History
Cornwall For Ever
Situated on the banks of the Tamar, Landulph and the other Tamar Valley parishes are the most easterly in Cornwall. Cornwall is a land separated from the rest of England both physically and culturally — a land with its own unique identity, history, language, heritage, and customs.
The original inhabitants of this land were the Ancient Britons, part of the wider Celtic world. The area covered by today’s Cornwall and Devon, with parts of Somerset and Dorset, formed the kingdom of Dumnonia. The land west of the Tamar (today’s Cornwall) was known as Cornubia, inhabited by the Cornovii tribe, a subgroup of the Dumnonii.
History of 1914/18 War Memorial Clock
The School clock is elderly and in need of restoration.
At the end of the First World War, a parish memorial committee discussed a suitable Memorial to those who had served. A granite stone was suggested, but at the time plans were in hand to build a new school. Mrs. Olive Prideaux (Pauline Rutherford’s grandmother), a teacher at the old school, suggested a clock at the new school would be a fitting Memorial.
The general consensus was this was a good idea, and the building plans were altered to incorporate a clock tower and a chamber for the weights between the two classrooms. The school was opened on 19th November 1923; this can be seen on the inscription below the clock today.
