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[edit] Post Office Packet Service

For other uses of the word Packet see Packet'

[edit] Origin

Packet can mean a small parcel but, originally meant a parcel of important correspondence or valuable items, for urgent delivery [1].

Many states, civilisations and organisations have set up Mail systems for high value goods, especially confidential correspondence and bullion. The combative and imperialist states of modern Europe developed mail systems for overseas transport of Packets. In times of war, regular shipments ran the gauntlet of pirates and privateers.

[edit] British packet service

The British Government, being insular, had a particular need for seaborne communications, working to a regular secure timetable. The Packet Service run by the UK General Post Office, from Tudor times until 1823, using small, fast, lightly armed ships. Routes included:

Europe, via Calais, the Hook of Holland, Heligoland
North, Central and South America and the Caribbean Islands,
Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, Italy, Greece, Egypt.

The Stations from which the packet ships departed were: Dover, Harwich, Yarmouth, Falmouth, Plymouth, Milford Haven and Holyhead.

The Falmouth Station is the subject of several studies: Arthur Norway (1895)[2] Miss Susan Gay (1903) [3]and Tony Pawlyn (2003)[4]

Eventually, however, commercial steam liners began to work regular international schedules and received contracts from Governments to carry mail, as well as passengers and high-value cargo. In 1810, there was a mutiny, over pay level and previously authorised trading by sailors, now called smuggling. In punishment of the town the Packet Station was briefly and unsuccessfully moved to Plymouth. In 1823, the administration of the Packet Service was given to the Admiralty. In 1843, Falmouth merchantes persuaded H.M. Government not to move the Packet Station to Southampton, now served by a railway[5]. In 1850, the Packet Service run by the British state was disbanded and replaced by contracts with companies running other regularly timetabled services. Falmouth ceased to be a Packet Station.

Ships with the contract to carry mail were designated Royal Mail Ship.

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Packet came mean a regularly scheduled ship, carrying passengers, as in Packet trade, whether or not official Post-Office mail was carried.

[edit] References

<<RefList>> Sources:

  • Arthur H Norway (1895)The Post-Office Packet service: between the years 1793 and 1815, complied from records, chiefly official London, Macmillan.
An ancestor of Arthur Norway was a Packet Ship Captain. He tells his glorious tale pp255,256,262,263. The book is mostly descriptions of noable encounters between packet-ships and the enemy (Mostly French, Spanish and American). He gives a valuable insight into naval views in the War of 1812.
  • Gay, Susan Elizabeth (1903). Old Falmouth: the story of the town from the days of the Killigrews to the earliest part of the 19th century. 14 Bishopsgate Street Without, London EC: Headley Brothers.
Miss Susan Gay's grandfather was the Post-office's Agent in Falmouth.

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[edit] Garry Tregidga

Garry Harcourt Tregidga

ICS website, accessed 20 August 2007 Garry Tregidga undertook both his MPhil and PhD degrees with the University of Exeter. He was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in October 1997 and lives in his native mid-Cornwall. He has published a wide range of articles on Cornish themes and is the author of The Liberal Party in South West Britain since 1918: Political Decline, Dormancy and Rebirth (2000) and a co-author of Mebyon Kernow and Cornish Nationalism (2003).

In 1998 he founded the Cornish History Network, a research forum based at the Institute[6]. Two years later his growing interest in the potential of oral history and cultural memory led to the creation of the Cornish Audio Visual Archive (CAVA) for the study and documentation of the region’s oral and visual culture. In 2002 he was awarded £172,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other funding sources for the development of Cornish Braids, a two-year fieldwork programme at the Institute that seeks to create a multigenerational profile of Cornish life in the twentieth century. The work of CAVA has recently been extended into the areas of project analysis and commercial development through Garry’s successful application for funding from the European Social Fund.

[edit] CAVA

The Cornish Audio-Visual Archive (CAVA) was created in 2000 for the study and documentation of the oral and visual culture of Cornwall. It advocates an innovative and interdisciplinary approach towards interpreting the events of the past and present that harnesses the multimedia power of oral history, cultural memory, sociolinguistics, ethnomusicology, film representations, photographic studies and landscape narrative. CAVA seeks to build on the pioneering work of the Cornish Oral History Forum in the late 1990s and the Cornish Film and Video Archive a decade earlier. CAVA is keen to encourage wider participation in the research and recording process through a long-term programme of educational and cultural initiatives.

[edit] Bard

Dr Garry TREGIDGA (Bugle, St Austell) For services to Cornish history Rag gonys dhe ystory Kernewek Map Rosvean - Son of Rosevean

Based at the Institute of Cornish Studies and led by Dr Garry Tregidga, the Institute’s Assistant Director, the CAVA initiative is being developed in partnership with the College of St Mark & St John, Cornwall Centre, Cornwall Heritage Trust, Cornwall Record Office and the National Trust. This network of educational establishments, resource providers and heritage organisations is further strengthened through the active involvement of associated groups and individuals throughout Cornwall. CAVA is also keen to develop wider links with cultural, educational and archival institutions in other parts of the world, particularly those with an interest in the oral and visual dimension to regional cultures and identities.

