Photo: Perran Tremewan
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Chapter 3
A Remarkable People
Uncover the secrets behind the remarkable people that have pioneered their own future on the Tin Coast.
Stored With Moth and Rust Destroy
Immerse yourself in the traditions created by the people who shaped the landscape long ago, and find out how those very traditions are being brought back to life today.
Discover a community bursting with arts and heritage; a place where cultural identity is revered, kept alive through generations of people knitted together by song, dance and celebration. A Cornish spirit that has withstood and will withstand the test of time, never forgotten, lost or destroyed.
❝ This is just such an amazing place because yes, it might be isolated and bleak in the winter, and you can be freezing and battered by the wind, but the culture and those things that happen so often actually for such a tiny place...at the end of the world, at the edge of the world here in Cornwall, is just so special. ❞
A short film, recorded in the heart of St Just in the Plen-an-Gwari, created in conversation with Mary Ann & Isobel Bloomfield, James Breslin and Richard Francis. Additional footage from Barbara Santi.
A podcast produced and presented by Karen Pirie exploring the cultural highlights of the Tin Coast.
The theme music was composed and performed by Penwith band Du Glas with excerpts from the Ordinalia by Vicky Abbot and Ben Sutcliffe.
More Stories from the Tin Coast...
Photo: Bethany Brown
Film interview
Chapter 10
Where Sea and Sky Collide
A place where people are born to and drawn to, find out why this coast has become home to artists, makers and more.
Photo: Perran Tremewan
Film interview
Chapter 12
Wild Skies
Embrace the wild skies of the west, where stormy weather battering the isolated outpost of the Cape Cornwall National Coastwatch station is just another day in the office.
Photo: Perran Tremewan
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Chapter 11
An Uncommon Place
Reflect on a landscape through the eyes of those who have lived it, those who have penned its story and those who still shape its cultural identity.
Photo: Perran Tremewan
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Chapter 8
An Astonishing History
A landscape once simultaneously ravaged by nature and industry, discover how the unique mining history of the Tin Coast has shaped the community that thrives here today.
Photo: Soundview Media
Film interview
Chapter 5
Thousands of Years of Letting the Cows Get Out
Hear from the farmers working in harmony with the historic landscape of the Tin Coast.
Photo: Bethany Brown
Film interview
Chapter 6
Crib or Croust? Here We Say Mossel
From farmer to fisherman, explore the Tin Coast through the power of words and culture.
Photo: Perran Tremewan
Film interview
Chapter 7
Deep in Time, Land and Spirit
Discover our rich cultural heritage which is so So SO much more than old buildings, we have an entire human history written into our landscape.
