The Newlyn Fish Festival The Newlyn Fish festival hosts a Cooking demonstration all day inside the market along with a large range of food stalls selling fish produce. The Festival is organised in the aid of the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen which provides care, compassion and support to working, retired and disabled […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Screen-Shot-2021-09-09-at-12.19.10-550×340.png” alt_image=”Laid up Shipping Falmouth ” video_title=”Laid up Shipping Falmouth Cornwall” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWeV8UzpMfs”] Laid up Shipping Falmouth This is the second video clip of the laid up shipping in the river Fal. The slump in cargoes and rates has meant that many shipowners have been forced to lay up vessels on a care and maintenance […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Screen-Shot-2021-09-19-at-12.21.54-550×370.jpg” alt_image=”Surfing Competition St Agnes” video_title=”Surfing Competition St Agnes” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fRBrb6p_Ao”] Surfing St Agnes St Agnes was historically a centre of the tin and copper mining activity in Cornwall. However, like many small Cornish coastal villages tourism is the main industry. St Agnes and the nearby Chapel Porth beach are very popular surfing beaches. […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/video-of-the-helston-flora-day-d.jpg” alt_image=”Helston Floral Day Dance” video_title=”Video of the Helston Floral Dance” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzNfTIKwK90″] Helston Floral Dance Video Helston, 8 May 2008. This is the principal dance of the day and features the men in their top hats and their lady partners in elegant dresses and headgear. Flora Day is a Spring festival that celebrates winters […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2021-09-10-at-15.51.25-550×363.png” alt_image=”Looe Island” video_title=”St George’s Island Looe Cornwall” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG8WM8C6Obw”] Looe Island An exploration of Looe Island ( St Georges Island) Cornwall. The island lies just off the coast at Looe in South East Cornwall. The film includes footage of travelling to the Island (August 2008), the archaeology site of the old Lammana Chapel […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bodmin-wenford-railway-spring-st-960×540.jpg” alt_image=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bodmin-wenford-railway-spring-st-960×540.jpg” video_title=”Bodmin Wenford Railway Spring Steam” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b936C8PF_M”] Bodmin Wenford Railway Spring Steam Spectacular Video taken during one of the railways special days this time the Bodmin Wenford Railway Spring Steam Spectacular. The railway gas regular special days throughout the year including the ever-popular “Santa by Steam” you can be an engine driver for […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/trevithick-day-camborne1-500×281.jpg” alt_image=”Trevithick Day Camborne” video_title=”Trevithick Day Camborne” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSLLN6p16NQ?”] Trevithick Day Camborne An annual event ,Trevithick Day Camborne celebrates the heritage and mining heritage of the area, with the focus on Richard Trevithick, the pioneer of high pressure steam power. This takes the form of a community festival of free entertainment in the main streets […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/Screen-Shot-2021-09-02-at-13.59.42-550×307.png” alt_image=”Tevithick Day Camborne Cornwall” video_title=”Tevithick Day” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUCZYahy8yU”] Trevithick Day Camborne Trevithick Day Camborne: Richard Trevithick builder of the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive is celebrated by the people of Cornwall. The achievements of a brilliant Cornish engineer and inventor who most feel has never received the fame or recognition his pioneering […]
Continue reading[su_video_lightbox image_url=”https://www.visitcornwall.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/seals-at-godrevy-500×281.jpg” alt_image=”Seals at Godrevy” video_title=”Seals at Godrevy” video_url=”www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4o8bpXFBPc”] Seals at Godrevy There is a colony of resident seals at Godrevy. They can be seen quite often by those who walk the coastal path past the island in the surf or hauled out on the island rocks below the Godrevy Lighthouse. A seal is very […]
Continue readingThe Cornwall National Seal Sanctuary Gweek has its origins from an event in the winter of 1958 when Ken Jones found a baby seal washed up on the beach at St Agnes. The seal was only a few hours old. He took this baby seal back to the garden of his house near the beach. […]
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