Categories
Penwith St Ives West Cornwall (and local history)

Cloudscapes

It was a blustery day on Wednesday, but I have taken the opportunity to have a short walk when I have to visit the library in Hayle. Sometimes along the Copperhouse Pool and the garden, or along the quayside to the beach. This week I chose the beach as it was low tide. (Please click […]

Cloudscapes
Categories
Classics Literature Penwith St Ives West Cornwall (and local history)

Campaign to protect views immortalised in Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’

Within the Salon community we count many devotees of the writing of Virginia Woolf and every year we offer a number of studies focusing on her work, some online and others based in some of the places she loved. This autumn we will run the seventh in our series of Virginia Woolf travel studies in […]

Campaign to protect views immortalised in Virginia Woolf’s ‘To the Lighthouse’
Categories
politics West Cornwall (and local history)

Cornwall’s last food riot: the Redruth butter riot of 1920

Today is the 106th anniversary of the Redruth butter riot of 1920. Let’s disinter it from the graveyard of history. During the first World War, the price of various foodstuffs was controlled by the Government. By 1920, it had been decided to end this control, with milk and butter prices being left to the open […]

Cornwall’s last food riot: the Redruth butter riot of 1920
Categories
Art and Photographic History Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

Cornish Sea Holly

https://cornwallincolours.blog/2025/10/23/autumn-brown/#like-32316

Categories
Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

Cornish Autumnal Colour

https://cornwallincolours.blog/2025/10/02/a-cornish-autumn-10/#like-32113

Categories
Art and Photographic History Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

Cornish light in Autumn

https://cornwallincolours.blog/2025/09/22/autumn-equinox/#like-32038

Categories
Art and Photographic History Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

Rose Hips – Cornwall in Colours

https://cornwallincolours.blog/2025/08/25/rose-hips/#like-31650

Categories
Art and Photographic History Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

Dressed for a Dip: paintings of beach dress 1900-1920 – The Eclectic Light Company

https://eclecticlight.co/2025/07/27/dressed-for-a-dip-paintings-of-beach-dress-1900-1920/#like-87218

Categories
Penwith West Cornwall (and local history)

A less well-known Cornish Garden

https://cornwallincolours.blog/2025/07/21/bonython-estate-gardens-in-july/#like-31265

Categories
Penwith Poetry West Cornwall (and local history)

A strange day at the Penzance Lit Fest

 

Retreat everywhere! Practical June

Will look at blackouts.

Learn from the opportunity-

You will make material poems

Regularly and utterly fascinating.

 

Under deep metal with Philip

Discover magical humans

Trace the dazzling and dark consequences

In various homeland hotspots as did

Parson, Goethe, Blake and Marie Curie

 

Cornish ghost landscapes erupt at Falmouth-

Talk about inspiration!

Convince Cornish writers to paint!

Short ghosts here costing £6

 

Penzance legends at the Pixel

Linda has books and local visitors and time lords,

Including Sir Humphry Davy

Pirates and St Anthony.

 

Unlock the power of the unconscious

With Jenny.

Write a regular modern mass app

Experience and chance a random walk non-fiction encounter.