Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
Fifty Golden Years at Helleveor
Music
Post Office and Postmen
The Land Girls
Pasties and Saffron Cake
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
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CHANGING TIMES IN OLD ST IVES Vol 3
Reminiscences of everyday life in old St Ives with black and white illustrations.
Includes:
Fifty Golden Years at Helleveor
Music
Post Office and Postmen
The Land Girls
Pasties and Saffron Cake
AUTHOR Mary Quick
Mary Quick was born in St. Ives. She attended Penzance Grammar School for Girls and worked in the Post office there for 10 years before going to London and working 10 years for Barclays Bank Overseas. She returned home to marry her husband Daniel. She was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd at Roche Rock in 1992 and is Dialect Recorder for the St. Ives Old Cornwall Society. She draws on a fund of stories told to her by her family and her husband. She writes dialect stories regularly for the Cornishman and The St. Ives Times and Echo and has many awards from the Cornish Gorsedd.
PUBLISHED BY Mary Quick
22 x 30 cm 39 pages Combed and Bound A4