1800s•Mousehole
Tom Bawcock's Eve: The Fisherman Who Saved a Village
Every December 23rd, the village of Mousehole celebrates Tom Bawcock's Eve with a peculiar dish called Stargazy Pie — a fish pie with whole pilchards poking the...
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Travel through Cornwall's history, decade by decade. Each story is a window into a different era of Cornish life.
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1800s•Camborne
Richard Trevithick: The Cornishman Who Invented the Steam Age
On Christmas Eve, 1801, a crowd gathered on the road above Camborne to witness something that had never been seen before in all of human history: a machine that...
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1800s•Padstow
The Obby Oss: Padstow's Ancient May Day Ritual
Every year on May 1st, the fishing town of Padstow erupts into one of the oldest and strangest celebrations in Britain. The Obby Oss — the "Hobby Horse" — dance...
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