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THE TOP HOUSE
The Lizard, Nr Helston Tel: 01326 290974 Open all year round Our lunch & evening menu has many home-made fish & vegetarian meals Children and dogs welcome Ample Parking Originally a farmhouse, “The Top House” has been a licensed hostelry for nearly 200 years, the last 50 years run by the Greenslade family. Part of the bar houses a fine collection of 19th century watercolours and antique prints of views of The Lizard and Kynance. There is an extensive collection of lifeboat and shipwreck artefacts and a miniature bottle collection. A selection of hot and cold meals is served lunchtimes and evenings throughout the year. In summer there is a small garden and in winter a welcoming fire burns. Large carpark.
Changes in our management: Peter Greenslade had asked us to consider replacing him as our President with someone who could give more time to keep involved with the day-to-day management of our society. Reluctantly, we agreed and wish to place on record our thanks to Peter for the contributions that he has made since our origins. His decision coincided with John Grierson’s resignation as Vice Chairman and Executive Committee member, due to onerous business commitments. John, however, agreed to our suggestion that his legal and business experience should continue to be available to us and he accepted the position as our President. Peter will be our first Vice President, in recognition of his past contributions. As required by our Constitution, at the first Committee meeting after the AGM Committee Members were democratically appointed into their positions of responsibility. David Richardson was appointed as Vice Chairman, in addition to his role as Secretary, and Peter and John’s decisions were confirmed. |
Photographic Competition results: Our 2002 Photographic Competition was the second year that we have run the event. All of the entries were displayed at the Annual General Meeting where they were judged by Jonathon Coudrille. As in 2001, the competition attracted a large number of entries in all of the topic categories and of particularly high standards. Jonathon acknowledged the difficulty of deciding the winners but his “thinking out loud” comments on every individual entry, covering photographic appeal and the technical aspects of exposure, focus, colour range, mood and, particularly, composition, were all interesting and entertaining to Members present. After long deliberation, he awarded First Prizes in the various categories to: A Lizard Peninsula landscape, fishing lakes at St Keverne: Dennis Carter Wildlife of the Lizard, butterflies on garden flowers: Avril Evens Plants of the Lizard, mushrooms at night by flash photography: Avril Evens A Lizard Peninsula interesting old building or ruin, joint winners: Avril Evens (Ruan Church) David Richardson (Poltesco Mill) (see front page)
A Lizard Peninsula eyesore, a farmyard view sadly too typical of the Lizard: Jane Grierson A Lizard Peninsula garden, two Labradors contemplating a fountain: David Richardson (see right above) Avril Evens won the Evens Cup for the most first place wins.
Committee members: Our new charitable status enables us to expand the range of our activities and we have many ideas that can be pursued. Insufficient Committee members hold us back, however. Some tasks are quite modest – an extra pair of hands to help with despatching Newsletters or helping with events etc. Please contact our Chairman or Secretary if you can help in any way. |
The winning entry in the ‘Gardens’ section
Evolution of the Historic Environment Service of Cornwall County Council:In the early 1970s archaeology was under increasing pressure from development and existing resources for rescue work were totally inadequate at both national and local level to cope with the pace of change. This was the time when Rescue–The British Archaeological Trust was formed to lobby for more resources and the Council for British Archaeology was in the forefront of helping to establish regional archaeological fora. In Cornwall, an archaeological service started in 1975. In the previous few years, the Department of the Environment Ancient Monuments Inspectorate (DOE) established thirteen Archaeological Advisory Committees (AAC) for England with one covering Scilly, Cornwall and Devon. The AAC encouraged the formation of county committees and, in February 1975, the Cornwall Committee for Rescue Archaeology (CCRA) was established as an independent organisation with charitable status, funded by the DOE and sponsored by the Cornwall Archaeological Society. In previous years, the Cornwall Archaeological Society and, before that, the West Cornwall Field Club and Lizard Field Club had carried out many important research and rescue excavations. Our subject is now the historic environment, a wider brief than 27 years ago. Prehistory and mediaeval studies were then our principal concerns and the Industrial Revolution and 20th century military sites, for example, were rarely if ever mentioned. Extract of an article by Nicholas Johnson in Newsletter No 24 of the Cornwall Heritage Trust |
