Porthleven Food Festival 16th and 17th April 2016
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Cornwall Art Fair 2016
The first Art Fair in St. Ives! 22-24 April 2016 at the St.Ives Guildhall. Register for a FREE entry ticket
Trevithick Day 2016 Saturday April 30th
On Saturday 30th April 2016 the streets of Camborne will come alive with a spectacular day of free Steam, entertainment and much more
Canadian company to buy 26 tin mines in Cornwall
Strongbow Exploration will take over South Crofty Tin Project near Redruth, which shut down in March 1998. Europe’s last tin mine in Cornwall. At the time campaigners trying to raise the profile of Cornwall’s economic crisis crossed the Tamar Bridge paying the £1.00 toll in pennies. New life could be breathed into Cornwall’s once-proud tin industry […]
Cornish identity: why Cornwall has always been a separate place
Article from The Guardian Recognition of the Cornish people as an official minority only confirms the differences that become obvious the moment you cross the Tamar. This is a separateness that runs deep When I first drove down to live in Cornwall more than 20 years ago, I was met by a graffiti message […]
Piran tide Events and St Piran’s Day Parades 2015
5th March 2015 St Piran’s Day Bodmin ~ St Piran’s Day Parade ~ More Info Bude ~ St Piran’s Day Walk ~ More Info Falmouth ~ St Piran’s Day Parade ~ 10.00 to 11.40 am The parade will leave from the Moor. Newquay ~ St Piran’s Day Parade ~ More Info Launceston ~ St. Piran’s Day – Lanson […]
Digital High Street Skills
Dates for Launch Events as follows… The Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership has successfully secured funding to help small businesses trading in town centres to develop their digital skills and grow their business online. The fund is open to all small businesses whether you are a shop, guest house, restaurant or office. […]
Lostwithiel Dickensian Evening 2014
Lostwithiel Dickensian Evening 2014 Thursday December 11th
Cornish Wrestling Exhibition
CORNISH WRESTLING EXHIBITION 8TH & 9TH NOVEMBER Billiard Room, Landithy Hall, Madron in association with the Cornish Wrestling Association. MORE INFO
Nathan Outlaw to demonstrate at 2014 Boscastle Festival
Nathan Outlaw will be demonstrating at this years 10th anniversary of the Boscastle Food Art & Craft Festival 4th and 5th October. On the 16th August 2004 a flood swept through the village causing much damage, the community rallied together and the first Boscastle Festival took place in October.
Brigantine ‘Eye of the Wind’ bound for Tall Ship Regatta
Brigantine ‘Eye of the Wind’ bound for Tall Ship Regatta “Open ship” presentation in Falmouth and London-Royal Greenwich Around 35 years ago the traditional square rigger ‘Eye of the Wind’ was the flagship and base camp of the renowned scientific expedition “Operation Drake”. HRH Charles, Prince of Wales himself steered the proud brig while he […]
Classic Cornwall 2014 – Three Concerts at St Columb Major 26/28/30 August
Harmoniemusik at the Parish Church ~ St Columb Major – 26/28/30 August 2014 The classical music group Harmoniemusik will again visit the Parish Church of St Columb Major to perform three varied and entertaining concerts. The St Columb Festival was launched in the early 1970s by Cornish born Richard Cooke, whose father Canon Cooke served at […]
The Walking Path ~ Artworks Exploring Pilgrimage and Place
15th-22nd August 2014 Opening Event Night: 15th August 6.30pm (food available, tapas).£3 entrance Closing Event Night: 22nd August 6.30pm onwards. £3 entrance. Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Nr Gulval, TR20 8YL THE WAKING PATH- ARTWORKS EXPLORING PILGRIMAGE, JOURNEY AND PLACE. When Roger Thorp was invited by Neil and Jane Armstrong, late one winters night, to create […]
CALLING ALL ENTREPRENEURS – LAST CHANCE TO JOIN THE IGNITE EXPERIENCE!
Ignite 2014, the £120,000 business start-up competition, delivered by Oxford Innovation as part of the ERDF funded Coaching for High Growth programme, continues to search for innovative entrepreneurs in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly who plan to start a new business or have been trading for less than a year. A series […]
Bodmin Riding and Heritage day 5th July
Bodmin Riding and Heritage Day download full programme of events.
Golowan Festival and Mazey Day 2014
Celebration of midsummer – the Feast of St. John – with bonfires, flaming tar barrels and burning torches was widespread in Cornwall until the late 19th Century. Penzance was one of the last towns to lose this tradition in the 1890s, as the perceived fire risk had made insurance premiums too expensive. In 1991, the […]
Government will recognise the Cornish under the Framework Convention for Protection of National Minorities.
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander MP, will tomorrow announce that the government will recognise the Cornish under the Framework Convention for Protection of National Minorities. Being recognised as a minority may sound like a technicality but it’s a big deal. The Cornish will have the same protections as the Welsh, Scottish […]
Trevithick Day 2014
On Saturday 26th April 2014 the streets of Camborne will come alive with a spectacular day of free Steam, entertainment and much more…