Last night, I was watching Rick Steves on PBS, doing a show about visiting Cornwall. Lots of interesting stuff about tin mining,  but one thing thing that caught my attention was him visiting the fishing village of Mousehole! Doesn't seem to be any connection with Mousehole Forge in Sheffield (home of the greatest anvils ever made), but fun nonetheless. One interesting point: in the local dialect, "Mousehole" seems to be pronounced "MOW-zuhl".

yup. i just finished reading a novel that was staged in and around the cornish tin mines. cool place.

I was in Mousehole not so long ago, nice area with some stunning coastline just up the road. I took this picture on the shoreline below the hotel we stayed in, it's looking out over to Mousehole harbour. Also some heavy duty chain link in the harbour too that I liked the various stages of weathering on.

Another tidbit: Agatha Christie, who was very fond of Cornwall, sets the action of “The Bloodstained Pavement” (one of her Miss Marple short stories) in the fictional Cornish fishing village of “Rathole”!

Hmmmm. Unless you mean a mouse would be a tidbit for a rat I don't see a relation or does an anvil play a part in the story?

Thanks John that was a good stretching exercise on a chilly afternoon. I've never been much of a fan but I might check out Bloodstained Pavement. So long as it isn't in a forensic sense.

Frosty The Lucky.

 

Go back to the top post, Frosty. The thread is about the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole, not the anvils. 

So it is. I was having a little fun with your post and didn't check the data. My bad.

Frosty The Lucky.