Archive
LOCAL DOCUMENTS.
Whether the recollections of a local, or the impressions of someone passing through the Rame Peninsula, the tale written down becomes a powerful asset in understanding what our community was like in times past.
It is important we collect the written images from long resident locals to compare with the transient impressions of the visitor passing through as if on some 'grand tour'.
Please click on one of the following:
NEW 2023
' The Rame Peninsula - A Celtic and Saxon History' Rob Keys
NEW 2022
1910 Cave Dwellers at Seaton and Downderry an illustrated report from 1910 (?)
1912 A Tragedy on the Cornish Coast,1912 a reprint ot an occasional paper by kind permission of the author, Bob Keys who talked to our group in May 2022 about a melo-dramatic silent movie from 110 years ago filmed locally in Portwrinkle.
A History of a Cornish Garden (Mount Edgcumbe Gardens) In response to a National Women's Institute Competition, Maker with Rame branch embarked upon this study. Kindly made available by Anne Helliwell (1990's?)
1799 A Journey into Cornwall by George Luscomb 1799 quote ' going down the hill, towards Kingsand, we met several females whose appearance was so grotesque and extraordinary................'
2021
1946 Millbrook post World WarTwo Celebrations - a programme of events 1946
NEW 2020
1946 Kings Certificate to all School Children sent to all children in 1946 at the end of the Second World War. This copy is kindly reproduced of Joyce Smith.
1930's Skinners Official Guide to Millbrook Cawsand Kingsand and Whitsand From the mid 1930s here is an advertising booklet promoting available Motor Coach Tours from and around the Rame Peninsula. Along with local information, timetables and charges, there is much detail from many local businesses.
NEW 2019
1948-49 Millbrook Rangers AFC Fixture list 1948-49. Not the complete document, but interesting for the advertisers (ie Local Traders) Note: three teams being run.
NEW 2018
1924 Margaret Willcocks' Botany Workbook. Born in Cawsand, in 1924, a sixteen year old carried out a cliff-side survey of the flora found as part of her school work. This was recently passed to RPHG and the family has agreed to our publishing the document here. The original had been passed to Plymouth University where it is to be used in ecological studies considering the possible effect of sea level change on coastal plant species.
Margaret's workbook is accompanied here by a SHORT BIOGRAPHY.
Under our GALLERY TAB, we have also published a short slide show of some contemporary Images
Polbathic - an illustrated history of the 19th and 20th Century compiled by a resident Mrs Tamblyn.
1814 A Journal with Delineations from Nature and Remarks Descriptive Principally of Cornwall by Richard Hopkins Leach 1814 Have you ever walked into a pub and all heads turn towards you? Imagine arriving well dressed in a smoke filled 'Cross Keys' pub in Cawsand in 1814. You don't fit in - how do the locals react? Read on.
Cornwall a Land of Folklore and Legends? Many historians have recorded the oral traditions handed down in the 18th and 19th Centurues. These became a unique selling point for the Great Western Railway to exploit in attempting to lure visitors to the peninsula. Extracts from the railway publications can be seen here
Tony Carne's historical articles for the 'Courier' (The Parish Church magazine 2007 onwards..............)
Another Old Chap in a Bowler - a tale of George Locker, the driver of Haddy's horsebus.
Booze and Boats - a warning from history
Temperance - in a smuggling and seafaring village
The 'Happy Go Lucky' Affair Part 1 - the deed and the smugglers who were caught
The 'Happy Go Lucky' Affair Part 2 - what happened next???
Brains vs Chains - snow chains on the ferry run???
Sixty Years On - a 1940's 'Courier' reveals.......
The Tea Dealer - 'fair trade' in Cawsand???
Tin, Salt, Baccy and Brandy - smugglers at Rame?
November 1915 - five of Rame's finest.......
Passing Through.......
Just what did travellers make of the Rame Peninsula 180 years ago?
What were the details of everyday life?
Over the last 200 hundred years and more, many references have been made to the
Rame Peninsula by passing travellers, annual gazetteers and chroniclers.
The original documents may well apply to the whole of the South West or just to Cornwall.
Extracts from some of these documents are presented here to provide some local detail,
that today we might seek from say Lonely Planet or Rough Guides. In some cases the
original documents are more lofty scientific reports.
Where possible their original source is quoted should you wish to consult the whole document.
Journal of a Tour of the Southern Coasts of England 1795
The History of Cornwall Fortescue Hitchins 1824
The History of Cornwall Fortescue Hitchins 1829
The Cornish Register Maker Wallis 1838
The Cornish Register Rame Wallis 1838
Slaters Royal National and Commercial Directory 1852-3
Post Office Directory Maker Cawsand Millbrook 1856
Village History Reminiscences W J Cox 1878 from Rev. White papers here
Kellys Directory 1893 Maker
Kellys Directory 1893 Rame
In addition, some of our parish documents are included - not the births, deaths and records variety,
(these are referred to on our REGISTRY pages.) but those of local publications.
Parish magazines of 100 years ago contrast life as it was 40 years ago.
Well known local family names appear in the documents and make an obvious connection
with today"s population.
NEW 2017 Millbrook Parish Council Meeting Minutes 1932 - 1937 Handwritten
(useful index at beginning)
Millbrook Parish Council Meeting Minutes 1939 - 1946 Handwritten
Maker and Rame Parish Magazine October 1899
Ferry (CREMYLL) Agreement 1911 (signed after inter-ferry company 'trading war')
Maker and Rame Parish Magazine March 1915
Maker with Rame Courier 1979 Sam Mashford
PAST EVENTS.
Be it a Royal Wedding Anniversary, local sporting event or celebration, the gathering together of local people
provide a unique record of how the local population responded to special events.
Programmes, advertisements and photos remain of local people and the scenes when these events were held.
Click on any of the following to see more:
Cawsand Bay Regatta 14th August 1952
Kingsand-Cawsand Carnival August 1983
If you have a item of 'Rame History', could we publish it here? We will fully acknowledge
ownership and authorship.
Please contact: info@ramehistorygroup.org.uk