Welcome to postcards from Cadgwith!

Your chance to get interactive with our website! Please share with us your stories and memories of living or holidaying in this beautiful place.

This is part of an ongoing community, living history project.  Funded by the Grade Ruan Community Trust.  To collect and exchange stories from the past and recent past and keep those stories alive. We would love it if you could share a story or memory of this beautiful community. If you live or are visiting the village Then please look out for a special Thespian post box located on the wall of the steamers house next door to the crab shop down in the centre of the cove.  You can post your real postcards in there and then check out this page for your postcard to appear! Or simply fill in the box below with your virtual postcard and once it has been verified it will also appear on this page. We will also keep informed with what the Thespians are up to next, you will receive our very own postcard from Cadgwith keeping you up to date with what is happening.

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We would love to hear from you!

Send us your Cadgwith experiences, have you seen any of our productions which you would like to comment on? All correspondence will moderated by us and then posted on this page.

A Few Postcards and Reminiscences

Postcards

Had a good journey, the weather is being kind to us.  Climbed the local cliffs and saw the super views of the coast. Love to All x

Having a fantastic time here in this picturesque village.  Good weather, great food, lovely locals with lots of yarns.  Plenty of beer, singing and good fishing. Love x

Dear Ella and Cara, We are eating lots of ice cream and pasties.  Have walked miles along the coast and sat on Kennack Sands.  Lots of love Gramps and Grandma xx

Dear Tom, Scillies is beautiful, sand, sea, men and grub.  Caught up with friends, weather was wonderful, sunshine every day! Cheers xx

Postcards from local children

My  Cadgwith  memory is fishing at the cove with my friend, my friend’s dad and my dad. Andreas

 

 

My memory of Cadgwith Cove is that when we went searching for seaglass.  Shannon

 

 

 

My  Cadgwith memory is the Fishy Tales play that I was in on Cadgwith beach. Carrera

Reminiscences

• We used to swim all weather. I remember swimming with Eileen and a huge wave caught me and nearly took me into the drang!  Of course someone was watching and it had to be Mr Tamblin, he told my parents, and I was in trouble!

 

• Another time a circus came to Ruan Minor the usual clowns and trapeze artists. The next day Mr Hartley Tripp rigged up ropes on a tree and Ann his daughter and I pretended we were circus artists, we must have twisted our bodies every way you can think of, well the next day I could hardly move.

 

• Sundays were evenings to remember, after church the chapel boys used to come to us girls and we all used to crowd into a car belonging to Reggie and Tommy. The car had a boot that pulled down, so some of us used to sit in there and many times we had to stop and wait cos one of them had fallen off!

 

• I also remember climbing Ruan Major church, a ban was put on climbing it after a while as it began to crumble badly.

 

• Mr Richards was our School teacher at Ruan Minor School but he was always known as Pop Richards. He often got side tracked and would go off and tell us wonderful stories of places that he had been.  Then all of a sudden he would say “Now let’s get back to what this lesson is really about”.

 

• The girls would have needlework classes and the boys would go off to the school garden, quite often the girls could go to. There was one particular day, we had to learn a poem, and if we remembered it we could go gardening, well Eileen and Ann chose a poem with 4 lines, needless to say they didn’t get to go gardening!.

 

• At Christmas time we put on the most beautiful pantomimes. I was the queen of hearts.

 

• Mr and Mrs Harper were out favourite Vicar.  He loved children and used to tell the bible stories so well he held every ones attention.  He lived in the beautifully kept vicarage and would let the children gather any of the apples that had fallen on the ground.  If there weren’t any on the ground he would shake the tree so a few apples would fall down!  Once a year he held a garden Fete it was always looked forward too.  We had the usual stalls of hoop la, bean bag thrown at a built up stack of tins to ne knocked down.  Many of the ladies knitted and baked cakes to sell.  Ruan School put on a show of gymnastics.  There were toffee apples and lucky dips.

 

• A film Company came to Cadgwith to make a film, most of it took place on The Todden. I remember as children we were put into groups A,B, and C, as they shouted out our group we had to run on screaming and a film actor dressed as a black witch jumped off the todden, it was called The Starfish, quite a highlight for Cadgwith!

 

• Another happy event was the christening of the Cadgwith Lifeboat, named The Guide of Dunkirk, every time the lifeboat went out it was the job of Mr Jimmer Jane with his grease pot, to grease the timbers she rolled down to sea.  A joke was played on him once, someone hid his pot of grease, he nearly went crazy!

 

• During the war lots of women pitched in and did their bit to help. Mum was one of them, by mending nets for the