Wadebridge has until now cleverly and quietly combined the best of the past while embracing what the present has to offer. The key survival from the past, that keeps its modern heart beating,
is the network of independent traders offering those essential everyday commodities that bring local people into its streets for supplies and sociability. That heart has been carved out of most towns of similar size in Cornwall by their circling superstores. In Wadebridge it is still beating strongly.
Wadebridge has thus retained its butchers, bakers, candlestick maker, wine merchant, delicatessens, toy shops, ironmonger, book shop, electrical shop, news agents, cinema, haberdasheries, clothes shops and the rest.
If we allowed our independent and local traders to be squeezed out, which would be the inevitable result of supermarket expansion, the future of Wadebridge would become drab and bland.
Yellow Wire Support the Mercury Phoenix Trust
On September 2nd Yellow Wire are taking part in a charity Stand Up Paddle Board Marathon (SUP). The band will start at Sunset Surf Café, Gwythian and travel across the bay to Porthmeor St Ives before going back across to Godrevy Island and returning to the café [...]
Driving back across the Tamar Bridge into Cornwall, no ordinary border.
The government want to make constituency sizes more equal which is a reasonable idea in general. However this process will ignore all historical borders, feelings of community etc, which could mean parts of Cornwall being split off and joined with parts of Devon for seats.
Keep Cornwall [...]
Newquay Fish Festival is a three day event, dates for this year are 10-12th September. For a full list of events, check out the programme on the Newquay Fish Festival site here
“Proper job” Newquay Fish Festival 2009 here
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The Anglo-Cornish War of June-August 1549
Craig Weatherhill
PART ONE
Prelude to War
Make no mistake. 1549, the blackest year in Cornish history, should not be minimized as merely a “Prayer Book Rebellion”, as is the trend of mainstream histories. It was nothing less than all-out war, instigated by injustice and fuelled by outrage, but most books say [...]