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| By J.T. Blight
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| ISBN: 0906720206
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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John Thomas Blight, FSA, was born in Penzance in 1835. He showed an extraordinary early talent in drawing, botany and wood engraving, and spent much of his youth sketching the ancient stones and holy wells of west Penwith, soon gaining the respect of scholars like Robert Stephen Hawker, James Orchard Halliwell and Sabine-Baring Gould. His work was in demand, and he published several books, including the delightfully evocative A Week at the Land’s End (1861), in which he illustrated ‘the extreme western point of England; its romantic scenery, its natural productions, and its ancient legends’.
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| By Bob Berry
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| ISBN: 0906720613
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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This book includes some of the finest, iconic views of the coast of Cornwall – where land meets sea, meets sky.
Bob Berry is an award-winning photographer, with a passion for coastal landscapes. Frank Ruhrmund writes regularly on the arts for The Cornishman and the Western Morning News.
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| By June Opie
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| ISBN: 0906720176
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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Composer Priaulx Rainier was described by Sir Yehudi Menuhin as having ‘a musical imagination of a colour and variety scarcely to be believed’. Born in South Africa, she was Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music. A contemporary and close friend of St Ives artists Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth, she spent much of her time in Cornwall.
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| By Mary Wright
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| ISBN: 0906720052
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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In late nineteenth-century Cornwall, hand-knitting was an important cottage industry, and coastal villages developed their own distinctive patterns and names for the traditional navy blue guernsey. By the 1920s contract knitting had died out and was almost forgotten until Mary Wright started asking old people about it. Her research resulted in ‘a remarkable picture of social history’ (The Guardian), ‘fascinating reading … beautifully produced’ (Western Morning News).
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| By T.A. Morrison
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| ISBN: 0906720109
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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In the mid-nineteenth century, Cornwall led the world in the art and science of mining for metals. The Camborne-Redruth district contains some of the most intensively mined ground anywhere in the world. This book charts the history of the mines of Tolgus Downs, Pool and Roskear-Roscroggan.
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| By T.A. Morrison
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| ISBN: 0906720117
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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The companion volume to Cornwall’s Central Mines: The Northern District, this book charts the boom and decline of the mines of the south-west outskirts of Redruth.
1st edition
Cased
500 pages
48 b/w photos, 16 maps and line drawings
200 x 135mm
1983
Introduction
Section 1: Camborne Town: Dolcoath; Stray Park; Camborne Vean; Camborne Consols; Carn Camborne; Wheal Harriett; West Stray Park
Section 2: Baripper; North Dolcoath; Wheal Nelson; West Tolcarne; Trevoole
Section 3: Beacon and Troon; West Condurrow; Wheal Tryphena; Condurrow; Tolcarne and South Tolcarne; South Condurrow; Wheal Grenville; East Wheal Grenville; Bolenowe; South Dolcoath
Section 4: Carnkie; North Wheal Frances; West Wheal Frances; South Wheal Frances; West Wheal Basset; Wheal Basset; South Wheal Basset; Buller and Basset United; North Wheal Basset; East Wheal Basset; Copper Hill
Section 5: Buller Downs; Wheal Buller; East Wheal Buller; Bell Vean, Bell and Lannarth; South Buller and West Penstruthal; Penstruthal; Carvannel
Section 6: Lanner; Wheal Comford; Tresavean; Treviskey; Trethellan; Trelusback
Section 7: Redruth Churchtown; South Carn Brea; North Buller; Wheal Uny; Clijah and Wentworth; East Wheal Uny; East Carn Brea; Wheal Union; Sundry Mines
Index
The two books together are ‘the first work to treat this complex subject in a truly comprehensive way’, which ‘those who are interested in metal mining … cannot fail to enjoy’ (IMM Bulletin). They are ‘a must for serious students of Cornish mining’ (Old Cornwall), ‘an altogether handsome work … a scholarly study of true historic worth’ (Western Morning News).
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| By Richard Maber and Angela Tregoning
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| ISBN: 0906720192
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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This is the first complete edition of the Cornish Diary, one of only three of Kilvert’s surviving original notebooks. Copiously illustrated with contemporary photographs and engravings, it gives a fascinating picture of Kilvert, and of a Cornwall balanced between the old and the new. Kilvert’s Diary is a classic – beautifully written, a work of literature.
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| By Dorothy Yglesias
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| ISBN: 0906720184
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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The world-famous Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital and Sanctuary was founded in 1928 by Dorothy and Phyllis Yglesias. This is the story of how the sisters built it up and ran it, written to enlarge ‘human understanding of bird life, and especially bird character’
2nd edition
Paperback
136 pages
194 x 128mm
1989
Preface to the New Edition
Preface to the 1973 Edition
I The Involuntary Hospital
II Jackdaws Show the Way
III Taking Shape
IV From all the Ages of Man
V Peril on the Sea
VI Divers from the Deep
VIII The War Years and After
IX Lovers and Parents
X From Air, Sea and Land
XI Some Unusual Personalities
XII Owls and Others
XIII Strangers with a Place in Our Thoughts
XIV The Value of Life
XV What of the Future?
Appendix I
Appendix II
‘They made themselves the servants of the least of Creatures. One ends the book with a feeling of great humility in the presence of qualities not abundant in contemporary life’ (Country Life)
Dorothy Yglesias and her sister Phyllis (Pog) first came to Mousehole in 1912.
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| By Douglas Ellory Pett
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| ISBN: 0906720273
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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The Parks and Gardens of Cornwall is the most comprehensive survey of the subject for any county in England. Some 440 sites are grouped into districts centred on the principal towns, and arranged to correspond with the Ordnance Survey Landranger maps. The descriptions will interest local and garden historians, and all those who wish to know something of the families, architects and social background, as well as the designers who created the gardens of Cornwall.
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| By Charles E. Harvey
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| ISBN: 0906720036
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| CATEGORY: Out of print
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Winner of the 1981 Wadsworth Prize for Business History, Dr Harvey’s independent study of the Rio Tinto Company is a valuable addition to the sparse empirical literature on international business. It also enlightens aspects of modern Spanish history.
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