Enriching Cornwall's Diverse Culture ; Letters

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WHEN Tommy Bray (letter, December 1) was about 40 Richard Trevithick invented the rail engine and the motor car. By the time he was about 80 the Wonderful Railway allegedly run by God, with the help of Sir Arthur Quiller Couch, Sylvanus Trevail and various artists and writers like R M Ballantyne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Stanhope Forbes, was marketing Cornwall as being different, exotic, mysterious and magical. It was also diluting that distinctiveness.

Many things have happened between Tommy's 80th birthday and his advance to wise old age - he must be about 190 by now, I guess. Some have been good, some bad. One with deep moral resonance is that, after a battle lasting 100 years (but a snippet of the Bray lifespan!) the Cornish have won the right to be able to speak their native language, share it with others (no matter where they come from) and offer it to their children as a cultural gift for the future.

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Enriching Cornwall's Diverse Culture ; Letters

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