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He once saw The Wombles perform live (mime to backing tracks) at the Plaza cinema in Truro for 50p. He demanded a refund when he discovered that Orinoco was actually the girl from next-door-but-one dressed in a Womble costume. The next band he saw "live" were the Angelic Upstarts at Demelza's in Penzance, but he was ejected for demanding to know whether Mensi was actually a Trehaverne maid in drag.
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[edit] Linking to the Cornwall Record Office Online Catalogue
Some advice regarding adding links to particular pages on the CRO Online Catalogue.
Please note that if you do a search for a particular place, person or catalogue on the database and then find one entry in particular that you wish to link to, the URL for that particular page may not permanently direct you to the entry in question. For instance a search for Roskear http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='roskear') brings up the index pages for all Roskear entries on the database. If, for instance, you have a particular interest in entry no 19 (at present GHW/13/3/7) http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=18&dsqSearch=((text)='roskear') (entry 1 is given as position 0 in the URL), and wish to link to it, then it is likely that other Roskear entries will, over time, be added and which appear above the entry in question, which may then become entry 20 or 21 etc. So, for these individual entry references, find the CRO catalogue reference number in question (in this case GHW/13/3/7) and do a new search for this in the RefNo field. This will bring up a results index page featuring only this one entry at http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo='GHW/13/3/7'). Click on the number to the left of the title and this will bring up the description page for this item http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=(RefNo='GHW/13/3/7'), and this URL should remain permanently valid.
The results page for a search on any particular word(s) or phrase e.g. for Wheal Lemon http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='wheal%20lemon'), can be linked to directly as when and if new entries containing the same word(s) or phrase are added to the database these will automatically be added to the results page. Likewise links to individual catalogues, e.g. for HB (Henderson Bull) http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo='HB') will also work in the same way.
To eliminate the entries for printed books which appear at the beginning of some search result pages (these entries comprise a title and nothing else) add ( before the word text and AND(RefNo='*')) to the end of the link. So the ordinary search for Camborne http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=((text)='camborne') will bring up several titles of books, whereas a search for Camborne with * in the RefNo field http://crocat.cornwall.gov.uk/dserve/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=Overview.tcl&dsqSearch=(((text)='camborne')AND(RefNo='*')) will eliminate these. The results of such searches do however take longer to load.
Please also note that the DD part of (older) catalogue references is no longer in use, e.g. DDP120 is P120, DDV is V etc.
[edit] Linking to the Access to Archives (A2A) Catalogue without it timing out
The A2A website uses timed sessions for all users. This means that any links made to pages found on the catalogue, though likely to be valid when first tested by those adding the link due to their session not having yet timing out, will, after a very short period of time (minutes), become invalid.
For instance, a search for Cornubie on A2A will bring up a page showing entries for 8 catalogues. The 5th of these is the Arundell, Tywardreath Priory Archive (ART) and this is the entry I want to link to. Clicking on the number at the right of the entry will bring up a summary entry for the document ART/1/22. For the full description you will need to click on 'Catalogue in Full' at the top of the page. These pages are often huge and entries can be difficult to find. A link to any of these pages will, shortly after being added, time out and will then become invalid.
To link to an individual catalogue entry from A2A you will need to go to The National Archives catalogue search page at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/searchthearchives/ and, rather than clicking on the featured A2A link, instead, type 'Cornubie', or your chosen phrase, name or word, into the search box at the top of the page. This will, at present, bring up a page of 16 entries (from A2A and from The National Archives' own catalogue) at the URL http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search/quick_search.aspx?search_text=cornubie&SearchButton.x=0&SearchButton.y=0. Near the bottom of the page is the entry for ART/1/22. Clicking on the link will bring up an individual page for the reference at http://www.a2a.org.uk/search/records.asp?cat=021-art&cid=1-4-3. This is something that is not possible to do on the A2A site proper and gives a much more attractive result than any regular A2A search would, even if they did not time out. These links should remain valid, though due to the database structure used by TNA it may not be possible to pre-format links (as is possible with the CRO catalogue) as the URL may not give much of an indication of the actual document reference (the catalogue here uses a tree structure and as ART/1/22 is the third item in the fourth sub-series of the first series of the ART catalogue it is given with 1-4-3 in the URL). The best way to do it is to find the actual page wanted and then to cut and paste the URL.
