Gunwalloe - Church Cove
View across Church Cove in Gunwalloe at the base of the Lizard Peninsula.
The church is St Winwalloe with it's distinctively seperate bell tower and surrounding Tamarisk hedge....
newlyn house
Wonderfully painted frontage....
rogers tower
A folly built 18th C, for Mr Rogers, a local landowner....
Clearly they should have involved Cornwall.
There's a wealth of imagination and creativity here, and there would probably have been hundreds of submissions at no cost.
..Then the choice could have been by public vote.
Some people would still have been grumpy, but at least we could say "Cornwall decided"...but I suppose their success in ignoring public opinion over whether we should have a Unitary Authority, and the success in ignoring how many councillors the people prefer, an element in "County Hall" were carried away with the euphoria of their successes and and just decided to carry on their sweet autocratic way.
I would like to think that, when the authorities DO deign to have an election in Cornwall, that the electorate 'teach them a lesson', but sadly I suspect that all transgressions will be forgotten, and the same people will vote as they usually do, and return the usual suspects to their seats in the chamber.
"THE controversial logo for Cornwall's new unitary council came under renewed criticism at the weekend as hundreds gathered to celebrate the county's rich culture.
The public attack came from Vanessa Beeman, the Grand Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, who scathingly described the logo as a "St Piran's flag on a funeral pyre" and said it left Cornish people feeling "stripped of identity and culture".
She spoke out to an audience of hundreds of bards and special guests at the annual Gorsedd celebrations at Looe, saying the campaign against the logo was gathering apace even outside the county.
She said: "Many of the Cornish folk from outside Cornwall have supported the campaign to oppose the new logo for Cornwall Council, which has nothing about it to say Cornish identity and culture to the outside world. It has been altered slightly, but as one bard put it, 'it now looks as if St Piran's flag is being burned on a funeral pyre'. Supporters of the logo say there are plenty who like it but what they are not taking into account is the difference in the depth of feeling those against the new logo feel stripped of identity and culture."
The original "tartan and flame" logo was unveiled in June as the symbol of the new "super" Cornwall Council but was immediately criticised for its appearance and cost.
How come that Tony Piper has only now been made a Bard? He should have been offered this years ago, as anyone who knows of his dedication to Cornwall over years would, I'm sure, agree.
This is one of the things that is wrong with the Gorsedd. I remember, back in the 80s, recommending Tony Blackman for his huge efforts to get Cornish Studies into schools (I still have "Cornish Studies for Schools" on my shelves.) The Gorsedd rejected him but, the same year, Barded someone from continental Europe who'd never been to Cornwall but who had passed a Kesva exam. At the time, many of us were saying that they'll Bard anyone as long as they're not Cornish. That was the same year in which a prominent member of the Gorsedd Council (a Londoner) engineered the overthrow of Grand Bard Hugh Miners.
(I will have to add that the Gorsedd did eventually see sense and made Tony a Bard - but that was years later).
I think the point that's being missed here is that CCC is not pushing for the new logo for a fresh start, but purely to remove the crest and to further dilute our identity and to assimilate us into England! The same motive was behind the recent bus pass debacle.
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Where there's a Negative - there's always a Positive. You just have to find it.
I've heard so many different accounts of how the Ayatollah Hughmeini (alias Deb Toll Yn Y Ben) failed to persuade the other bards to give him a second term of office, that I've given up counting. Is this one of the current stories, or is it a new one?
I like the new logo, and the fact the county crest is not being changed is good.
There seems to be confusion between a logo and a crest.
The logo needed to be updated to drag the county into the 21st century!!
I think the developers are coping quite well without the need for a new logo.
By county I take it you mean the administration, as the territory is a Duchy? That indeed needs dragging back into the 19th Century (1858) and the 14th Century, 16/17th March 1337.
Then once they've been cleansed of their historical/constitutional illusions, they could glide the County of Cornwall - which sits legally and constitutionally within the Duchy of Cornwall - into a bright and prosperous future as an independent Crown dependency OUTSIDE of, and not PART of, England.
Treverbic, which part of the inalienable (as in can never be altered) Duchy of Cornwall Charters do you have a problem understanding?
Do you accept that the Foreshore dispute was between the Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall?
Do you accept that the Foreshore dispute ended with the Crown of England conceding that the Duchy of Cornwall was not part of England, otherwise it would have been able to claim submarine mineral rights without question or the need for a trial at bar?
Or are you just dropping your weekly 'deposits' as usual, with no balls for an honest debate centered around the known truth about Cornwall?
Review urged over toll rise plans
Councillors in Cornwall want plans for a 50% increase in toll charges to cross the River Tamar to be reviewed.
Safety DVD helps migrant workers
A safety DVD aimed at helping migrant workers in Cornwall settle into life in the county is released.
Sex case teacher 'compassionate'
A former outdoor pursuits instructor accused of abusing children tells a court he dealt with pupils compassionately.
Crews in tumble dryer fire rescue
One person is rescued from a four-storey building in Cornwall after a fire broke out because of a tumble dryer.
Cat survives sealed box tomb ordeal
A cat is found alive despite being dumped in a plastic box sealed shut with parcel tape in Cornwall.
MK CALL ON SW RDA TO SUPPORT SOUTH CROFTY PLAN
Members of the Camborne and Redruth constituency party of Mebyon Kernow have called on both the South West Regional Development Agency (RDA) and the Urban Regeneration Company (URC) for the area to drop any opposition to the current re-opening of South Crofty Mine. The MK members want statements issued in support of the mine.
REJECTION OF PRISON TRANSFER REQUEST MEAN-SPIRITED
Following a specious and mean-spirited decision an Irish prisoner in England has had his request for a transfer to a prison in Ireland been rejected once again, for the fifth time.
BREIZH: LEAGUE GS MEETS UN CLIMSAT DIRECTOR
The Director of the new United Nations CLIMSAT centre in Brest, Breizh (Brittany) said on the weekend that the future of the Breton environment lay in the autonomy of Brittany.
Graham.
