myCornwall myCornwall- (Previously Cornish World) The magazine for anyone who loves Cornwall. We've worked hard to bring you a crisper, more modern look for the magazine whilst retaining all your favourite features. Filled with over 100 pages of Cornish gardens, food and drink reviews, local heroes, Cornish connections, local wildlife, places to visit, far flung Cornish adventures, heritage, culture, mysteries and histories, we hope you continue to enjoy the magazine as much as we have enjoyed working on it!

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June/July 2009
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In this issue of Cornish World:
Wish You Were Here - a history of Cornwall through postcards
Done Up Like A Tantony Pig - Cornish parish nicknames revealed
Second Home For All - are second homes killing Cornish communities?
Raise A Glass - the Cornish breweries beating the recession
Changes on a Headland - how we note nature's changes on a Cornish clifftop
Heritage Under Threat - how Portugal is learning from Cornwall's mine management
Countryside pursuits - fishing for fun and food
Legal Advice Made Easy - how to protect your company with your will
Titanic Tales - the Cornish who perished on that fateful night
Paul - where heritage comes alive

Cornish family history, Jean Harry, poetry, power kiting, dialect, stories, Kernewek, arts, events and lots more news, views and information for anyone with an interest in Cornwall.

Oh, and another really funny foreword...
June/July 2009
New articles...
Look out, the Falmouth Trollops are coming to Shagtown...
Pete London explores the colourful connotations of some Cornish parish nicknames.
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A list of Cornish parish nicknames...
List of Cornish parish nicknames (thanks to the Federation of Old Cornwall Societies' journal Old Cornwall and thanks in particular to Michael Tangye/Whythrer Meyn, Redruth Old Cornwall Society)

Brea Cuckoos
Breage Strangers
Bude Mules
Buryan Boars
Bodmin Shoe Makers
Carn Brea Nannygoats
Camborne Merygeeks
Carnkie Blackbirds
Chacewater Scat-ups
Churchtown Nannygoats
Chyandour Scads
Connor Crows
Constantine Pilchards
Coverack Braves
Crowan Crows
Cury Crows
Egloskerry Rough Head...

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Changes on a Cornish Headland
Changes on a Cornish Headland
Jean Lawman reflects

Being on the headland is like being on the bridge of a ship; you are surrounded by the vast arena of the sea; 228 degrees of it, between 90 and 318 de...
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Cornwall\'s Mining Heritage

What can we learn about Cornwall’s mining Heritage?

Comparing the Cornish and Portuguese experiences by Tehmina Goskar


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Postcard History

A history of Cornwall in postcards.

Nigel Pengelly meets Murray King and discusses how postcards captured Cornwall beautifully for posterity.


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Paul- A Village History
Discovering Cornwall
Paul – where history comes alive
By Gemma Viant
Pictures by Richard Lumb

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Celt or Pagan?
CELT OR PAGAN?

DRUID OR CHRISTIAN?


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Hurley\'s Dialect Yarn
Randle Hurley

Eello My ’Ansome.


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Titanic Connections

Cornwall and the Titanic


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