November 2020
During 2020, some of the group have been meeting outdoors – in social-distanced groups of six - when regulations and weather have allowed. We have also been able to produce our regular Penwith Papers, despite research facilities being only sporadically open.
We are always happy to do our best with enquiries, and are pleased to have been able to help several people this year – although we can’t always come up with an answer. It isn’t all one way - sometimes we receive fascinating and useful information. Recently, Tony Thatcher has been in touch with an update about one of the men on the slave ship that arrived in St Ives on December 9th 1825 and this has enabled us to update the relevant ‘On This Day. Many thanks, Tony
And of course our books make ideal Christmas gifts: our treasurer is standing by with envelopes and stamps at the ready.
Our final item for 2020 is a topical one – a Penwith Paper looking at how the ‘Spanish Flu’ epidemic of 1918-1919 was reported locally at the time, and its influence on advertising and daily life.
Bring on 2021!
Here we are – masked perhaps, but not muzzled!
PLHG publications can be purchased online here or perused in the Morrab Library.
Penwith Local History Group
Edited by
Sally Corbet
price £10
plus p&p
Photo Glyn Richards