TWO HUNDRED year Tradition.

ITS TRADITIONAL SINCE 1803!!!

So imagine my surprise to find last week in the West Briton newspaper July 12 2007, an article by Frank Ruhrmund on a book “A Strange and Unquenchable Race: Cornwall and the Cornish in Quotations”.

One of the quotes taken from the book was an item from the Royal Cornwall Gazette in 1803, like over two hundred years ago.

Which read:

“Penzance is a very different place from the commonly received opinion. We have cards for the sedentary, books for the lounger, balls for the light-heeled, clubs for the convivial, picnics for the gay and thoughtless.”

PICNICS FOR THE GAY …in 1803 …in Cornwall?!

Bargain… So our informal Gay PRIDE Beach Day Picnic is simply following a tradition in Cornwall that is over two hundred years old!

Well it made me smile!