Cornish

And I think it is grade two listed, if I'm right.

And I know Charles Henderson, I mean, he was quite a prominent Cornish historian and he lived there once upon a time.

But Penn Mount, I didn't realise it was so long ago, but it opened as a crematorium in 1956.

And I think there's 28 acres there.

But it was, yeah, a lovely day, a lovely send off for Eric.

One thing I did do, actually, I nearly forgot, on our R.J. Bray Facebook page, I did put a photo there of the outside of the chapel there at Lanson, but also a couple of photos of Code Screen Chapel, plus a little video of what it's like inside, just to show you.

I mean, for those of you that are abroad, it's another classic Cornish chapel.

It just shows what they're like here.

Chapter four, Jack the Giant Killer.

There was once a stout Cornish lad named Jack who had trained himself in every sort of sport.

He could wrestle and throw and swim better than any other lad in the country.

Indeed, there were few, even among the men, who could equal him in strength and skill.

There he lay without sound or motion and seeing that he was dead Jack left him where he lay and swam back to the mainland.

When the people learned that the giant was dead and would trouble them no more they went wild with joy.

Jack was hailed as a hero and a belt was given him on which were letters of gold that read This is the gallant Cornishman who killed the giant Cormoran.

And now the lad was no longer called plain Jack but Jack the giant killer.

He's one of those.

And yet he has a Cornish name because he was also a proud Cornishman.

Absolutely, yeah.

And born in Moffat, Scotland, just over the border and to the left in Dumfriesshire.

He had this megaphone.

Um, he was born in Cornwall, ironically, and he would sing these Welsh and Cornish songs from his megaphone as he got people out of the building.

And of course, people hate fire drills, and they hate doing all this stuff.

But anyways, and he would tell all of his employees, "In an emergency, no matter what chaos is happening around you, no matter what anyone tells you, leave your offices, go down the stairwells, leave the building." So when they-- He had always said that he thought there would be another attack, and then on September 11th, we had one.

And when the North Tower was hit, the Port Authority announced over the South Tower speaker system, "Do not leave the building.

The area is secure." And he ignored them, and he said, "You know what? We're getting out of here, and we're evacuating." Not in that same language, but you get the point.

And so he gets all of these people out, and he was singing his Cornish songs on his megaphone.

After he had gotten over 2,000 people out, he went back and he looked for survivors, but he called his wife first and he said, "Stop crying.

Well, remarkable.

And also you've hit the front page of all the sports pages that you're now gonna be an investor in the Cornish Pirates down in Penzance.

Tell us a bit about that then.

Would I be insulting you, Bill, to say that, that, that you might remember like the days when, um, Cornish players who were actually playing for Cornish Pirates were actually turning out, uh, for England? So I think probably go back to people like Stack Stevens and, and, uh, a- and that era.

There were, there were players that were playing for Pirates that were playing at, at top level at the same time.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah

... to fourth division.

very – no one can figure it out.

It's got some – maybe they think – I think they think of the original, like – Spanish people, because I think it's got roots in, like, Welsh and, like, Gaelic in Scotland and, like, ancient Cornish, which has now disappeared.

I think it's the original people that were just sort of pushed to the edge.

I think you're right.