#lamorna cornwall

[autumncottageattic]

margaretabbs

Lamorna is a village, valley and cove in west Cornwall, England, UK

[vintagepromotions]

'Everywhere you go - you can be sure of Shell'

Poster advertising British oil and gas company, Shell, featuring a landscape of the Lamorna coastline (c. 1930). Artwork by John Armstrong.

[s38s73r]

Down to Lamorna Cove, Cornwall /Kernow

[stevietheghostie]

quick sketch of Lamorna Cove from the summer

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[jbrasseul]

Chez Poldark

[thethirdromana]

Here's a fun thing that my husband and I spotted while driving to a friend's house a little while back: single-word English place names almost always have the emphasis on the first syllable. (Exceptions are generally 4+ syllables and/or have a cardinal direction as the first syllable, e.g. Southampton).

We spent most of the journey saying place names aloud and trying to find other exceptions. We couldn't think of any in the car, but the friend we were visiting thought of plenty: Portreath, Redruth, Polperro, Mevagissey, Illogan, Lamorna...

Cornwall might have been annexed by Anglo-Saxon kings in the 9th century, but its place names remain unconquered.

[worldsandemanations]

"The Serpentine Quarry, near Mullion, Cornwall" by Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869–1955).

[walkingthegr10-blog]

Lands End to Mousehole

I leave my walking poles in the toilet at Lands End

The sun is out and the going is (mostly) easy

Heather and gorse against Cornish blue

A beacon, pasty and swim at Porthgwara

First view of Porthcurno from the Minack Theatre, sadly inaccessible without a ticket

Through St Buryan, and later Lamorna

Thirteen miles later, Mousehole and a night in the grounds of Mousehole FC

I start the day by leaving my walking poles in the toilet at Lands End. By the time I clock they are missing I am half way to Porthcurno and going back is unthinkable.

The south coast of Cornwall is as lovely as the north, and apart from two or three monster climbs the going is easier. The gorse and heather are in flower, a crazy purple and yellow patchwork quilt against an azure sea.

Three hours in I stop for my first pasty and flat white of the walk, followed by a swim in the tiny but delightful Porthgwarra cove.

After that I crack on. The Kamut app tells me I average 2.2 miles an hour. Whatever, it takes me all day to cover the 13 or so miles to Mousehole, a welcome sight at the end of the day. Mousehole FC have made their grounds and facilities available to hikers. Yay. I’m tired. But all well.

[mothmiso]

Cornwall (2) by Drew Gray

Via Flickr:

(1) Porthcurno Beach, from the Minack (2) Merry Maidens of Boleigh, stone circle near Lamorna     

[smilingformoney]

I realized that since Abbie spent 4 years in the US, she could probably do an American accent pretty well 🤔

Maybe she’d come home and annoy her parents with it lol

I have been thinking lately about her accent, I don’t think she’ll have picked one up but she definitely picks up some words and a bit of a twang which absolutely pisses Snape off — there’s a moment in the next chapter where she refers to “Sophomore year” and he’s just like “what the fuck is a Sophomore”

also on the subject of accents generally:

Sephy has a southern accent with a rough edge to it. Although she’s from the north like Snape, it’s a posher area and her adoptive parents are originally from the south so she picked up their accents

Abbie is fairly well-spoken as she grew up around Sephy’s accent, but growing up in London she does have a bit of a London accent which is more pronounced when she sings (I kind of imagine her to sound like Kate Nash)

As a Black Country girl, I naturally want Snape to be from around here, but I also love the idea of him having a Yorkshire accent growing up. Either way, he hates his “common” accent so when he’s at Hogwarts he has Lucius teach him how to speak “properly”, and so he ends up with the almost forced formal speech we know and love today.

I’ve established that Sephy is not from Cokeworth but she is from somewhere close enough that both places share the same hospital, and close enough that Eileen can get to the church in Sephy’s village on a Sunday. If he’s from the Black Country, I’d say perhaps he’s from the Telford or Wolverhampton area and she’s from Shrewsbury. Telford and Wolverhampton (my home town!) are both steeped in industrial history so it would make absolute sense for Cokeworth to be around there.

Whereas if they’re from further north, I don’t know the geography as much but I’m sure @sevsnapes has some better idea as our resident northerner

Also, on a related note, their new cottage is in a remote area on the south coast of Cornwall, the nearest muggle town being Lamorna

[auroraborealis22]

Morning at Lamorna Cove, Cornwall Samuel John Lamorna Birch (1869–1955)

[autumnrose11]

For the third time, I'm reading Summer in February, by Jonathan Smith. It's one of my favourite novels, and ... what's so special about it is that it's based on a true story.

It's Cornwall, 1913 ... in the midst of a bohemian artists' community in Lamorna. There's AJ Munnings, a brash, striking artist; blind in one eye, always the life of the party ... an artist far ahead of his time. There's Gilbert Evans, a shy, gentlemanly land agent, best friends with AJ. And into this picturesque seaside town of Lamorna walks beautiful, ethereal, enigmatic Florence Carter-Wood, come to study art in Cornwall.

What follows is predictable, and yet somehow it's so intriguing and devastating ... both men fall in love with her, and it tears their friendship apart. Florence is torn between someone she knows is right for her, who loves her so sincerely and deeply, and yet she can't help but fall for AJ's dazzling charm, his glamour. Essentially, it's a story about a young woman who made all the wrong choices, and the consequences that follow are tragic and heartbreaking.

It's completely and utterly worth the read, even if the story crushes you ... it's honestly mind-blowing to imagine that all of it really happened in that beautiful part of Lamorna. I'll probably watch the film again tonight (starring Dan Stevens as Gilbert .... adding to the long list of reasons I love it :D).

[s38s73r]

Lamorna village, Cornwall /Kernow

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