Like thousands of us, this writer delved into her family ancestry in lockdown –and her discoveries led to a living history getaway
Photograph: Sally Howard/The GuardianPhotograph: Sally Howard/The Guardiantiny miner’s cottage with an ancient-sounding name loomed large during my suburban childhood. My father was born in Bojewyan Stennack , a granite one-up, one-down in Cornwall, at the close of the second world war. His mother, Virginia, grew up here, steps from the foaming Atlantic coast, with her seven brothers and sisters and a mother who spent her life in widows’ blacks.
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