  • Thesis (1991): Title The Liberal Party in Cornwall, 1918-1939. University of Exeter.


[edit] Publications

  • Map Kenwyn : the life and times of Cecil Beer / by Garry Tregidga and Treve Crago; Cornwall : Gorseth Kernow, 2000. ISBN 190366800x
  • The Liberal Party in South-West Britain since 1918 : political decline, dormancy and rebirth / Garry Tregidga; Exeter : University of Exeter Press, 2000. ISBN 085989679x
  • Mebyon Kernow and Cornish nationalism / Bernard Deacon, Dick Cole and Garry Tregidga; Cardiff : Welsh Academic Press, 2003. ISBN 1860570755
  • Killerton, Camborne and Westminster : the political correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland, 1910-29 / edited by Garry Tregidga (Series: Devon and Cornwall Record Society ; volume 48); Exeter : Devon and Cornwall Record Society, 2006. ISBN 0901853488

[edit] Booklist

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  • Rowe, John (1993). Cornwall in the age of the Industrial Revolution (2nd enlarged edition. First published 1953). St. Austell: Cornish Hillside Publcations. ISBN 0-9519419-2-5. 

[edit] Historians and histories of Falmouth, Cornwall

  • Gay, Susan Elizabeth (1903). Old Falmouth: the story of the town from the days of the Killigrews to the earliest part of the 19th century. 14 Bishopsgate Street Without, London EC: Headley Brothers. 

[edit] Proposed [[Cornish Place-names]] article

Cornish Place-names

It is proposed to start a WP article to link place-name articles such as Fore Street, Churchtown, Playing Place, High Cross . . . , for names that are found more frequently in Cornwall than elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

The article should not pretend to explain the meaning or etymology of Cornish Place-names derived from the Celtic Cornish language (That is a separate and more complex article, I think). However it is hoped to point to reliable resources for understanding the toponymic nature of Cornwall. One of these is Cornovia: An Index to the Historical Place Names of Cornwall at http://cornovia.org.uk/ihpnc/c.html (A Cornish Source-Book website).

The introduction on this site includes some caveats on previous writers and a select list of place-name elements. Another source is: Padel, O J (1988) A Popular Dictionary of Cornish Place-Names; Alison Hodge -now out-of-print but present in many branches of Cornwall Public Libraries, according to the OPAC: http://library.cornwall.gov.uk/TalisPrism/

It would be good if, in addition to List of Cornish saints there was a list of Saints who gave their names to places (or vice versa).

[edit] Possible Categories:

{{Cornwall-geo-stub}} [[Category:Geography of Cornwall]] [[Category:Place names]] [[Category:British toponymy]] [[Category:[[Cornish Place-names]]

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Common Place-names in Cornwall This article lists for names that are found more frequently in Cornwall than elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

It does not attempt to explain the pronunciation, meaning or etymology of Cornish Place-names derived from the Celtic Cornish language [7]

[edit] List of common place-names

  • Fore Street - )ver 70 in Cornwall, around 25 in Devon and around 20 in the rest of the world.
  • Churchtown and Chrurchtown, Cornwall
  • High Cross a place or a street
  • Playing Place a performance space, as at St. Just in Penwith. The open-air theatre at Playing Place near Truro is lost, but the name remains.

[edit] Place-names in Cornwall and the Scilly Isles, derived from Celtic "Saints" and other more canonical Saints

[edit] See also


{{Cornwall-geo-stub}} [[Category:Geography of Cornwall]] [[Category:Place names]] [[Category:British toponymy]] [[Category:[[Cornish Place-names]]

[edit] Constantine Heritage Centre

Constantine Heritage Centre is a small museum and local history outreach project, based in Constantine, Kerrier, Cornwall[8].

The Constantine History Society, notably, Ronnie Rashleigh and Gerald Trethowan, had collected a large quantity of potential museum objects. A Heritage Lottery Fund [9] grant enabled the construction of an annexe to the former Methodist Chapel, in Fore Street. It is now known as "The Tolmen" and run as a community and arts centre. The Centre opened in June 2005.

A dedicated team of volunteers assembled display equipment, objects and funding to present the local history of the village to its community and schoolchildren, with advice from the Royal Cornwall Museum.

The themes currently on display are:

  • "Between a rock and a hard place" (Granite quarrying),
  • "Food for though" (Agriculture and what we ate),
  • "Butcher, baker and shoemaker" (Trades in old Constantine),
  • "Game, set and match" (Sport and games in Constantine)

and

    • ???School ().

The Heritage Centre welcomes visits from local schools and arranges events for adults, every few months.

[edit] Gallery

AA Wall-Plaque, used for stone-throwing practice by local lads.

Band of Hope Banner.

Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Banner.

Honour Boards from Ponjeravah School.

Display on "Food for thought".
==References==
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