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Ann Boswell, better known as Granny Boswell, is one of Cornwall’s best known characters and an important figure for many in the gypsy community but who was the real woman who has inspired so much affection, so many stories and has even been depicted in one of the biggest TV shows of the past decade?!
Meet Granny BoswellOne of Cornwall’s best-known gypsies,
In September 1937 workmen digging the foundations of Truro’s new Telephone Exchange unearthed human bones. This macabre discovery in the heart of the city surprised everyone and would lead to rumours of a forgotten burial ground, while a curious carved head found nearby would give rise to tales of an ancient curse.
Why those bodies were buried where they were and wh...
“Max Barrett started life as the wild boy of Penzance and ended as the wild man of sculpting.” – Annie Gurton, The Independent, June 1997
If there is one thing I love it is discovering something hidden in plain sight! The people, places and objects that have been forgotten or overlooked. That is not to say that Max Barrett’s sculptures are hidden exactly, just tha...
A year or so ago an old Porthlevener asked me if I knew about the Moonstone. (I think that he might even have called it an asteroid at the time.) When I said I hadn’t he told me I couldn’t miss it, this rock that had supposedly fallen from space, if I went to cliffs outside the village at low tide. Of course I had to see it for myself and he was right, the rock really is unmi...
