Goonhavern Male Voice Choir – 1926 Back Row: Jack Varker, Will Menhenitt, Will Dunstan, Harold Buddell, Arthur Lucas, Reg Salmon & Jim Rice. Middle Row: Arthur Grubb, Jack Glanville, Will Rowe, Stanley Buddell, Harold Trembath & Ernie Rockett. Front Row: Unknown, Kernick Ellery, Mat Thomas (Betty Dingle’s father), Matthew Hoskin
Tony Mansell
- 15 December 2024
Bert Biscoe’s tribute to John Cockle of Truro. General Cockle’s Song Click above to listen Johnny Cockle was a Sally Army man! All his days the trumpet blew, Before the mast, and shouldering coals, And speaking out to rile the few: He’d spread a blanket, a pure honey
- 9 December 2024
The Guize Dance Beasts of Cornwall, history and meaning,
Merv Davey- 29 September 2024
Extracts from the notebook of John Giddy, Gentleman, 18th century music music in Cornwall.
Michael O'Connor- 11 September 2024
A series of articles in the Old Cornwall Journal between 1939 and 1942 carried recollections of the Red Herring / Herring Song. Stanley Pascoe recalled a version given to him by his grandfather, William Pascoe (1838 -1911) who was "born and bred" at St Mawes. Stanley Pascoe explained "there was
- Merv Davey
- 8 September 2024