chrisdolley ([info]chrisdolley) wrote,
@ 2008-04-29 12:21:00
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Entry tags:cornish, cornwall, fca, humor, independence, revolution

Free Cornish Army Picture
Now I have a scanner that works I can at last post some non-digital photos. Here's an old black and white photo from 1974.



The picture shows the victorious Free Cornish Army taking control of Launceston police station. For those unfamiliar with the Great Cornish Uprising of 1974, the story's here. Launceston was the first town to fall to the FCA. Truro followed an hour later.

I'm the one on the left and, as you can see, my uniform owed as much to Batman as it did to Che Guevara. Ah, the seventies when even the freedom fighters wore capes.



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[info]inannajones
2008-04-29 11:12 am UTC (link)
Just read the blog story. That is fantastically superb. :D

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[info]david_devereux
2008-04-29 11:48 am UTC (link)
Thanks for posting that, Chris. That story always raises a smile.

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[info]chrisdolley
2008-04-29 01:43 pm UTC (link)
Hi Dave!

Tell me it's not true you've given up your exorcist job?

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[info]david_devereux
2008-04-29 02:25 pm UTC (link)
It is, I'm afraid. I'm still helping out as a backroom boy, but I officially retired from field work a couple of months ago to give me more time for making stuff up.

We should have beer next time you're over.

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Beer
[info]chrisdolley
2008-04-29 02:40 pm UTC (link)
Definitely.

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[info]diamondreads
2008-04-29 01:42 pm UTC (link)
What a fun thing to do! I love it!

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[info]saare_snowqueen
2008-04-29 03:40 pm UTC (link)
That is totally flamboyant -no wonder you became a writer - wonderful.

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[info]pgmcc
2008-04-29 07:32 pm UTC (link)
Great picture and I enjoyed your demands. You are probably familiar with the Irish Proclaimation of Independence read by Padraig Pearse on Easter Monday, 1916, outside the General Post Office in Dulbin.

It may have been fortuitous for you that you didn't find out who to inform in the British Government. All the signatories to the Irish Declaration were subsequently executed by the British Government.

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mebion kernow
(Anonymous)
2008-04-29 08:14 pm UTC (link)
ah those were the days ,you would be shot today.

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Cool quote
(Anonymous)
2008-05-09 03:39 pm UTC (link)

When you don't know what you are doing, do it neatly.


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