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History Home Miners Mystery Life in 1920's Cornwall Cornish life in 1800

My Grandfather was born in Ludgvan near Penzance on June 24th 1907, he grew up in what was then a very rural part of the county. In his later years he decided, quite independently of any family history interest on my part to write some memories for my brother and I . What follows are some edited extracts from those memoirs which give some insights into life in West Cornwall in the early 1900’s.

 

Life in Cornwall in the Early 1900’s
Childhood Memories War Time Family My Working Life Feasts, Fetivals and Freetime Working for Great Western Railways in the 1920’s Christmas Clothes
Penzance, 1920.  (Neg. 69727)  © Copyright The Francis Frith Collection 2006. http://www.francisfrith.com
Reproduced courtesy of The Francis Frith Collection.