News & Recent Events

NOVEMBER 22nd 2022 7:30pm at The Perranwell Centre
Quirky Cornwall

Tuesday 22nd Nov 7.30 pm at the Perranwell Centre “Quirky Cornwall” with Kingsley Rickard. Read more...

OCT 2022
The Married Widows of Cornwall

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SEPT 2022
Perranwell in the 1950s

Bob was born and brought up in Perranwell, where his family had lived since before WW1. Click here to see more on this event: Read more...

JUL 2022
History Walk

On Sunday 10th July, Steve Hartgroves led a history walk round Kennal Vale
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APR 2022
New Book!

The Perran-ar-worthal Local History Group are re-starting with a ‘soft’ opening on Sunday afternoon 24th April at 2.30pm. We will base ourselves in the West Room at the Perranwell Centre, but the idea is to launch Chris Burton’s new book entitled ‘PERRANWELL SELF-GUIDED WALK’ over a coffee and a chat, with an update on our work, followed by a short walk based on Chris’s new book for those who would like to join us. Your ideas for future events are most welcome.
As this is the first meeting for over 2 years it will be free and open to all. If things go to plan we hope to revert to our usual weekday evening meetings starting with an AGM and a speaker at the end of May.
Both Chris’s books will be on sale at this event for those who wish to buy them.
NEW BOOK: Perranwell self-guided walk at £5
ALSO AVAILABLE Perran-ar-worthal self -guided walk at £3

JUN 2021
Josephus Bishop

Whilst we are not having meetings at the moment due to Covid restrictions people have been doing some research. We had had a request for information through our website from a family researching their great grandfather, Josephus Bishop, who was born at Greensplat, Perranarworthal in 1843. They provided the following background and ask some questions; Read more...

JAN 2020
SMUGGLING

Once again there was a full house for the PLHG January meeting. The speaker was Mark Camp, a local Blue badge Guide, whose topic was “Smuggling , Fact or Fiction” Mark talked of his involvement with Tony Robinson of “The walking through History” TV programme. Through this Mark started investigating the smuggling history of Cornwall. Read more...

NOV 2019
ST EUNY

In November Perranarworthal Local History Group members & guests were treated to an unusual topic named “Until the Day Break – stories from a Cornish Churchyard”. Read more...

OCT 2019
WHAT'S IN A CRACK?

This was an unusual title and an unusual topic for the meeting of Local History Group on Oct 8th, but accredited conservator and restorer of paintings, Sarah Cove, was able to explain how the cracks in paintings reveal the history of the art work and the development of new materials and styles. She used examples of the Newlyn painters like Stanhope Forbes to illustrate her talk. Read more...

SEPT 2019
EARLY MINERAL RAILWAYS IN WEST CORNWALL

David Ager gave an illustrated talk about theh mineral tramways of this area of Cornwall includin the Poldice Tramway . The Redruth and Chacewater Railway and the Hayle Railway and how they changed due to technical advances. Read more...

AUG 2019
MEDIEVALS ROOTS OF THE MODERN LANDSCAPE

Steve Hartgroves spoke about the origins of the landscape of this area in his talk on Tuesday 13th Aug. Read more...

JULY 2019
HISTORY ROADSHOW

The drop in session at the pub on Friday 5th July was well attended and people had an opportunity to share pictures and artefacts, talk about past events in the village and to interrogate the Historic Cornwall website (historic-cornwall.org.uk ) . Chris Burton also spoke about the history of one of the older houses in the village, Tullimaar, which was the home of William Golding author of Lord of the Flies. Thanks to Tim and Lizzie at the Royal Oak for hosting this event.

JUNE 2019
TIME WALK THROUGH PERRANWELL

On a pleasant summer evening, 54 villagers and others from the surrounding area enjoyed a leisurely stroll around Perranwell looking at points of interest. The walk was researched and lead by Ruth Ward and Carrie Langford of the local history group.

APRIL 2019
THE ENYS FAMILY

Terry Chapman, a local historian spoke to a packed house of the Perran-ar-worthal Local History Group on 30th April 2019 about the Enys family of Penryn. He has spent some time working on the Enys family archives which are now accessible via the website: enysfamilyarchive.com and will also reside at the Cornwall Records Office.Read more...

MARCH 2019
100 FACES, 100 STORIES

Joanna Mattingly gave an interesting talk entitled 100 Faces 100 Stories. Local historian Joanna was the manager of this project with aimed to highlight local Cornish stories of WW1. The idea was to find unusual “quirky” aspects of war stories. Read more...

FEB 2019
PEOPLE AND PLACES THAT MAKE LOCAL HISTORY

Carole Vivian, Chair of the Cornwall Association of Local Historians,has extensively researched her local area, focusing in particular on Trelawne House & the surrounding area. Built circa 1450 it became the home of the Trelawney family.
Carole explained how she used different research archives to find her information.Read more...

JAN 2019
HISTORY OF THE CORNISH LANGUAGE

Dr Linnea Glynne – Rule gave a talk on the History of the Cornish Language She explained that Cornish is descended from the Celtic languages of continental Europe and has several forms and dialects, but that a lack of early records make it difficult to date. The major writings are the Passion Plays, “PasconAgan Arluth” written at Glasney as part of the Cornish Ordinalia around 1390.Read more...

NOV 2018
THE FALMOUTHPACKET SHIPS

David Pollard gave a interesting and informative talk on the Falmouth Packet Ships to a packed house. Packet ships were the fast sailing ships that carried mail, passengers and bullion to and from the far flung corners of the British Empire, to destinations around Europe such as Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Egypt, and worldwide to North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands. Read more...

SEPTEMBER 2018
THE CORNWALL & WEST DEVON MINING LANDSCAPE WORLD HERITAGE SITE

Ainsley Cocks talked to a packed room on Tuesday25th Septemberabout the mining past of this area and its designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Read more...

JULY 2018
THE CIVIL WAR IN CORNWALL 1642-1646

It seemed, at the start of the evening,to be a widely held view that Cornwall’s role in the ‘English’ civil war was marginal, and fairly minimal, that ‘not much happened here’ between 1642 and 1646 apart perhaps from the siege of Pendennis Castle, and the surrender on Tresillian Bridge. Tony Mansel’s talk to the PLHG showed that this assessment was, in fact, far from an accurate assessment of the events in the Duchy during those four momentous years. Read more...

JUNE 2018
PERRANWHARF: PLHG WALK WITH CHRIS BURTON

About 28 people gathered in the car park of the Norway Inn on a fine June evening for an introduction to the many important historic sites which developed around Perranwharf from the mid 18th century onwards. Read more...

MARCH 2018
METHODS OF RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORY

Dr Garry Tregidga gave a talk on Methods of Researching Local History on 29th March.Dr Tregidga’s talk was both entertaining and inspiring. Read more...

JANUARY 2018
TELL-A-TALE Evening

Members of the Perran-ar-worthal local history group held a well-attended open meeting to report back on the research they are carrying out and the stories they have uncovered about this area. Read more...

NOVEMBER 2017
FEOCK HISTORY

On Friday 10th November Phil Allengave an interesting talk on Feock’s historical heritage and explained how they disseminated information about the interesting historical locations within the parish through a series of walks called the Feock Trails. Read more...

SEPTEMBER 2017
STEVE HARTGROVES

On the 26th of September Steve Hartgroves presented a highly entertaining and profusely illustrated talk at the Village Hall entitled HISTORIC CORNWALL FROM THE AIR. This was the first of a series of enjoyable and informative evening talks organised by the PLHG on the history (and archaeology) of the parish and its surroundings areas.Read more...