Penwith Local History Group Publication
Growing Up in West Cornwall
Edited by Sally Corbet
Published by Penwith Local History Group (2019)
ISBN 978-0-9954940-1-5 (Paperback, 100 pages)
Available to purchase: £10.00 (plus p&p)
Penwith Local History Group will be launching their latest book on Saturday 17th August 2019 at the Morrab Library Penzance.
Growing up in West Cornwall describes the experience of childhood in West Cornwall, from the seventeenth century onwards. It documents childhood memories, mostly from the early years of the twentieth century, set in the context of institutions that structured the children’s lives – the village schools and the workhouse.
The recollections captured here deal with schooldays, holidays, home life (sometimes when the father has gone mining overseas, or when the parents are busy Newlyn artists); and starting work, as an undertaker’s apprentice in a spooky situation or a fisherboy preparing meals for the crew.
How many of us regret that we did not ask our grandparents more about their childhood? This book helps us to understand how it felt to be a child in West Cornwall in the very different world of earlier centuries. Family historians will welcome the surname index.
Growing up in West Cornwall describes the experience of childhood in West Cornwall, from the seventeenth century onwards. It documents childhood memories, mostly from the early years of the twentieth century, set in the context of institutions that structured the children’s lives – the village schools and the workhouse.
The recollections captured here deal with schooldays, holidays, home life (sometimes when the father has gone mining overseas, or when the parents are busy Newlyn artists); and starting work, as an undertaker’s apprentice in a spooky situation or a fisherboy preparing meals for the crew.
How many of us regret that we did not ask our grandparents more about their childhood? This book helps us to understand how it felt to be a child in West Cornwall in the very different world of earlier centuries. Family historians will welcome the surname index.
Penwith Local History Group
"Growing Up in West Cornwall"
Edited by
Sally Corbet
price £10.00
plus p&p
The Morrab Library showing the new extension.
Photo Glyn Richards
Photo Glyn Richards