Talland Bay looks forward to the quietest summer for
many years: Now the Talland Caravan & Camping Park
has closed for redevelopment as an upmarket holiday village of 42 permanent
houses, summer 2008 looks likely to be a quiet one in the bay. The developer
tells us that whilst the foundations of the houses will be laid during the
spring period, actual construction of the houses is not likely to start until
the autumn. So in the high season of July and August things should be pretty
quiet in the bay without the 6-700 folk who would normally have been staying
at the old site. Of course, many of those will still be wanting to get their
annual fix of the Talland Bay magic and may have found accommodation at one
of the nearby caravan and camping grounds. We look forward to the summer with
interest! (11 March 2008)
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Spring comes early to Talland Bay:
Pruning vines in a Cornish vineyard is normally a distinctly chilly winter
task, but this year an exceptionally sunny & mild period in early/mid
February with near perfect weather has made it a delight and it was a task
undertaken not a day too early as already the sap is beginning to flow in
my Talland vineyard - a month or so earlier than usual. Other signs of the
early spring have been magnolias bursting into blossom extremely early, the
smell of wild garlic in the hedgerows and the sight of butterflies flying
and sound of bumble-bees likewise and, on 13 Feb, the first sight & sound
of a skylark hovering over the hill above Talland - a most evocative glimpse
of spring and summer to come (though how a skylark gets to know the weather
is mild in Cornwall goodness knows - by watching a weather forecast on satellite
TV from its winter quarters in Africa perhaps?). The weather has even been
mild enough to tempt your webmaster into the sea, twice, though very briefly.
The last few days have not been so mild and today (Sunday 17 Feb) started
with a sharp and white frost but daytime was wall to wall sun and delightfully
warm in the sun in sheltered spots, but exposed to the cold east wind it was
raw and bitter and once the sun was down there was no doubt, sadly, that it
is only February. Maybe that skylark will have had second thoughts and booked
a passage back south?
Bob
Tarr, webmaster, www.talland.org, 17 Feb 2008
| Chelsea tractor madness reaches Talland Bay |
 As
the owner of a Land Rover myself I don't believe that all 4x4 owners
are terminally deranged - but when you see 2.5 tonnes of Land Rover
Discovery parked at a crazy angle on top of the Smuggler's Cottage plastic
septic tank - and realise that in order to park in this unlikely spot
the driver had to climb over some large rocks capable of doing serious
and expensive damage to said vehicle - then you do begin to see why
some people get a bit worked up about Chelsea tractors |
| Photos & story: 25 August 2007 (Copyright www.talland.org 2007) |
(16 August) - see Guest Book entry for 16 August 2007
(20 May 2007)
| We are sad to report the death on Saturday 19
May at the age of 85 of Mrs Joan Loring, a lady whom all residents
and many visitors to Talland Bay will know. Joan was truly a caring
person and an absolute pillar of the local community. She had been active
right up until the day before her death - as ever concerned about the
many "oldies" of the Talland Bay area (many in fact much younger
than herself in recent years) for whom she was always concerned and
regularly visited, ran errands for, took shopping or transported to
hospitals or doctors' surgeries or whatever was needed. A mainstay of
Talland Church and until last year a Churchwarden and Treasurer of the
church and its Parochial Church Council, she had worshipped there for
very many years. Right up until her final days she also, along with
other faithful members of the small congregation, performed the more
mundane but equally vital roles of opening and closing the church on
a regular basis, arranging flowers, cleaning the church and setting
out and preparing the altar for services - indeed even on the day of
the Service in thanksgiving and memory for her, the church was decorated
with flowers which she had arranged shortly before her demise. When Joan first came to the Bay in the early 1960s, she and her husband farmed Hendersick Farm, but for the past 27 years she lived on the other side of the bay, at Falaise, with its glorious views of the sea and coast. Joan had lived for several years with the threat of death from an aneurism hanging over her but with her typical feisty, gutsy and pragmatic style had decided to live with it rather than risk the considerable uncertainties of both surgery and of MRSA, from which she had already suffered following a previous operation and which had nearly brought her life to an earlier close a few years ago. There was a private (family and close friends only) cremation on Friday 25 May and a Service of Thanksgiving and Remembrance at Talland Church was held on Sunday 27 May 2007 which was very well attended (hardly a vacant seat left in the church) which was testimony indeed to how well loved and valued Joan was in both the church community and more widely in the local community of Talland Bay. The service commenced with a letter written by Joan to be read out at the service and as her daughters testified this was characteristic of how Joan left every part of her affairs in apple-pie order, so easing the burden on them. Our condolences go to daughters Jane and Sally and their families. Bob Tarr, webmaster - and friend |
(5 May 07) Sat-Nav blindness reaches Talland Bay? Drivers blindly following their sat-nav equipment's instructions and getting stuck in narrow lanes has become a common occurence in neighbouring Polperro, but the disease may now have spread - a Toyota 4x4 became stuck fast in the upper part of Bridals Lane making the lane impassable even to pedestrians until it is cleared. Bridals Lane is a no-through road leading to just two or three properties and the upper section has bollards and is clearly so narrow as to be just a footpath.
What price Outstanding Natural Beauty?
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| How many
more in the AONB*? *Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
It has come to our attention that planning permission was granted in 2003 by Caradon District Council for 93 "lodge style caravans" to be located on land at Killigarth Holiday Park (John Fowler Holidays Ltd). This permission was later (Dec 2004) modified to 71 twin unit Lodges in lieu of 93 lodges (49 twin and 44 single). The orginal pp was for "lodge style caravans" whilst the revised one is for "Lodges" - so has permission for permanent holiday lodges now been granted? A very different proposition? | It is not clear exactly
where these holiday lodges are to be located, but it is believed that
the static caravans currently located on the field adjacent to Sand Hill
will be replaced by some of these holiday lodges, which are currently
being marketed for prices between about £100,000 and £130,000
(and annual service charges of around £2500). There looks to be
the probability that these holiday lodges will be distributed throughout
the field north of Sand Hill, whereas the current caravans are only around
two of the sides of the field. No neighbour consultations appear to have been carried out in respect of these applications and, so far, even avid Cornish Times readers cannot recall seeing Public Notices in the newspaper, nor, it seems, were any public notices displayed in the lanes around the fields |
www.talland.org - newspage - latest update: 27 March 2008