Category: Place
Town or city or historical sites, beaches and gardens, but not landscapes
Jubilee Pool
The Jubilee Pool was designed in the early 1930s by Captain F Latham, the Borough Engineer. The pool was opened with great celebration in May 1935, the year of King George V’s Silver Jubilee. The sea water pool was built on the Battery Rocks which were used as a natural bathing spot. It is a…
St Michael’s Mount in Winter
I have taken you to SMM many times before but usually to explore the garden which has to be one of the most unusual in the county if not the country, clinging as it does to the almost vertical cliffs and full of exotic and tender plants. During the winter months the garden is closed…
a winter walk by the Fal
West Cornwall feels like another country to me with its lush ferns, palm trees and brightly coloured camellias which flourish in the coastal gardens. No more so than at this time of year when most of the rest of the country is frozen and brown. Another bright winter’s day took us down to the Fal…
Shadowland
I am always drawn to the courtyard behind the King’s Room at Godolphin with the the fragile doors full of rusty nails, scarred wood and arched tops and where the light streams through the unglazed mullion windows. All photos were taken in colour at the Godolphin Gardens at the end of January with my Olympus…
Saturday Sketches #27
During the winter I take a break from the Six on Saturday meme as there is not much to record in my garden over the next few months (Plus it is too wet and cold to go out there). Instead I shall be posting photos that have been taken on my phone and edited with…
Cornish beaches: Marazion
Marazion beach is about a mile long beginning in front of the village of the same name and stretching around Mount’s Bay to the Station House pub then continuing for another two miles into Longrock and Eastern Green. The railway into Penzance runs alongside the sea from this point. The beach itself is never very…
Almost a Winter’s Tale
Strictly speaking not quite winter as this was on 30 November, but it felt wintry in the cold, but fortunately sunny day. A visit to our local town Penzance was an excuse to go out for lunch. We were lucky enough to find free parking along the promenade, a rare event. On arriving at the…
Cornish Beaches: Praa Sands
Praa (pronounced pray) Sands is a mile-long, south-west-facing beach on the eastern edge of Mounts Bay, Cornwall, approximately 7 miles from Penzance and 5 miles from Helston. I holidayed there in a caravan park with three of my four children back in 1991. It now appears to be the site of luxury lodges. Despite only…
The Old Coach Road
Becky (the Queen of Squares) is dipping her toes back into blogging this month and encouraging us to get outside and take a few steps each day during November to help survive those endless grey days. And to share a photo or two while we are at it. Square of course. This week I am…
Cornwall in Colours 