Secrets from beyond the River Tamar

Secrets from beyond the River Tamar

Cornwall’s hall of fame embraces clotted cream to surf, spectacular scenery and a tin-mining history which has bequeathed a legacy of lonely, long defunct engine houses hauntingly scattered across its landscape.  Historian Dave Moss looks back at a little...

45 years and accounting

The only qualification you need to become an effective PR operative is to have been to agricultural college to be trained as a sheep dog as you spend most of your time pointing journalists in one direction or another –

The day it all began

160 years ago next Sunday was the birth of a man who forever changed the automotive world and whose unexpected death would be fore-ever shrouded in mystery with state, political or business assasination suspected, writes Dave Moss –

Was it really 50 years ago?

Was it really 50 years ago?

As we leave 2017 behind, two cars launched 50 years ago in 1967 were unique failures – with much money spent – and little to show, says Dave Moss in the first of two pieces –

Memories buzzing at Monmouth meeting

Memories buzzing at Monmouth meeting

A display of original Minis assembled by a Lower Wye Valley motor club proved a big draw at a recent county event at Monmouth. There were other interesting classics on show but the clutch of iconic Minis attracted most attention, probably because many people could...