March 2021
History is being made before our very eyes: will these posters and signs one day be treasured archive material?
The group is still unable to meet face to face, but keeps in touch and circulates queries submitted to the website.
In the meantime, we have added some new resources to the site –blogs that we have discovered and particularly enjoyed. Please click on the ‘Resources’ button to find a fascinating alphabetical Morrab Miscellany in which local author Julia Grigg combines history and horticulture, an excellent blog with strong local historical content from D J Wilson, and ‘hidden places and untold stories’ from Penwith and elsewhere in Cornwall, - courtesy of ‘Cornish Bird.’
We are pleased to see that Geevor Mine hopes to re-open on May 17th – the earliest that museums may be permitted to open, alongside cinemas and other delights. In the meantime, we recommend their on-line exhibition ‘The Cornish Diaspora and the Resilient Women of St Just and Pendeen’ - the perfect complement to a chapter on a St Hilary mining family our book ‘Women of West Cornwall’; which you can order by clicking on ‘publications.’
And staying with St Hilary…. we also have a new Penwith Paper for you from member Carrie Baker, titled St Hilary Church, Good Friday 1853
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