Category Archives: Features

Torpoint – An 18th Century New Town

by Tom Bowden Most Cornishmen will recognise Torpoint as that Cornish town on the banks of the River Tamar where you wait for the ferry before tasting the pleasures of…

J. & T. Bowden: Boat Builders of Porthleven

Tom Bowden talks about his great-grandfather’s Porthleven boat building business, an emigration to Australia and a reunion in 1989.

Memories: Charles Causley CBE

Tom Bowden reflects on meeting Cornish poet Charles Causley CBE, and one of his fans, actor and TV presenter Leslie Crowther

16th International Gathering of Cornish Cousins in North America

The next Gathering of Cornish Cousins in North Americawill take place from 10th—14th August 2011 in Mineral Point, Wisconsin, USA

What happened to Annie and Mary Bowden?

Tom Bowden tells the story of two of his great aunts, Annie and Mary Bowden, who emigrated from Cornwall to Australia in 1881

Kernewek Lowender 20 years ago

Tom Bowden takes us down memory lane to the Kernewek Lowender of 1989

Kernewek Lowender – the World’s Largest Cornish Festival

38 years of exploring the Cornish heritage on the North Yorke Peninsular in Australia will next be celebrated at the 20th Kernewek Lowender in May 2011

St Piran’s Day and 35 year Lunch for Cornish in NSW

An account of this year’s Perrantide in New South Wales