This was first posted on Christmas Eve, 2020. What was Christmas like around a hundred years ago? Let’s look at the Cornishman newspaper in 1920 for a few clues. Overall, it was generally quiet. At Penzance it was reported as ‘celebrated somewhat quietly’ while over at Helston it also ‘passed off very quietly’. We might … Continue reading Christmas in west Cornwall in 1920
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Good news and bad
The good news is that the perfect Christmas gift for any proud Cornish man or woman is still available. There is still time to order The Real World of Poldark or The Surnames of Cornwall before Christmas - and at the laughably low price of £9.99 plus postage. The bad news is that, having pegged … Continue reading Good news and bad
Cornish carols
I’m straying into an area where I admit I know little. But Christmas is the season for carols and Christmas carols are a distinctive element of traditional Cornish culture. The carols composed and sung in the Camborne-Redruth district were carried across the world by emigrants and turned up in places as far apart as California … Continue reading Cornish carols
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