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Published: November 3rd 2012
Our first stop for the day was Prima Bakery for more pasties! This time John tried a beef and stilton - excellent!
One of the reasons we had decided to visit Cornwall was because the trip was in honour of John's pending 50th birthday and it seemed appropriate to visit the land of his forebears (well at least some of them). We are really only half-hearted genealogists but we felt a visit to the Cornwall Family History Society in Truro (administative capital of Cornwall) would be worthwhile. It was - they have an amazing array of resources as well as extremely helpful volunteer staff. Sadly, John's hopes of finding some pirates in the family tree were dashed! They seem to have just been all tin miners!
As it was yet another wet day Ali decided it was high time she bought herself some wellingtons (gumboots!) Consequently she was very happy traipsing about in the rain on the beach at St Agnes. We had fun exploring a huge cave that opens out on to the beach - it was easy to imagine it being used by pirates! St Agnes has been associated with tin mining since the Bronze Age and
The old Coinage Hall, Truro
The Coinage Hall goes back to the time when Truro was a Stannary Town. It was where smelted tin was assayed before being exported. some of John's ancestors were born there.
We spent quite a bit of time driving around the countryside checking out other spots where a few more of his rellies lived, worked and died. It was pretty hard finding actual houses where they lived but we did find the site of the Wheal Plenty Mine where they had worked. In the gloom it looked like there was some overgrown ruins there but it was hard to tell.
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