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Sport on a Slow News Day in Penzance   (12 September 1932)

It's Pirates versus Wanderers in the big match on Moday night and an opportunity to see the magic Jennings strut his stuff, AND LOSE and the pirates cut their opponents down to size.

Skimbleshanks at St Erth?   (11 September 1933)

“Bubbles" is missing! Of unimpeachable character, utterly blameless, attentive to his duties. The perfect employee. Kidnapping suspected.  

The Charmed Life of Walter Tremenheere   (10 September 1761)

Yellow jack, musket balls, cannon balls, flying splinters, power explosions and mutiny - Walter Tremenheere faced them all and emerged unscathed from an active service career in the Marine Corps during the Napoleonic Wars.  

King's Bugler Hits Wrong Note in Penzance   (9 September 1940)

My pal Charlie’s in a spot of bother. He's landed up in court due to what the Chief Constable’s seen fit to refer to as his “unfortunate attitude”.  

Rover Disturbance at St Ives   (8 September 1838)

8th September 1838: Rover burnt in effigy in St Ives, Penrose to blame.

Rightful Heir Makes Landfall at Sennen?   (7 September 1497)

Whitesands Bay, 7th September 1497. It's just 9 weeks since the execution of An Gof and here's a Plantagenet claimant hoping to rouse the Cornish in pursuit of the throne of England.

Thomas Victor born in Mousehole   (6 September 1894)

Thomas Victor was a well thought of Cornish artist who never travelled beyong Truro despite being offered a scolarship to the Slade.

Paul,   Arts
The Loss of the William Cory   (5 September 1910)

In his history of Levant Mine, Cyril Noall provides a brief outline of the wreck of the William Cory

on 5th September 1910. The wreck proved to be a bit of a windfall for the mine but how did the William Cory come to run aground on a calm day with excellent visibility?

 

Perfect Jelly at Dynamite Towans   (4 September 1894)

Elisha Trewartha is settling into the working day. He’s a “middle-aged man… the foreman” at Upton Towans Dynamite Works, Gwithian.

 

Registration of the While an Cruen Ton Gwynn tinworks at Calartha, St Just.   (3 September 1502)

Between 1498 and 1508 the itinerant Stannary Court at Lelant registered at least 10 St Just tinbounds. While an Cruen ton Gwynn was registered on 3rd September 1502.



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Penwith Local History Group

c/o Morrab Library
Morrab Gardens
Penzance, Cornwall
TR18 4DA






Penwith Local History Group, Penzance, Cornwall
Penwith Local History Group
Penzance, Cornwall



The Morrab Library showing the new extension
The Morrab Library showing the new extension.
Photo Glyn Richards



<br>Higher Bal, Levant Mine. Engine house for dual purpose pumping and winding engine. Stonecrop in foreground., Penwith Local History Group
This month's featured photograph:

Higher Bal, Levant Mine. Engine house for dual purpose pumping and winding engine. Stonecrop in foreground.

Photography Ted Mole

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<br>Coastline near Zennor., Penwith Local History Group<br>Chysauster looking east to Mulfra Hill., Penwith Local History Group<br>St Michael's Mount from the Coast Path by Penzance station., Penwith Local History Group<br>Marazion from St Michael's Mount., Penwith Local History Group<br>Greenburrow Engine House, Ding Dong Mine., Penwith Local History Group<br>Marazion from St Michael's Mount, Trencrom on skyline., Penwith Local History Group<br>Three of the Nine Maidens, Zennor Hill in background., Penwith Local History Group<br>Levant Mine from the south showing the leat in the foreground, left to right the calciner, stamps and compressor stacks and the whim and pumping engine houses in the centre with the Skip Shaft headframe., Penwith Local History Group<br>Causeway to St Michael's Mount on the ebb tide., Penwith Local History Group<br>Men-an-Tol., Penwith Local History Group<br>The Nine Maidens Stone Circle., Penwith Local History Group