| Porthtowan Beach – North Cornwall This was a very quiet place and not many people were around. The cafés were doing reasonable business. |
| St. Agnes Museum – model of the harbour in its heyday | Household item costs in 1897 |
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| St. Agnes north Cornwall – we parked in the town car park and walked down to the beach/harbour. What a walk down, down, down we went and arrived about 30 minutes later. On the way we passed this house. Stippy Stappy is a row of nine Grade II Listed 18th century cottages. |
| St Agnes harbour – in the past copper was exported from here and coal imported from South Wales |
| The Godolphin Estate is the former seat of the Dukes of Leeds and the Earls of Godolphin. It contains a Grade 1 listed Tudor/Stuart mansion, complete with early formal gardens and Elizabethan stables. The present house is remnant of a larger mansion. The Godolphin Estate came into the ownership of the National Trust in 2007. The National Trust rent it out to the public. It can accommodate 12 people at any one time. |
| Sue at the front |
View towards the back
Trip to Falmouth
| A large number of ships were moored in the estuary during the late-2000s financial crisis, as falling global trade meant a smaller demand for trade ships. Falmouth Harbour authority charges companies for usage of the river, until the ships are either reactivated, scrapped or sold. Today it is mainly leisure craft that are moored in the river. |
St. Mawes Ferry
| For those of you who sailed on the Mohnesee here are two Bosun dingys – look for the Bosun’s whistle on the sail. |
| If you have been reading the blog over the years you will know that we like to be away on the Heritage Open Days weekend. This year was no exception – the only problem was that there was not much on offer. The main event for us was a visit to Tumblydown Farm (honest it is really called this) to see some railway layouts (note to Glyn) and Meccano models. |
| Part of the railway layout | Budding railway engineer? |
| I’m in charge! |
| The Titanic in Meccano – it must be 2 metres in length. No wonder it sank with all those holes in it. |
| WWII Meccano hence the drab green. I hadn’t realised that Meccano had different colours for different eras. My Meccano was (sorry IS because I still have it) red and green i.e. 1950s era. |
| One of the highlights of the visit was a trip on an electric mine train on a half mile track (on the surface). |
| The mine train | £6000 of batteries |
| Portreath, 5 miles north west of Redruth, has a quaint harbour and lovely beach. The access was also on the flat rather than down steep hills. |
| It was a very nice morning, but the lifeguard was looking very chilly. | Stuart on the beach |
| On our return we visited Cornwall Gold – this is mainly a jewellery sales area, but they have retained much of the Tolgus Tin mining machinery some of which still works. I was more interested in the machinery, hence photos of machinery and none of jewellery (I don’t think they would have allowed photography in shop). |
| Seen on the wall of a Cornwall Gold cafeteria |
| This was our regular afternoon tea – cholesterol What’s that? |
Oldie Photos - 1980
| Photos on the Mohnesee Photo 1 Anne rowing our inflatable Photo 2 Stuart and Sue |
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