334



6 Henry Trengrouse

Helston furniture maker who, after witnessing the loss of the Anson off Loe Bar, invented the rocket apparatus, Bosun's Chair and the Breeches Buoy, saving countless lives.


See: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~helstonhistory/henrytrengrousepage.htm

7 Charles Causley
Launceston poet, teacher and seaman.  Companion of Literature at the Royal Society of Literature, awarded the CBE, Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and many other awards, see: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=122


8  John Passmore Edwards
Blackwater publisher and philanthropist who built more than 60 free libraries, hospitals, schools and care homes.  See: http://www.passmoreedwards.org.uk/





9  Goldsworthy Gurney
Padstow-born doctor who built Bude Castle on sand, invented incandescent light, lit the Houses of Parliament, and developed the first practical steam carriage, which he drove from Bath to London and back at 15mph in 1829.  See: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/249695/Sir-Goldsworthy-Gurney


10  Sir John Opie

Known as the 'Cornish Wonder', portrait painter from St Agnes who became a star of the Royal Academy in the 1780s after being discovered working as a carpenter and sponsored by Truro doctor and satirist John Solcot.  Believed to have painted around 750 major works in his lifetime.  see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/john-opie


11 Brenda Wootton

Folk singer with an incredible vocal range who toured the world with her ballads and Cornish songs, like Pasties and Cream.
See: http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/people/brenda_wooton.htm



12  Sir Arthur Quiller Couch

Fowey novelist and poet, known simply as 'Q' was Professor of English at Cambridge University and wrote such classics as the Splendid Spur, and the The Astonishing History of Troy Town. See: http://www.online-literature.com/quiller-couch/


13  John Couch Adams

Farmer from Laneast who became president of the Royal Astonomical Society and proved the position of Neptune using mathematical calculations. See: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Adams.html

14  Bishop Jonathan Trelawny
Born Pelynt and became Bishop of Bristol, Exeter and Winchester. One of seven bishops committed to the Tower of London in 1688 for contempt of the House of Commons and inspired Robert Stephen Hawker to write The Song of the the Western Men.  See: http://www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/people/john_trelawny.htm

15  Thomas Flamank
Lawyer from Bodmin who, with Michael Joseph An Gof, led the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and was hanged at Tyburn.

16  Henry Jenner

Born in 1848 at St Columb Major, regarded as the father of modern Cornish language revival.  The first Cornish Grand Bard (with Robert Norton Nance), his Handbook of the Cornish Language was published in 1904, paving the way for the revival.  See: http://www.gorsethkernow.org.uk/english/gallery/grandbards/egwasmyg.htm


17 Billy Bray
Miner and evangelist preacher who called himself 'The King's Son', joined the Bible Christians, built three chapels - Bethel, Three Eyes and Great Deliverance - and was known to preach to 3,000- strong congregations at open-air revivalist meetings.  See: http://www.billybray.com/

18 St Piran
Patron Saint of tinners, who is said to have sailed from Ireland to the shores of Cornwall on a millstone, landing at Perranzabuloe, where he founded an oratory.  The white cross on the black background of the St Piran's flat - the indisputable symbol of Cornwall - denotes the molten metal flowing from black ore.  See: http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/bios/pirandm.html

20 King Arthur
Legendary warrior born at Tintagel who defeated the Saxons in 12 battles.  See: http://www.king-arthur.co.uk/

 next 20 to follow soon....
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Isaac Foot
singer Josh
writer of Rebecca
bishop benson
seth lakeman