An uplifting composition from the pen of Keith Busby of Helston Town Band with more than a hint of that town’s favourite piece of music. Included with the kind permission of Keith Busby (composer) and Helston Town Band (performers)
Geoffrey Self (1930-2008) Pavane was written by Geoffrey Self who lived and taught in Cornwall for many years. Adrian Self has written a trubute to his father and it can be found here together with a loving poem by Adian’s wife, Pam.
We understand that this sheet music is copyright free but if this is not the case then please let us know and you will either be credited, or the photographs removed. Included in Psalmodia Evangelica 1789 / Hymns and Psalms – Methodist The MHB(1933) contained 2 tunes, one LM
The Revd Henry Richard Jennings was the Vicar of Madron, Canon of St Constantine in Truro Cathedral, Senior Sub-Chaplin of the Order of St John and Cornish Bard (Saws Degemerys). We understand that this sheet music is copyright free but if this is not the case then please let
As mentioned in the introduction, gatherings involving tea drinking were clearly linked to early Sunday school activities and it would be good to know when they developed into what we now think of as a tea treat. Our story begins when such events were specifically organised both as a treat
A project by Dr Merv Davey, Tony Mansell and Dr Garry Tregidga The objective of this project is to collect, preserve and share aspects of a Cornish phenomenon which spanned almost two hundred years. It clearly caught the imagination of many people, evinced by the fact that the anecdotes, memories,
Talskiddy 1903: “… The chapel anniversary services at Talskiddy last week were largely attended. The Foxhole Brass Band headed the procession of Sunday-school children and teachers through St. Columb, and a public tea was afterwards held, …” (18 June 1903 – Royal Cornwall Gazette) 1906: “Upwards of 250 partook of tea at the Talskiddy
Radnor Peter Malindine’s * wife, Valerie, was born in Hawthorn Cottage, Radnor Road, Scorrier in 1932 and remembers being taken to Radnor Bible Christian Chapel Sunday school events, by farmer Will Snell in his pony and Jingle. (* For more about Peter Malindine see Silverwell) Rame 1918: Rame with
Adjewhella Adjewhella Chapel (Photo: courtesy David Thomas) 1913: Adjewhella Wesleyan Sunday School: “The annual tea treat was held on Thursday. Redruth Season Band headed the procession, which visited Barripper, Ramsgate and Penponds, and then returned to a field …” (17 July 1913 – The Cornish Telegraph) Allet 1904: Allet United Methodist Sunday School:
St Austell Old Cornwall Society The other hymn tune is Eglos Kernow