This is the last of my current videos exploring Cornwall, but I shall return. Today, Mark Sellwood and I explore the fabulous harbour and surround of Mousehole, a popular tourist resort and fishing village. Mousehole is approximately 2.5 miles south of Penzance on the shore of Mount’s Bay. The village is in the civil parish […]
Today, Mark Sellwood and I are taking a look at the Iron Age village of Carn Euny in Cornwall as we near the end of my whistle stop tour. Carn Euny is an archaeological site near Sancreed, on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall with considerable evidence of both Iron Age and post-Iron Age settlement. Excavations […]
Mark and I are at St Agnes Head and we have spotted something rather curious. Determined to understand what it is we clamber down the cliff side to the beach to explore more. Since the 17th century there have been many attempts to create a harbour for St Agnes. Between 1632 and 1709 the Tonkins, […]
I am on a whistle stop tour of Cornwall. My friend Mark Sellwood is showing me around St Agnes, a beautiful village on the north coast. This is just a stroll through and is not meant to be a detailed guide to the area. The village of St Agnes, a popular coastal tourist spot, lies […]
I am scared. I don’t like heights and I have just climbed up Roche Rock and now my legs have turned to jelly! In this episode, Mark Sellwood and I, have come to explore a medieval chapel built onto a huge lump of granite, known as Roche Rock. On top of Roche Rock is a […]
Today, as part of my explorations of Cornwall, Mark Sellwood and I take a visit of the old Gunpowder workings that was based at Kennal Vale, near Redruth. Fired up in 1812, the Kennal Vale Gunpowder Works were laid out across 20 acres of forest land. The gunpowder was sent to the Cornish mines mostly. […]