After visiting Boconnoc, we really wrung the last of the daylight out of the day by going to Lanreath, a nearby village where Ærchie, my Australian email pal, had more forebears.
Unlike Boconnoc, Lanreath really did turn out to be a village, and when we drove into the village and stopped by the church, in front of us we could see the village's very fine pub, the Punch Bowl Inn, which is on one of the three sides of the T-junction at the centre of the village.
Across the road from the Punch Bowl Inn is the Post Office, which is a modern building. Part of the village's museum building can be seen behind it.
The museum was closed by the time I was wandering around the village, but I did speak to the museum curator, and he was able to give me some interesting information about some of Lanreath's emigrants who chose to make their lives in Australia. The red, white and blue flags were common all over England during June, due to the celebration of the Queen's Golden Jubilee.
If you follow the road up the hill past the museum, you will come to one of the village's two pumps on the right hand side of the road. (I've shown it on the left of this screen!) If you then turn around and face back down the hill, the picture on the right is what the street looks like.
Moving back down the hill, you can see the corner of the museum (just look at how bright the street light is: it really was getting gloomy!) with the Post Office behind it and the church tower visible behind that. The Punch Bowl Inn is on the right.
The next two pictures were taken from a little further down the street. The one on the right was taken later than the one on the left, but at just the moment when the very last rays of sun broke through the clouds and caught the church tower. Moments later, the sun had set.
Taking the street to the left of the Punch Bowl Inn and looking back up the hill is this view of the church, which occupies another of the corners created by the T-junction at the centre of the village. No doubt the owner of the tractor was ensconced within the Punch Bowl Inn, which is just across the road!
Here is the church sign, which identifies this church as St.Marnarch's Parish Church.
To the left is the south porch of the church, while to the right I have shown the west door of the church, which is just behind the tractor canopy in the picture of the church tower.
This cross, which is the Lanreath War Memorial, is located within the church yard and can in fact be seen when looking down the village street from near the museum.
Looking away from the church and down the hill past the parked tractor there are more cottages.
On the other side of the road is Well Cottage, where the second of the village pumps is located.
This pump has the advantage of being recessed into the wall of Well Cottage, so it is more protected from the elements than the other village pump. I was also much taken by the notice governing the conduct of persons using the pump!
This line of cottages is on the same side of the road as Well Cottage. I think the gable seen behind the cottages at the right hand end is the end of the Punch Bowl Inn. This picture was certainly taken looking back up the road in that direction.
Finally, you may have thought that the Post Office occupied the third corner at the T-junction in the centre of the village, but the Post Office is actually a little higher up the street, while the corner is occupied by a small area of park in which there is a maypole.
The maypole was erected at Lanreath as a Millennium project and this stone forms the base of the maypole.
