Can Camborne RFC maintain top form without several key players? Is their 1977-78 Centenary Season about to falter..?
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Rugby Special ~ Part Three
Camborne RFC’s 1977-78 Centenary Season would not be complete without giving their old rivals Redruth RFC a good beating…
Rugby Special ~ Part Two
Camborne RFC’s 1977-78 Centenary Season kicks off, and there’s no easy games as they face up to the best in Cornwall, and international talent from Wales…
Rugby Special ~ Part One
The story of Camborne RFC’s monumental Centenary Season, 1977-78, when they took on the best sides in the land…as told by the players themselves!
Murder, Debt, Riot: Richard Holloway, Redruth Solicitor
The career of a local solicitor laid bare, with an overview of his cases, financial problems, and harrowing family tragedy…
The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales
Part two. Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish and Welsh mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…
The Man Who Photographed the Miners: J. C. Burrow in Cornwall and Wales
Who was the man who photographed the miners? How did he do it? What risks did he take? Didn’t he always operate in Cornwall? Read the story behind the stunning photographs of Cornish mining in the 1800s, by John Charles Burrow…
Effigy Burning in 1800s Cornwall
What happens when the working classes take the law into their own hands? Nobody was safe from the phenomenon of effigy burning: philanderers, politicians, mine owners, perverts…
Works in Progress, May 2022
Dear All… I realise it’s been some time since my last post on Paul Rabey the Younger, and no new articles as yet! I can only apologise; the demands of a full-time job and a family means I always research and write my work whenever I have a spare moment. But never fear, new andContinue reading “Works in Progress, May 2022”
Paul Rabey and The Foreign Girls’ Protection Society: They Died With Their Shoes On, Part Five
A sinister and extraordinary post…Victorian Cornwall’s most notorious con-artist and Victorian London’s dark underworld…an unpleasant conclusion to this series…
Francis Edwards ~ The Cornish Historian 