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This guide provides invaluable background information on Looe, Fowey and Polperro with their surroundings in the 1900's. This official council guide has maps, photographs and illustrations. It covers the history, traditions, worthies, antiquities and literary associations. This is a useful guide with information and details about the area where your relatives may have lived. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text *Includes maps, photographs and illustrations *Bookmarked by major head... More Info
This guide provides invaluable background information on Newquay , the Vale of Lanherne and Perranzabuloe in the 1900's. This official council guide has maps, photographs and illustrations. It covers the history, traditions, worthies, antiquities and literary associations. * Digitally enhanced images of the original text * Includes maps, photographs and illustrations * Searchable by whole or part name * Bookmarked by major headings * Fully printable... More Info
This CD allows you to find the pedigree of a family and learn about its coat of arms from the Heralds' Visitation of Cornwall. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text *Searchable by whole or part name *Bookmarked by major headings *Fully printable *Contains over 350 pages... More Info
This CD allows you to find the pedigree of a family and learn about its coat of arms from the Heralds' Visitations of Cornwall. *Digitally enhanced images of the original text *Searchable text *Bookmarked by major headings *Fully printable... More Info
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First published in 1895 this book gives details of the great and good of both Devon and Cornwall . Over fifty detailed biographies from Lord Clifford of Chudleigh to John Cave New. A really useful publication for those who have an interest in the history of both these counties. Also included on this CD is “Who's Who in Devon” with almost three hundred pages of biographies.
This publication is a real surprise in that most of it is written in verse. Published in 1827 and with over five hundred pages it covers such diverse subjects as • Brutus, • First Cornish Wrestling, • Witchcraft, • The Roman Period, • Religion of Ancient Cornwall, • The Saxons, •King Arthur and many other subjects. The end of the book has copious notes referring t...More Info
This book published in 1865 is a must for anyone who has an interest in the counties of Cornwall and Devon. It goes into great detail regarding the history and statistics of hundreds of mines, from the name of the manager, landowner, depth of the adit, when first opened and many other pieces of useful information. Although the title page states that there are Maps, Plans and Sections, these wer...More Info
A lovely book aimed at the traveller to Cornwall in the early part of the twentieth century. It full of useful and interesting information and begins with a warning that despite that the Cornish are cheerful and pleasure-loving there is a lack of wayside taverns! Chapters Include; Looe: A Cage for Scolds, Tennyson and Bude, A Female Dick Whittington, The Eddystone, Cotehele and many others
This book contains numerous stories of magic, legends and life in West Cornwall. Some of the subjects covered include The ghosts of Kenegie, Mill stories, A Madron Feast of Fifty Years Ago, Zennor Hearthside Stories, Fairies, The Giant of Carn Galva, Penzance of our Grandfathers, Astrologers of the West, Conjurers and their Spells, Old Methods of Conveyance, Going to Town on Market Day, A Glossary...More Info