Truro

But of the great and gracious change, the reality of which his whole life afterwards testified, Billy Bray shall presently speak himself.

It is only necessary for us to state that he was born at Twelveheads, a village in the parish of Quay near Truro, Cornwall, on June 1, 1794.

The village then consisted of only a few thatched cottages, inhabited by tinners, but which had its humble Methodist chapel, where his paternal grandfather worshipped, and which he had helped to build.

He was one of the old Methodists, for he joined the then persecuted and despised people when Mr Wesley first visited Cornwall.

the reverend joseph dinick who has kindly supplied several pleasant reminiscences for this edition says i imagine i can see him now when he sang the following verse and the tune is yet fresh in my memory come let us rally round the cross despising earthly pleasure and gladly reckon all things lost for Christ, our heavenly treasure.

Rejoice and sing, the Lord is King, and we'll repeat the story, we'll make the heavenly arches ring when we get home to glory.

Mr Robbins informs me that at a chapel anniversary, Billy once said, I went into Truro to buy a frock for the little maid and coming home I felt very happy and got catching up my heels a little bit and I danced the frock out of the basket.

When I came home, Joey said, William, where's the frock? I said, I don't know.

Boscawen came from a Cornwall gentry family.

His father was the first Viscount Falmouth, giving him access to both naval service and Parliament as an MP for Truro.

He entered the Navy in childhood, rising through the ranks during a period when Britain was turning its attention toward overseas trade routes and European rivalry.

But it was his command of the fleet that fought at the Battle of Lagos on the eighteenth of August seventeen fifty-nine that truly etched him into naval history.

Residents voluntarily surrendered their ancestral island because survival became impossible.

Across Britain, the flood of Truro silenced an entire valley for commerce and culture, sparking a symbol of Welsh resistance in modern politics.

And yet, beyond the battles and disasters, everyday traditions endured.

The Welsh not may have stigmatised language, but also highlighted how policy could erode identity.

Well, there's a statement there.

Also Ian saying, Alex, ex-Argyle player, sorry, also ex-Argyle player Luke Jepcot scored a crack of a Truro City on Tuesday again.

Leicester City in the cup match.

Maybe Freddie should have gone to Truro this season instead of Gateshead.

Well, you're going to go where you're going to get an opportunity and a knock on the door.

Any luck, Mike, with Martin Barlow? That's a good segue.