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Goldsmith’s Folly
How Hugh Goldsmith put the Logan Rock back on its pivot #Treen #Cornwall
In the early evening of April 8, 1824, Treen’s Logan Rock was dislodged from its pivot by Hugh Goldsmith and the crew of the HMS Nimble, dropping several feet on to a ledge. Once news of Goldsmith’s act of folly reached Penzance, it roused the sort of righteous indignation that only the strict application of Law 20.1.2 in cricket can today. Local worthy, Sir Richard Vyvyan of Trelowarren, vowed…
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#Dr William Borlase#Goldsmith’s Deserted Village#HMS Nimble#Hugh Goldsmith#Land’s End#Men Omborth#Shrubshall#Sir Richard Vyvyan#Treen
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Did you make our gallery? GCSE results day across south Bucks through the years
Dr Challoner's, Sir William Borlase's Grammar School ad Beaconsfield High were among the best performing schools in south Bucks last year ... http://ift.tt/2x6A7Ek
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Logan Rocks
Hugo Goldsmith and the Logan Rock near #Treen #Cornwall
Men Omborth, Cornish for balanced stone, sits about thirty metres above the sea on top of the Teryn Dinas cliffs at Treen in the far west of Cornwall, about three miles or so from Land’s End. Known as a Logan or logging stone from the Cornish word “logging” meaning rocking, it is one of several pieces of detached rock to be found in the county that are poised so finely on their base that they…
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#Caractacus#Dr William Borlase#HMS Nimble#Hugh Goldsmith#Land’s End#Logan Rocks#Men Omborth#The Trove#Treen#William Mason
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