Spring 1916 but not a lot to smile about with the war grinding on and on and the casualty lists growing longer and longer. But this after, in St John's Hall, Mrs Tupper will be openig the Patriotic Housekeeping Exhibition........

What a scene the field presented! Immense crowds everywhere; and all pleased, all delighted. A lovely day, a splendid ceremony……..”

There have been mutterings – and at times official complaints – for some time about railway freight charges. And as if that isn’t enough, trains to the north are slow, and the railway companies don’t seem to appreciate the need to catch the market....

Reinhold Angerstein was considered to be an industrial spy, no surprise then that he visited Cornwall in 1754 and made a special point of a visit to St Just.

The shareholders of Crysede Ltd have every reason to be pleased. Their first annual meeting has been held today, and the story is one of enterprise and hard work rewarded; of good design finding favour; of success.

On 19 May 1835 John Tregerthen Short (JTS) wrote in his diary, “The foundation of the Gas Works was laid by Camborne masons, the St Ives masons having demanded one-third more money to carry out the work.”

It is rumoured that Professor Albert Eistein, famous as the exponent of the space-time theory, is coming to live at Land's End.

Numerous pictures on the Internet claim to show the remains of the schooner Jeune Hortense exposed on Long Rock beach. Her skeleton is occasionally exposed by storms, or is it?