Public meeting - Save Falmouth Coastguard!

Add this date to your diary if you are able to make this meeting next month.

In the meantime, spread the word, check out the SOS Coastguard page and get all your contacts to sign the petition:

Be at Tremough Campus, Penryn for a 7.30 pm start on Wednesday 9th March and hear a presentation from the consultancy team charged with evaluating the future of the Coastguard service around the UK coast and in particular Falmouth Coastguard Station.




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To kipper (verb) - to kipper means to cure herring, salmon or any other variety of fish by salting and smoking the fish

BBC1-The OneShow - 2 minutes and 20 secs in:


Food critic Jay Rayner visits kipper man Steve Richardsonand his Smokehouse in Orford, Suffolk and tries to persuade him to kipper sardines and mackerel instead of herring - the fish that only became synonymous with kippering in the mid 1800s.


The sardine proves to be too small and dries out,the mackerel hits the spot but for kipper man Steve, tradition gets the better of him!


Origin of the word from Middle English kypre, from Old English cypera; akin to Old English coper or copper.

Seafood Cornwall Training - making way.

The latest four day navigation underway at Newlyn.

Seafood Cornwall Training's latest navigation course for under 10m skippers is in full swing. Details of this and more courses for fishermen in Cornwall are available from Seafood Cornwall Training - ask to speak to Sarah Crosbie for more information.

All the latest course dates are avialable here. 

Saturday morning around the town and down the quay.

Early signs of the winter nights drawing out.......

as the harbour daffs begin to show their heads.......

it's that time of year again........ 

and  the local shops have their own way of getting involved.......

'ma petite choux'.......

not forgetting the pastries.....

Stevenson's fish shop has taken a lead from chef Jamie Oliver........

or you can let someone else do the cooking up at the Red Lion........

lost something George?........

icing-up time for the biggest netter in Cornwall.......

net setters happy in their work.........

the Old Quay will be transformed on Painting Day......

when it will be full of traditional luggers for the benefit of anyone who wants to come and record the scene in oils, pencil, watercolour, pen and ink or photograph.......

let's hope that by then the less caring members of the dog owning community are hounded out of the harbour, or at least clear up after their canine companions........

Barry gets a hand to clean his gear........

while the twice-daily routine of recording which vessels are in port continues........

heading for home........

a pot of gold for someone.........

at half mast again.......

the early sun was another silver dawn.......

maybe the old Fisherman's Rest will get a new lease of life as the Old Quay is developed.......

Cape Cornwall gig rowers at full stretch........

plenty of live evening events coming up with the music of Roy Orbison........

or Cornish Lighthouses - entertainment for all tastes.

Newlyn Pier and Harbour Commissioners give a public presentation of their plans for the port.

Click on the image to hear the presentation introduced by Gilbert MacCabe, chairman of NPHC.

Newlyn Pier and Harbour Commissioners give a public presentation of their plans for the port in the near future. The event was hosted by the Cornishman newspaper at The Centre, Newlyn February 7th 2011.

Chips from a St Ives chippy.

Two Mousehole videos from the 1920s.

A Through the Gaps blog reader very kindly pointed us in the direction of these two short films from the 1920s looking at the tiny fishing village of Mousehole.


The films are part of the South West Film and Television archive - they are always keen to add material to their growing collection - contact them if you can help or would like more information. "We hold nearly 130,000 films and tapes, dating from the start of film making in the 1880's to the present day and covering every aspect of life in the South West of England.

We want as many people as possible to see and enjoy the unique moving images that we safeguard, and we work with a number of partner organisations to make this happen.

At the moment, the database of SWFTA's collection is only searchable in-house. If you are looking for films on a specific subject, date or place, please get in touch, and our staff will advise on availability. We are working towards providing this facility online in the future.

We can also provide advice about films and tapes that you own."

Files subsequently removed owing to © Copyright issues.