Lamorna in Culture
Lamorna has been immortalised in the song Way Down to Lamorna, about a wayward husband receiving his comeuppance from his wife. The song is beloved of many Cornish singers.
The author Derek Tangye lived in Lamorna where he wrote his famous books "The Minack Chronicles". There is still a piece of land called "Oliver Land" which is only accessible from Lamorna that he left after his death as a wildlife sanctuary.
Lamorna Cove was the title of a poem by W. H. Davies published in 1929.
The name of Lamorna's pub, The Wink, alludes to smuggling, 'the wink' being a signal that contraband could be obtained. The pub is the subject of a novel by Martha Grimes, entitled The Lamorna Wink. The interior contains an important collection of maritime artefacts, including the nameplate of the Destroyer Warspite.
The Lamorna Pottery was founded in 1947 by Christopher James Ludlow (known as Jimmy) and Derek Wilshaw.
The Lamorna Arts Festival was launched in 2009 to celebrate the original Lamorna Colony and today's Lamorna art community.
Lamorna was the village used in the novel The Memory Garden by Rachel Hore.
Lamorna was the location used for the shooting of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 thriller Straw Dogs.
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