The Henry Harvey (1857) was bound from Runcorn to Lelant with a cargo of coal when it missed stays trying to enter Penzance in a NE gale and heavy seas on 25 March 1898. The anchor was dropped but the cable parted, and the ship drifted onto Woollan's…
Few people now can recall the annual visit of Henry Jones & Sons Fair to Halsetown where they built up in a crowded meadow among the cabbages and rows of peas, some 700 feet above St Ives and in the shadow of Rosewall (locally called Buttermilk)…
Few people now can recall the annual visit of Henry Jones & Sons Fair to Halsetown where they built up in a crowded meadow among the cabbages and rows of peas, some 700 feet above St Ives and in the shadow of Rosewall (locally called Buttermilk)…
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. Dating from ca. AD 1300, the map is drawn in a…
The Hereford Mappa Mundi is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the then known world. It is a religious rather than literal depiction, featuring heaven, hell and the path to salvation. Dating from ca. AD 1300. It is displayed at…