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1992: Pirate FM launched, the first commercial station in Cornwall. 1993: Tate St Ives art gallery in St Ives, opened; 1993: The joint Cornwall and Devon bid for Objective One funds fails because of Devon's high GDP.; [47] ITV Westcountry starts broadcasting. 1995: Wreck of the Maria Asumpta, a 19th-century sailing ship.
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Sources diverge leading up to the time of King Arthur, with Caradoc placed either during the time of Arthur (as in the Welsh Triads, and later tradition), soon before Gorlois (Carew's Survey of Cornwall), or before his brother Dionotus as Caradocus in the Historia Regum Britanniae, while the Book of Baglan only keeps Gorlois, but gives him an entirely different set of ancestors.
In Cornwall there was a resurgence of monument construction and changes in ritual and burial customs in the Early Bronze Age, [184] [189] along with the emergence of new pottery styles such as Trevisker Ware, a distinctive regional pottery style that originated in Cornwall c. 2000 BCE and continued to be produced for almost a millennium. [190]
Cornwall Council, formerly Cornwall County Council until 2009, is a unitary authority based at Lys Kernow in Truro. The Isles of Scilly are governed by the sui generis Council of the Isles of Scilly based in Hugh Town, [132] [133] and have been administered by their own unitary authority since 1890.
The visit was to open the Royal Cornwall Agricultural Show. The Prince gave 2 silver cups: one for the best bull and another for the best horse. [13] 1920: The chiming clock was added as a memorial to the men of the town who died in the Great War. 1928: St Columb Football team win the Cornwall Junior Cup, beating Delabole (3-1)