Tuesday 10 March 2015

Poldark: the place-spotting game

Ros and Verity on the cliffs above Treyarnon Bay, with Trevose Head in the
background - complete with lighthouse, built some 60 years after Poldark's
time!  Filming an 18th century story in modern-day Cornwall can't be easy.
The BBC's drama series Poldark had it's first airing on Sunday and promises to be compulsive viewing in the Angie household. I especially like the new Ros Poldark (Aiden Turner) – a worthy successor to Robin Ellis. Little Demelza may take some getting used to, though, after her fiery portrayal by Angharad Rees in the 1970's programmes.


My own photo of Trevose Head, taken from a further down the coast.   
Beneath that rainbow is the former Coastguard lookout, where I spent many
contented hours peering out to sea, coordinating rescues and catching up on
 my Open University homework.
Tattoed Mummy has pipped me to the post with her own Poldark game, which we fully intend to play next Sunday... with a bottle of wine (of course) and probably a plate or two of nibbles for good measure 

My own game promises to be somewhat less exciting and demands local knowledge.  Yes, it's the Cornwall Place-Spotting Game. The last time I played this was a couple of years ago, whilst watching repeats of Wycliffe. Before that, Lord Peter Wimsey could be observed sleuthing around St Mawgan, Holywell and Polly Joke – places very near where I used to live.

Here are some more places that I often visited when I lived in Cornwall...   


The Longships, off Land's End.  They just might have been building the first
Longships Lighthouse when Elizabeth stood there, but not that one.

But hey!.. it's a lovely picture.

The Longships, photographed from a little nearer Land's End


I like this cleverly constructed shot of Botallack, with the smoking
chimney, pithead gear and pristine mine buildings.


Botallack as it is now, featuring the roofless buildings of Crowns Mine

Charlestown Harbour.  I remember when this was a working harbour, used
for the export of china clay, but sadly I never photographed it.