Diana Wild   Oil    £140

Yvonne Burdekin   Pastel     £150

Bobby Parker  Acrylic    £65

Rolf George   Oil     £150

Most of the team enjoying a coffee, kindly provided by Fiona and Clive, at the Harbour Lights cafe.

Some of the features needed repair, following the visit to Coverack by Storm Bert.

The graph shows the rainfall recorded in millimetres, during each month of 2022 and 2023.  The total rainfall for 2023 was 1,229 mm, compared with 819 mm in 2022.
Although February and June were very dry months , if you thought 2023 was an unusually wet year, you were right!

Big Santa, with reindeer transport, being secured in place by members of the team.

The helicopter being lifted into position.

Resting on the rocks near Coverack beach

Photograph at 12:04

The scaffolding was removed on 27th February 2023.
Now the church walls have been repainted too.

Children from Coverack School come carrying their lanterns to sing outside Granville for Tricia Bruce. Tricia watches and listens in the upstairs window.

The younger children from Coverack School singing carols and Christmas songs, watched by a large audience.

Hugh is paying tribute to five ladies, Anne, Wendy, Georgia, Verna (behind Hugh), and Hilary (unwell). Over many years they have helped to make the Coverack Christmas Tree Night a success.  Nick Sturmey looks on as the lights are all lit.

Led by conductor Ian Edwards, members of Illumination Brass played carols through the evening, adding to the festive atmosphere.

Hugh Richards with Granddaughter Bryher visiting Father Christmas.  Hugh encouraged children to come to see Father Christmas and to tell him loudly what they wanted as a  Christmas gift.

Coverack Christmas lights after the switch on, showing a good crowd gathering to enjoy the occasion.

Making sure that the tree will be safe.
Charles, Nick and Dale at work.

Members of the team  Richard, Ben, David, Hugh, Colin, Simon and James
Ben Richards brought the tree down from Lanarth with his tractor and trailer.

L-R   Ian, Andy, John, Terry, Simon, Ian, Richard D and Richard M
Meet  on Friday morning, 18th November, to make more progress.

Work successfully completed today, despite a soaking shower:
two Christmas Trees in front of Greystones, the  Juggling Dolphins, The Mermaid,
and the new feature by the Loft.

Putting in the bulbs on the boat on 9th November
Simon, Ian B, Ian R, James, and Andy

The team began putting up the poles along Mill Road  on Saturday 5th November.
The features are being added, as time and weather permit.

After extensive work improving the sewage system, the charity car park is having its top layer of tarmac.

The surfacing was finished today, the marking of parking spaces still remains to be done, before it is back in use.

It is only possible to collect the boulders for a few hours around the time of low tide.
Loading the massive rocks safely into the dumper trucks takes a lot of skill.

Here are the four men who drive the two swing shovels and the two dumpers.
The incoming tide today stopped them from from bringing the big granite boulders up the beach.  18th August

The rocks are brought in on the barge from Falmouth and dropped into the sea at high tide. As the tide falls, the barge moves out, away from the  beach.
As the tide recedes one of two big swing shovels loads the rocks on to two dumper trucks, taking turns to carry the rocks up the beach.

As the two dumper truck drivers bring the rocks up the beach, the other  swing shovel driver carefully places the rocks at the foot of the new sea wall.

Most of Mill Beach remains open to the public during the work on the sea wall.

The granite boulders will be collected by the beach-based swing shovels at low tide.
The stone will then be taken up the beach, for use in the new sea wall.